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US warplanes pick off ISIS fighters drawn to stranded convoy ‘like moths to the flame’
www.stripes.com ^ | 09-07-2017 | By CHAD GARLAND

Posted on 09/08/2017 11:42:59 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: proust

“dozens of the ISIS fighters and their families”

Bomb the whole convoy and be done with it.


21 posted on 09/08/2017 12:19:45 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: VietVet876

Right now, the buses are ‘bait’.....................


22 posted on 09/08/2017 12:21:31 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: proust

Lotsa Germans women and children on passenger trains got strafed by Thunderbolts.

With ISIS, I want to see the slightest proof that the women and children are not jihadi just as deserving of napalm.
We hear “children” and think tikes on trikes. The US Government calls a 20 year old Sinaloa or MS 13 member with a pancho villa mustache a “child”.

Schools in Canada, the US, and the EU are filling up with men in their 20s who claim to be a 15 year old.

Don’t fall for propaganda. That’s an ISIS convoy and that’s all we need to know. It should be incinerated form the air. Our Generals are so gay and pussified. They issue press releases to tell us when they blow up a tank.


23 posted on 09/08/2017 12:35:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Red Badger

“Kinda like the Kuwait-Baghdad Highway at the end of Desert Storm..................”

No, nothing like that. Back then Generals weren’t pussies wanting the names and ages of everyone in the convoy, and carefully deciding the guilt or innocence of every individual truck and person.


24 posted on 09/08/2017 12:37:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: BBQToadRibs
I have no doubt that almost every woman and child in that convoy would gladly strap on a suicide vest and blow up my family.
25 posted on 09/08/2017 12:44:31 PM PDT by kitchen (If you are a violin bow maker or restorer please ping me.)
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To: Red Badger

I just love it!
Bait and shoot......


26 posted on 09/08/2017 12:52:02 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: DesertRhino

The press was on our side when we attacked Germans. Right now they are waiting everyday for “red meat” propaganda that they can throw in our faces for the next 3 1/2 years. Until we can carpet bomb the NYT building as well, we just have to be a little more creative in killing terrorists.


27 posted on 09/08/2017 1:14:21 PM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: Mariner

Curtis LeMay would have destroyed anything that moved. Today, we divert enemy convoys instead of destroying them.


28 posted on 09/08/2017 1:20:03 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Red Badger

If there’s no video, it didn’t happen. I want video! Gimme some Live Leak. Nothing like a pink mist from a 50 cal in the brain pan in the morning.


29 posted on 09/08/2017 1:59:44 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: chuckles

Dittos to that! We want video of our guys muzzie plinkin’, either from the air or by ground troops. (I particularly like the Apache YouTube vids where they shred the savages with their cannon!)


30 posted on 09/08/2017 2:34:13 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Red Badger

600 people in 11 buses. Sounds crowded.


31 posted on 09/08/2017 3:04:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Bomb the whole convoy and stop pussyfooting around.

Hunting over bait (LOL).

32 posted on 09/08/2017 3:04:27 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Red Badger

Roger Spooky, you are free to engage.

Mission
The AC-130U “Spooky” gunships’ primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance. Close air support missions include troops in contact, convoy escort and point air defense. Air interdiction missions are conducted against preplanned targets or targets of opportunity and include strike coordination, reconnaissance, and armed overwatch mission sets.

Features
This heavily armed aircraft incorporate side-firing weapons integrated with sophisticated sensor, navigation, and fire control systems to provide surgical firepower or area saturation during extended loiter periods, at night and in adverse weather. The sensor suite consists of a multispectral television sensors, high definition infrared sensors, and radar. These sensors allow the gunship to visually or electronically identify friendly ground forces and targets anytime, anywhere.

The AC-130U employs synthetic aperture strike radar for long-range and adverse weather target detection and identification. The AC-130’s navigational devices include inertial navigation systems and global positioning systems. The AC-130U’s capability to track and engage two targets simultaneously with different levels of ordnance is an invaluable asset to Special Operations Forces on the ground. .


33 posted on 09/08/2017 3:12:40 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: Red Badger
. . . ensuring that civilians would not be harmed in a strike, . . .

Could we not set up some of these guys (with support) about a mile or mile and a half away and continue to "pick them off" without endangering the women and kids. (I would not weep if there was some unfortunate collateral damage)

34 posted on 09/08/2017 5:34:33 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: VietVet876

The late-columnist Art Buckwald once wrote a satirical piece on what it cost (in terms of ordnance expended) to kill each NVA (or Viet Cong) soldier. It was a ridiculous figure. He then supposed that we should sub-contract the war to the Mafia based upon the much cheaper prevailing rate to have somebody whacked. Funny piece!

But it does point out a problem when fighting 3rd world enemies... you can literally “go broke” expending high-tech ordnance to kill targets that can be taken out with a 5.56 round.


35 posted on 09/08/2017 5:47:19 PM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Call me cruel...But when your hiding behind women and children...They will forever be known as collateral damage...

Been there done that I'm sorry to say....

36 posted on 09/08/2017 6:20:31 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: M-cubed

Their children have already been taught to behead infidels.


37 posted on 09/08/2017 6:32:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Enchante

Never accept the surrender of a murdering TERRORIST.
Kill them all, including their women and children (its called collateral damage) and the problem is solved for posterity.


38 posted on 09/08/2017 9:08:37 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Enchante

Never accept the surrender of a murdering TERRORIST.
Kill them all, including their women and children (its called collateral damage) and the problem is solved for posterity.


39 posted on 09/08/2017 9:10:54 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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40 posted on 09/10/2017 12:35:41 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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