Posted on 11/23/2015 1:39:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
France began air strikes on Sunday against the Islamic State in Syria, a stronghold for the militant group. On the same day of the French air strikes, the U.S. military destroyed 116 ISIS fuel trucks Sunday in Abu Kamal, in the Euphrates River basin near the Syrian-Iraq border.
FOX News A military official with knowledge of the strikes said that recently-arrived U.S. Air Force A-10 Warthogs from Incirlik Air Base, in Turkey, carried out the strikes on the fuel farm.
The official said previously the fuel trucks were off limits to U.S. military strike aircraft. When asked if the Paris attacks would bring about a change in the U.S. military’s rules of engagement, the official said that the truck drivers were warned first before the bombs fell.
“We dropped leaflets, warning the drivers to scatter,†said an official who had been briefed on the strike. “Next we strafed the area [with 30mm cannons] before the dropping bombs†from the warthogs.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/11/obama-regime-ordered-us-military-to-warn-isis-fuel-truck-drivers-before-bombing-their-trucks/#MLU3buwj2qmmjaC5.99
I am glad he was more worried about the safety of the drivers than he was for the safety of our pilots. /DrippingSarc
Obama has demonstrated repeatedly that he has no problem with collateral damage from his drone strikes.
Someone with special ties owns a factory that produces fuel trucks.
bttt
What?!!! This is for real?!!! Then blow the trucks sky high!!!! Show the enemy that we are willing to annihilate them, that will get a surrender!!!
What were the fuel truck drivers doing when they weren’t driving trucks?
Treason pure and simple. The liberal MSM is all going “Wasn’t he nice in warning so more lives aren’t lost?”
Maybe they would have a problem finding drivers if you blew up only 2 or 3 of them. Problem solved. Saves bombs. (WWTD?)
Bingo.
A 30-45 minute warning via leaflets gives even those lazy b******s plenty of time to set up their AA guns and missiles in anticipation of a low level air attack.
I pray to the Lord Almighty that none of our brave pilots are captured alive by these vermin. We all know what will happen.
One day the owners of the mainstream media need to prosecuted for treason and aiding and abetting the enemy with their leftist propaganda. Then these out of touch multimillionaires need to be jailed for life and all assets be distributed to the Veterans and their families!!!!
Not a way to fight ISIS.
They should have followed the order, but printed the fliers in a language the locals can’t identify let alone understand. Like if the Muslims dropped warning fliers about a Jihadist attack on say,(Pick a favorite small mid-America city) in Arabic. OOPS!
Letting ISIS prepare and putting American service personnel in DANGER
Now Obama’s DOJ is looking at bringing the drivers to the USA, because they have no livelihood any longer.
If you look at the bombing video thread you can see what might have been waaaaay earlier. It is so, so bad that the Ego Maniac in Chief only did this because he realized that he’d been supplanted as a world leader by Putin and even the femmy Hollande. He looks pathetic now as if he didn’t before.
Isis does NOT give mercy to any of their innocent victims! Why should anybody give them a break! Quit feeling sorry for our enemies.
Well...
We now know it was a bad idea to elect an America hating, foreign born, enemy agent as president.
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