Posted on 02/21/2015 9:32:42 PM PST by EinNYC
I have tried and tried to find out what's going on with our 300 marines stationed at the Al-asad airbase, with ISIS reported to be 5 miles away. That was several days ago. Is there a news blackout going on? Covering up Odungo's latest leaving our troops in peril from his Muzzie buddies? Does anyone know what's going on with them?
I would appreciate an update. And I pray it's a positive one.
Was wondering about this myself, not much news
all of a sudden.
Sitting here, sharing your worry. Hoping for some answers, too.
The Marines have landed, and the situation is well in hand. Rest assured they are fine.
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Bengazi redux on steroids ?
I recall what an Afrikaner tells a British sergeant about what they would face at Roarke’s Drift in South Africa. You either stand fast or you die - he talked about their formidable Zulu adversary.
A few hundred British troops stood their their ground and defeated thousands of Zulu warrors.
The US Marines today face the same situation in Iraq. Surrender is not a default option.
We may not be the only ones seeing a ‘news blackout’ on this topic. The Marines may have learned enough about Obama to keep him out of the data loop as much as can be possible, or wait until something is uncontrollably imminent. “Sir, our bombs? They are now falling on the enemy. Well..we are telling you now, Sir,as soon as this became a matter of historical fact.’
ISIS was created by the rulers of the UK/US through their proxies, Qatar and Saudi Arabia intel/etc., at a cost of billions. Given the amount of money at work, this is the brainstorm of financial elites; they’re the only folks with the capacity to devise and order such a strategy.
ISIS’ task is to create a reason for the West/US to bring military forces back to the area on a larger scale than they currently are.
Eventually, the world rulers would like to repartition the national boundaries in the area and put in new leaders.
This will facilitate bringing the area fully under Western banking and being able to extract the raw materials cheaply.
Just visit the linkedin website and look around; you’ll quickly see that Middle Eastern countries are really being fully integrated with the West, in every way.
The end game is a world government where voters only vote for national governments, and the “world government” is completely controlled by the financial elites, and it simply dictates to national governments on all issues the elites care about. Of course, little meaningless issues like dog catcher laws the citizen will be able to vote on by voting for their national and local politicians. Things like medical services, taxes, all those type things will be dictated by the world government, so they are “up to global governance standards”. You see this already in how the EU pressures the countries like Greece who can’t repay their debt to cut services so they can continue to make interest payments on their Greek government bonds.
Yes, but the ISiS excrement is NOT armed with spears vs. British rifles. They have modern weaponry, and I heard that they are a bunch of former soldiers for various entities. I also heard that many ISiS members are common criminals and thugs as well.
Of course, for the Marines, surrender is not an option. They would be put through the most heinous tortures, with Odungo, King of Excrement, doing NOTHING to save them.
Where in the hell is our “conservative” Congress?
what linked in website
I worked in Iraq for three years, have some business interests, perhaps terminally on ice there, as well friends there. I read a ton of Iraqi news sites. Which I don’t always believe, but form a composite view. I think Al Asad has been quiet. Seemingly the Iraqi armed forces are near Al-Baghdadi, the village 5 kilometers from Al Asad perimeter. I think one of the sites I read and likely western news would be pinging if there was activity.
I looked at one of them..that tends to be more true than some others.. http://english.shafaaq.com/index.php/security/13383-security-forces-break-the-siege-on-the-residential-compound-in-al-baghdadi-town “Chairman of Anbar provincial council , Sabah Karhot has revealed on Friday the arrival of an armored brigade to Ein al-Assad base to lift the siege on the compound in al-Baghdadi.”
I know exactly what’s going on.
Obama is sacrificing them to ISIS. By doing nothing and saying he’s doing everything.
You’ll notice the News Cartel were all hysterical and wetting their panties by the massive attack by-—count’em-——EIGHT jihadis.
Navy has their back: “The U.S.-led coalition staged six air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in the past 24 hours, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Saturday.
The latest of the daily raids included one that destroyed two Islamic State fighting positions near Kobani, Syria, where Kurdish forces have been pushing back Islamic State with the help of the coalition.
Five air strikes near the Iraqi cities of Al Asad, Ar Rutbah, Mosul and Sinjar destroyed buildings, boats, vehicles and a fighting position, the task force said in a statement. (Reuters)”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/middle-east-updates/1.643446
6 strikes a day doesn’t sound like a lot does it? Of course back in the Vietnam War it might require dozens of planes and a LOT of planning (referring to “Alpha Strikes”.
With smart bombs and stuff, a strike could mean one or a few planes dropping one AGM.
Here’s a link to an article that was mentioned on FR last month. It is an op-ed from a French soldier that had served with our guys - was written in 2008. http://www.warriorlodge.com/blogs/news/16298760-a-french-soldiers-view-of-us-soldiers-in-afghanistan
Excerpt:
And combat? If you have seen Rambo you have seen it all - always coming to the rescue when one of our teams gets in trouble, and always in the shortest delay. ...
Arriving in contact with the enemy, the way they fight is simple and disconcerting: they just charge! They disembark and assault in stride, they bomb first and ask questions later - which cuts any pussyfooting short...
And that is a first shock to our preconceptions: the American soldier is no individualist. The team, the group, the combat team are the focus of all his attention.
(This is the main area where I’d like to comment. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Kipling knows the lines from Chant Pagan: ‘If your officer’s dead and the sergeants look white/remember it’s ruin to run from a fight./ So take open order, lie down, sit tight/ And wait for supports like a soldier./ This, in fact, is the basic philosophy of both British and Continental soldiers. ‘In the absence of orders, take a defensive position.’ Indeed, virtually every army in the world.
The American soldier and Marine, however, are imbued from early in their training with the ethos: In the Absence of Orders: Attack! Where other forces, for good or ill, will wait for precise orders and plans to respond to an attack or any other ‘incident’, the American force will simply go, counting on firepower and SOP to carry the day.
This is one of the great strengths of the American force in combat and it is something that even our closest allies, such as the Brits and Aussies (that latter being closer by the way) find repeatedly surprising. No wonder it surprises the hell out of our enemies.)...
...from what we have been given to witness, the American soldier is a beautiful and worthy heir to those who liberated France and Europe.
To those who bestow us with the honor of sharing their combat outposts and who everyday give proof of their military excellence, to those who pay the daily tribute of America’s army’s deployment on Afghan soil, to those we owned this article, ourselves hoping that we will always remain worthy of them and to always continue hearing them say that we are all the same band of brothers”.
I think they are putting together a fortress—a keep—to withdraw to if things go bad. Think Alamo. If they go down lots of IS fights will go down with them—it will be take no prisoners battle where they call in airstrikes on their own positions. They will be like the 300 Spartans of long ago. If they lose—it will be a battle that will be in the best traditions of the Marines. They will sing of this where warriors gather and drink for a 1,000 years.
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