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Old 08-07-2014, 06:30 PM
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http://www.latimes.com/world/middlee...807-story.html

Food and water on it's way.
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Old 08-07-2014, 06:33 PM
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Big sloooooooow moving objects do the drop's, not F16's
I'm sure you have a point you're trying to make, care to elaborate?
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Old 08-07-2014, 06:36 PM
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We should ally ourselves with Kurdistan. First step - create a united Kurd republic.
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We should ally ourselves with Kurdistan. First step - create a united Kurd republic.
Well that would then create friction between us and Turkey though i do agree with you in principle.
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I'm sure you have a point you're trying to make, care to elaborate?
The slow moving targets are our boy's... They need to clear the way for them by bombing the shit out jihadist fuck sticks prior to the drop.
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Old 08-07-2014, 06:57 PM
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The slow moving targets are our boy's... They need to clear the way for them by bombing the shit out jihadist fuck sticks prior to the drop.
Here you go JB. I am with you on this BTW.

Airstrikes on ISIS Militants Have Begun, Kurds and Iraqis Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/wo...-say.html?_r=0
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Old 08-07-2014, 07:38 PM
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Hmmmm, Pentagon says no, it wasn't us.

"However, amid widespread reports that U.S. airstrikes had begun, Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon’s press secretary, said that “no such action has been taken.” Iraqi officials said the government had sent its own aircraft to aid Kurdish pesh merga forces." WaPo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z1
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Old 08-07-2014, 07:47 PM
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The slow moving targets are our boy's... They need to clear the way for them by bombing the shit out jihadist fuck sticks prior to the drop.
Lockheed AC130s are indeed slow moving.


Some of 'em even carry M.O.A.B.s.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOAB
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Old 08-07-2014, 08:00 PM
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If we were to lose a C-130 on a humanitarian mission, we'd have a green light from EVERYONE (except Putin) to attack ISIS extremely.

It's even possible that ISIS will figure this out, and not take the bait.
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President just announced he has authorized air strikes:

To protect US personnel and to prevent ISIS from wiping out the
trapped minorities.

Still needs boots on the ground to save the people on the mountain?

The Kurds whom we were depending on claimed that ISIS had better equipment - largely Americans left by the fast fleeing Iraqi army.
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