Posted on 01/23/2015 9:35:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Washington - The United States and Iraq have started preparing for an offensive by summer to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul, which was taken by Islamic State (ISIS) militants last June, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Preparations include selecting and training military units for the planned assault and cutting supply lines to ISIS fighters, General Lloyd Austin, head of the US military's Central Command, told the Journal.
Mosul is the largest city in a self-declared ISIS caliphate straddling the border between northern Iraq and eastern Syria.
A senior Iraqi official told Reuters in November that Mosul was the focus of government efforts to defeat Islamic State, because of the city's size and symbolic status.
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Giving Mosul to Iran instead of ISIS is an improvment?
It’s going to take Obama until summer to get ready to play the JV squad? Okey-dokey...
Nothing like giving ISIS a heads up.
Boots on the ground?
This wont happen. No ground troops. funny
That’s what I was thinking too.
Why in hell are we divulging this information to our enemies ..?? Or is this Obama’s idea of playing FAIR ..??
God help us ..!!!!!!
Mosul is part of the Kurdish north, it should go back to them and we should support more autonomy or independence for the Kurds. Make them promise to leave Turkey alone but grab whatever part of Syria makes sense.
It will be Iranian boots on the ground. And if they take Mosul they will never leave.
In addition to our goal and timeline, why don’t we go ahead and send them our battle plans. /s
“Loose lips ...”
They will backtrack from this Mosul announcement later.
Heck, the entire invasion of Iraq was planned and executed in only four months in 2003.
I guess he never got to play Toy Soldier, so now he's playing with
real Military lives. And for what? Either kill them all, or let them kill each
other and get out of the way. I don't care how many Muslims die, especially their families.
And the Christians over there should arm up, the Bible isn't a suicide pact.
the peshmerg probably wont wait until summer
Recruiting and training more cannon fodder, yeah, that should work.
Gonna need a lot of B-52s, B-1s and B-2’s to take out the ISIS defend fortifications surrounding Mosul, then pinpoint bombings/missiles on AA sites, command & control buildings, and the “technical” vehicles.
Do we really think that Obama is going to do this? Hell no!
He’s a Marxist, jihadist sympathizer and a coward to boot.
However, if we rent our Air Force with staff to the Iraqis and Kurds, then it will be a different story.
Next, level Naffa in Syria, ISIS headquarters.
When you cut off the head of a snake, the body will eventually die.
Isn't it also the location of al Muthana, Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons facility?
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