Posted on 08/08/2014 7:39:00 AM PDT by Jonah Vark
Washington (CNN) -- Two U.S. F/A-18 jet fighters bombed artillery batteries of Sunni Islamic extremists in Iraq on Friday, escalating America's military involvement more than two years after President Barack Obama brought home forces from the country.
Obama authorized "targeted airstrikes" if needed to protect U.S. personnel from fighters with the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. The U.S. military also could use airstrikes to prevent what officials warn could be a genocide of minority groups by the Islamic State fighters.
The U.S. aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a "mobile artillery piece" used by ISIS at about 6:45 a.m. ET Friday, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said. The commander of U.S. Central Command made the decision to strike under authorization granted him by Obama, Kirby said.
The Islamic State has advanced toward what officials call U.S. interests in Iraq's Kurdish region in the north this week, taking towns from the Kurdish fighting force, known as the Peshmerga. READ MORE.......
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I was watching some stupid talking head on MSNBC saying that virtually every casualty in Gaza was an innocent civilian. I blew a gasket and switched over to Al Jazeera who had a commentator that said all the casualty stats were coming from Hamas and likely were not accurate.
Which is closer to the truth? I never thought I would see this.
Handlers didn't want comparisons to Highway Of Death, even if it accomplished a great good. To Barry and his other incompetent leftist panty-waist academic fellow travelers, that was shameful. They live in Bizarro's world.
It appears that most airlines have suspended their flights over Iraq to and from middle east cities. The first radar op until recently was a constant maze of planes flying over Iraq.
The link below will show you the planes flying over Irag:
http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/6
The link below will take you to the live radar op at Baghdad Airport. Air traffic to and from Baghdad has slowed down to basically Iraqi Air planes.
http://www.flightradar24.com/33.33,44.28/10
“Wag the Dog, nothing else.”
However, it might have been more than a pup tent and some poor Arab’s flea bitten/starving camel as per Bill Clintoon.
“They’re probably being ordered to drop big bags of flour.”
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No way, flour is white so that would be racist.
George H.W. Bush. Mr. One World Government himself.
How can this be? I thought 0bama sold all of our carriers for scrap metal? ;)
Either go big or stay home. None of this “measured response” crap.
stopped the tube on bbc just now... there is a couple forein media folks giving barry pure hell!
mike
Are these the US aircraft that have been converted the over-the-top expensive greenie avgas?
Assad’s quite cuddly with Hezbollah terrorists - a group which has a long list of American deaths to its name.
More like the fleas wagging the dog.
Fascinating website! Thanks!
Until a few days ago, the air traffic pattern up and down in Iraq’s area next to Iran was non stop.
Now there is only a few planes.
i would recommend EVERYONE listen to this interview Savage had with Walid Shoebat yesterday, this guy knows his sh*t, imho and also his website is always the RAW truth, he reveals a lot of different info/videos and usually the first to reveal such things that you will NEVER see in our media!
Mike
http://shoebat.com/2014/08/09/shoebat-talks-isis-michael-savage/
I’m not asserting it happened. I would not be shocked if Jerusalem let Washington know that if they did not act to save those human beings from genocide Israel would.
Onc e again, we are removing staff from US diplocmatic sites:
U.S. Relocates ‘Limited Number’ of Staff in Iraq ... The staff from the embassy in Baghdad and the consulate in Erbil will be transferred to the U.S. consulate in Basrah, Iraq and to Amman, Jordan. —— http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-relocates-limited-number-of-staff-in-iraq-1407699105
It’s John Siegenthaler JR. that is the face of the regular AlJazeera America news. He runs a tight ship and shows endless footage from around the world that you’ll never see on MSM. If AJA has an axe to grind it’ll turn up on one of their other shows but here at the farm that channel is one of our regular check-ins.
His base is not gonna like this.
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