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U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 11/20/15 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 11/20/2015 3:33:06 AM PST by markomalley

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To: Graybeard58
To anyone who wants to tell me that we shouldn't sink to the terrorists level. Yes, we should. Fight fire with fire.

That accepts a false premise. If we were to make our hospitals and churches into weapons storage facilities or military headquarters, they would become legitimate military targets. When a minaret goes ballistic from secondary explosions, that wasn't a mosque - it was a strategic target.

Unrestricted warfare against militarily important targets is exactly what is needed.

41 posted on 11/20/2015 6:06:42 AM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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To: markomalley

isn’t it obvious Obama is furthering the expansion of the CALIPHATE....
he has done MORE to spread radical jihad then the muslim brotherhood or al queda or isis...


42 posted on 11/20/2015 6:36:32 AM PST by zzwhale
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To: SW6906
If we had fought WWII like this, it would still be going on....

We would be speaking German.

43 posted on 11/20/2015 7:14:15 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: markomalley
At some point in the future, we'll look back at all the signs we missed or refused to see that might have prevented what happened.

This is one of those signs our future selves will look back at and wonder wtf drug we were on that made US so blissfully blind to the human caused disaster we allowed to take place.

44 posted on 11/20/2015 7:18:05 AM PST by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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To: markomalley
Sorry about the duplicate post a little while ago. I searched FR and didn't find it. Pilot error on my part.

I wonder what "the usual" rate of ordnance expenditure is. I believe it probably depends on the missions. If you have aircraft that go on planned strikes - take out this infrastructure or that - they should probably expend 100% of their air to ground ordnance. You plan it, fly it, drop it, done.

If they're putting up aircraft on patrol in areas to look for targets of opportunity, or to be on-call to ground forces expecting contact and needing CAS... Ok, I would expect a lower utilization rate. Sometimes the targets/contact just isn't going to happen. But the apparent 25% use rate (maybe even lower if the 75% number was an aggregate of planned and target-of-opportunity missions) seems very low. Tells me they need a new plan. We're not putting them up where they can find those targets of opportunity, not putting ground forces in on real ISIS positions... Of course, with obama and his cohorts in crime that is probably the intent/strategy: make a lot of noise, do no real damage to his friends.

45 posted on 11/20/2015 7:26:21 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Neoliberalnot

He’s an Islamic enemy agent working undercover. I’ve been saying this since 2009 when on his first day in office he tried to free prisoners from Gitmo. That was his #1 priority above everything else, the cat was out of the bag as far as I was concerned when I heard about that and I’ve been proven right ever since. Democraps in all their idiocy elected the enemy into the nations highest office, not once but twice. Now he is feeling the stress of trying to avoid being completely blatant in his support of ISIS, so he makes pretend he is fighting them, but he really isn’t. It’s like telling someone to go out and shoot rattlesnakes in the desert and instead they shoot into the sand deliberately missing while they look over their shoulder to see if you are looking. That’s him exactly and I predict that pretty soon he is going to slip up and reveal who he truly is, the stress is going to get to him and he is going to slip up. He is going to say or do something so incredibly outrageous and revealing that Congress is going to come under a tremendous amount of heat for allowing this enemy to stay in office for so long and do so much damage.


46 posted on 11/20/2015 7:28:22 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Boardwalk
The rules of engagement leave more civilians for isis to torture and kill, and more isis to torture and kill until is is can migrate to Europe and the USA.

While Obama supports BLM (black lives matter), his real love is MLM (Muslim Lives Matter). CLM (Christian Lives Matter), not so much.

47 posted on 11/20/2015 7:29:04 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: wetgundog

“As if it is already not apparent, Obama is a incompetent, idiotic fool. I hate this man-child.”

I totally agree. I so much hate it when people give this moron credit for some grand evil “plan” to conquer the country and the world. Obama is not capable of making any sort of plan other than his next golf game or his next BuFu with one of his boyfriends. I seriously believe he is aroused every day in late morning for an appearance for protocol’s sake, then he stumbles out in a drug-addled daze from last night’s debauchery, gets his photo taken and his handlers get him out of sight as quickly as possible.

Someone in another post mentioned his Russian “comrades”. I doubt he has any undercover ties with Russia. I think Putin, and most of the Russian people, despise this disgusting idiotic spider monkey at least half as much as I do.


48 posted on 11/20/2015 7:29:50 AM PST by Gideon300
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

The possibility of a strike on DC, except for ANC, no longer bothers me.


49 posted on 11/20/2015 7:37:56 AM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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To: zzwhale
Did Obama just say he's a Muslim (again)?
50 posted on 11/20/2015 7:46:32 AM PST by opentalk
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To: elpadre

You read my mind!


51 posted on 11/20/2015 7:54:41 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: wetgundog
Obama is a incompetent, ARROGANT idiotic fool
52 posted on 11/20/2015 8:04:16 AM PST by kcvl
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For later...


53 posted on 11/20/2015 8:11:44 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: kcvl

Not one incumbent A55 in congress will move to IMPEACH his sorry A55!
Congress is complicit, in not acting against Obie!

Time to clean House and Senate!


54 posted on 11/20/2015 8:19:38 AM PST by GOYAKLA (One wins, when getting more than even!)
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To: silverleaf; Red Badger

Daesh it is from now on! Or I’ll fall back on ISIS if I don’t remember Daesh.... Thanks for the info!


55 posted on 11/20/2015 8:25:19 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

His personal overseeing the strategy of his forces, worked
so well for him! /s


56 posted on 11/20/2015 8:26:42 AM PST by GOYAKLA (One wins, when getting more than even!)
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To: markomalley

These are long and dangerous missions that our pilots are flying over hostile territory where they are hated of course.

If these people are going to be sent to put their lives on the line it should be for a purpose not just a milk run.

Today, almost all the politicians are jumping on the band wagon to put “boots on the ground”, a stupid euphemism they don’t even understand. It is just more populist clap trap.

The idiot politicians are so willing to but American Mother’s Sons into the crucible without any idea of what it means or the objective. It is just something for the damn fools to say. I hate them. I hate them all.


57 posted on 11/20/2015 8:26:59 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: markomalley
This has been reported in the past about our pilots coming back with their bombs and missiles still on board.
58 posted on 11/20/2015 9:47:16 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: markomalley

Obama’s response was, “No, you don’t understand. I want no civilian casualties. Zero”

Well, Obama, thank you for announcing the strategy that ISIS should use to protect themselves: stake out a few women and children hostages who are easily visible around all facilities they don’t want bombed. (And now I also understand why you won’t share intelligence with Putin because he would have no such compunction against a bit of collateral damage.)


59 posted on 11/20/2015 9:48:58 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Graybeard58

EXACTLY! When it comes to combat, we have to be more efficient terrorists than ISIS until such time they are cinders!


60 posted on 11/20/2015 9:50:17 AM PST by austinaero
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