US Considers Air Strikes In Iraq (Update: Now authorized by Obama!) | |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 03:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Obama administration has been talking about the possibility of air strikes Other possible options include providing humanitarian support Ground troops not being considered, according to the White House Minority groups trapped by fighting after new ISIS offensive in northern Iraq The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 30405631 United States 08/07/2014 03:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why ??? to spread more zionism in Iraq ??? that's what happened first time around US Army invaded Muslims forced into zionist christianity churches built from destroyed Mosques zionism is a virus that needs eradicating ISIS is doing that in Iraq what's the problem ?? |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 03:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WELL IN THE LIVE PRESS CONFERENCE 10 MINUTES AGO HE SAID ALL MILITARY ACTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF THE TABLE... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 61280370 Thank you for the update All Caps. Hadn't heard about the press conference, gotcha! The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 04:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey CAPS, or anyone else, do you have a link to a video of the press conference today? I can only find one for last night The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 04:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why ??? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30405631 to spread more zionism in Iraq ??? that's what happened first time around US Army invaded Muslims forced into zionist christianity churches built from destroyed Mosques zionism is a virus that needs eradicating ISIS is doing that in Iraq what's the problem ?? Because in the eyes of the US, it's in a particularly inhumane fashion. No one likes to hear about children and elderly slowly dying of thirst, and everyone expects something to be done to stop it. The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 04:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like they're starting with air drops, then perhaps moving to air strikes. I have a feeling the air drops will be brutally intercepted once they hit the ground. [link to online.wsj.com] "The Obama administration is considering airstrikes against Islamic militants in northern Iraq in a move to protect American personnel in the city of Erbil as Islamic militants pose a growing threat to the country's Kurdish heartland, U.S. officials said. The administration also planned beginning Thursday night to send military aircraft to drop emergency aid into to members of the Yazidi religious minority, besieged on a northern Iraq mountainside by Sunni extremists." The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30405631 United States 08/07/2014 04:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | do you think Bush using depleted uranium bullets in Iraq was humane ??? do you think torture at Abu Gharib was humane ?? babies born deformed in Iraq from uranium who is the evil one here ??? the one using uranium or the one fighting against tyrannical zionism ??? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 60046684 Israel 08/07/2014 04:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why ??? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30405631 to spread more zionism in Iraq ??? that's what happened first time around US Army invaded Muslims forced into zionist christianity churches built from destroyed Mosques zionism is a virus that needs eradicating ISIS is doing that in Iraq what's the problem ?? wow... i never knew that there are such stuipd and egoistic american like you |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30405631 United States 08/07/2014 04:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | do you think Bush using depleted uranium bullets in Iraq was humane ??? do you think torture at Abu Gharib was humane ?? babies born deformed in Iraq from uranium who is the evil one here ??? the one using uranium or the one fighting against tyrannical zionism ??? would you like to see pics of deformed babies from Bush's uranium bullets ??? don't lecture on inhumane til you clean out your own backyard |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 06:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Militants in Iraq Hit by Strikes, Kurds Say: [link to www.nytimes.com] The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 09:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And it's now happening. [link to abcnews.go.com] The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |
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(OP) User ID: 56101377 United States 08/07/2014 09:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.nytimes.com] "Once Mr. Obama made the decision to approve the humanitarian airdrops on Thursday, administration officials said, the decision for airstrikes became more likely. For one thing, the American C-130 planes that would be likely to drop the food and medical supplies fly low and heavy, and would release the supplies from 500 to 1,200 feet. Forces with ISIS are not believed to have surface-to-air missiles, but they do have machine guns that could hit the planes at that altitude, according to James M. Dubik, a retired Army lieutenant general who oversaw the training of the Iraqi Army in 2007 and 2008" The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. - Carl Sagan |