Airstrikes Begin: U.S. Navy Planes Drop Bombs on ISIS Forces
The bombs, 500 pounds each, were dropped by two Navy F-18 fighter jets near Erbil, the strategically important city that serves as the Kurdish capital, and where the United States has a consulate. ISIS was using the artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending Erbil, the Pentagon said.
The fighter jets took off from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf. The mission marked a return to U.S. military engagement in Iraq, three years after Obama removed U.S. forces.
I guess we have to believe the 500 pound part——but that’s really overdoing it with respect to the job at hand. That’s like 10 cases of well placed dynamite. That’s enough to take out a couple of city blocks never mind an artillery piece. But maybe the ordnance loader guys on the Bush were just really PO’d. In any case a bunch of ISIS sand rats got schooled and are already naming their virgin goatz. And that’s not a bad thing. I expect it hurts the Grand Kenyan’s feelings that he smoked some fellow Moozies?
Three years later and the situation is now complete chaos. Should have thought through the complete withdrawal.