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U.S. Prepares to Fly Deeper into Syrian Civil War
Time ^ | July 27, 2015 | Mark Thompson

Posted on 07/27/2015 10:00:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

ISIS is the target, but U.S. pilots could also be at risk

MORE Shirtless Marines March in ‘Silkies’ to Raise Suicide Awareness Bowe Bergdahl Caught Up in California Pot Raid Russian Bombers Buzzing U.S. Unlikely to Carry Nukes Bobbi Kristina Brown Autopsy Shows No Significant Injuries NBC News 'Not Quitters': Families of Missing Teens Plead for Help NBC News I Joined ISIS and It Ruined My Life: Captured Militant NBC News RECOMMENDED FOR YOU Why the New Case Against Bill Cosby Is Different Why the New Case Against Bill Cosby Is Different Donald Trump Hits the Limits of Celebrity Donald Trump Hits the Limits of Celebrity Watch 100 Years of Classic Italian Beauty in Less Than 2 Minutes Watch 100 Years of Classic Italian Beauty in Less Than 2 Minutes 15 Things You Were Taught In School That Are Total Lies Promoted 15 Things You Were Taught In School That Are Total Lies The U.S. flew “no-fly zones” over northern and southern Iraq for more than a decade before the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. U.S. warplanes kept Iraqi aircraft out of the sky, and targeted Iraqi air-defense systems that threatened to shoot. Now, along with neighboring Turkey, the U.S. is planning to launch something similar over a stretch of northern Syria.

Eliminating Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria along a strip of the Syrian-Turkish border is the key goal, opening up a safe haven for tens of thousands of Syrians displaced by the country’s four-year-old civil war that has killed more than 200,000. Whether the move hastens the ouster of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad—or leads to the shootdown and possible capture or death of an American pilot—remains unknowable.

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1 posted on 07/27/2015 10:00:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

That excerpt isn’t making sense. Have I just had a stroke?


2 posted on 07/27/2015 10:14:44 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What is that crap?


3 posted on 07/27/2015 10:18:55 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: DesertRhino

No....you have not///


4 posted on 07/27/2015 10:19:52 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Looks like someone spoofed you and you failed to proofread.


5 posted on 07/27/2015 10:21:10 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Have the mod fix it..


6 posted on 07/27/2015 10:22:47 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: MinorityRepublican

[MORE Shirtless Marines March in ‘Silkies’ to Raise Suicide Awareness Bowe Bergdahl Caught Up in California Pot Raid Russian Bombers Buzzing U.S. Unlikely to Carry Nukes Bobbi Kristina Brown Autopsy Shows No Significant Injuries NBC News ‘Not Quitters’: Families of Missing Teens Plead for Help NBC News I Joined ISIS and It Ruined My Life: Captured Militant NBC News RECOMMENDED FOR YOU Why the New Case Against Bill Cosby Is Different Why the New Case Against Bill Cosby Is Different Donald Trump Hits the Limits of Celebrity Donald Trump Hits the Limits of Celebrity Watch 100 Years of Classic Italian Beauty in Less Than 2 Minutes Watch 100 Years of Classic Italian Beauty in Less Than 2 Minutes 15 Things You Were Taught In School That Are Total Lies Promoted 15 Things You Were Taught In School That Are Total Lies]

What? No Kitchen Sink?


7 posted on 07/27/2015 10:30:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is that Esperanto or Gibberish? I’m effluent inya igpa atinla.


8 posted on 07/27/2015 10:36:54 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can’t read this and look at my watch at the same time!


9 posted on 07/28/2015 1:28:01 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Would you like to try again?

Preview can be your friend.


10 posted on 07/28/2015 2:26:34 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaned our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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