Posted on 12/31/2019 10:28:55 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco.
This ain’t no fooling around.
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey.
I ain’t got time for that now!
> Rules of Engagement come to mind.
Fire one warning shot 12” above center mass.
Repeat as necessary.
All I have read currently is:
Iran Backed Leader Of Attack On US Embassy Was Obama’s Guest At White House According To Report [Developing Speculation]
You can actually WATCH Colin Powell lie to the camera on this documentary...saying he can't recall certain things he said to the UN dozens of times. It's embarrassing.
Do yourself a favor...and if you don't come away with a clear understanding that without Bush there never would have been an ISIS - well - all I can say is we didn't watch the same documentary.
Bush kept Iraq “relatively secure” through the brute force of 160,000 US troops. With “contractors” and civilian support, plus a few thousand Brits and other “token” forces, likely over 200,000 total. Thousands of Americans killed, 10’s of thousands wounded and maimed, over 2 Trillion dollars spent. Many, if not most, saw the folly and warned GWB not to occupy Iraq and not to remove the Baathist government. It was never going to be sustainable. He did it anyway. Recognizing history and dealing with current reality are not mutually exclusive. At this point, we have to look at what it is going to take to “save” Iraq. Is it worth a third Iraq war? War with Iran? The long term implications for the region are massive, yet the rest of the world has remained firmly in the “you broke it, you bought it” camp, and our only significant ally, GB, is highly unlikely to return to Iraq. The Saudis and GCC countries should be crapping their pants and mobilizing forces, but they are silent. By all appearances, we are all alone in this.
Trump’s choices are likely just two. He can continue his policy of “getting us out of endless wars” and watch it burn, or he can commit enough troops to stave off this current crisis, and hope it lasts through the election. The latter is most likely, in order to appease both sides and deny the left political talking points. In the political calculus, another war is not an option.
I was talking about a movie where marines, protecting an embassy, fired into an armed crowd of protesters.
Can’t we just “shoot to kill”? Please?
Notice the mongrels never raid the Russian compounds anywhere in the world?
Ahhh - now it makes sense
[Moronic. You thinkm
A: That they have no air assets involved.
B: that a full company of Marineinfantry in a defensive position is a sitting duck for the Iraqi army.
Both are laughable.
LOL, go back to gaming.]
The Marines aren’t facing the Taliban or even the Iraqi insurgents. It’s potentially the entire Iraqi military and paramilitary gendarmerie. In essence, this could turn out to be a replay of the Iranian Embassy situation in 1979. It might help to hint to the Iraqi PM that he will personally be targeted with a JDAM if things go south, perhaps while he’s having dinner with his family.
What’s your take on Iran... what’s next?
Thank you! :-)
Also, President Saddam Hussein was tried and has been hanged; the rape rooms and places where they ground up childrens’ appendages for torture are no longer in use as far as we know. Tons of uranium has been shipped out of Iraq; biological weapons precursors have been dealt with. Some things have improved.
Thank you. Yes, President Bush did a great deal of good, including reminding the rest of the world that the USA can win wars, after Vietnam.
“That means the Marines might have to deal with howitzers, helicopter gunships and F-16 strafing runs and air-to-ground munitions like JDAM’s and Hellfires”
Like I said, go back to gaming. If you think the Iraqi military is going to menace the embassy force with howitzers, gunships, and F-16s strafing and dropping JDAMs, you are delusional.
They barely have the capability to make it to the chowhall.
And what capability they do have will never be turned against our embassy. That would be -instant- death under a swarm of Hornets, F-15s and F-16s with actual skilled pilots, and they are -well- aware of that factoid.
There is not enough military power in all of Iraq to take a fortress manned by 100 Marines.
No. Happy New Year, S!
Ah, love hearing from you! Happy New Year!
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