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REPORT: US Troops Flee Habbaniyya Base Near Ramadi From ISIS
Gateway Pundit ^ | 5-15-2015 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 05/15/2015 9:56:18 AM PDT by tcrlaf

There are numerous reports from Ramadi, Iraq that US troops have fled from the nearby Habbiniyya Base east of the city.

The Ramadi city center was taken by ISIS today.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201505; 20150514; habbiniyya; habbiniyyabase; habbinniyya; iraq; isis; jvteam; ramadi; ranadi; retreat
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To: cuban leaf
Lat chaopper out of Saigon

Lego version:


21 posted on 05/15/2015 10:22:42 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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Ping


22 posted on 05/15/2015 10:26:36 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: tcrlaf

23 posted on 05/15/2015 10:33:40 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: ansel12
Fleeing implies that the “United States Forces” are losing a battle and are retreating because they are losing a fight.

Fleeing also implies panic or disorder, which I'm sure doesn't exist here.

24 posted on 05/15/2015 10:37:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: tcrlaf

>The Ramadi city center was taken by ISIS today.

Bomb and flatten the city center already.


25 posted on 05/15/2015 10:39:24 AM PDT by soycd
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To: ansel12

I assume they are just advisers as everyone knows we have no ‘boots on the ground’ in Iraq anymore.


26 posted on 05/15/2015 10:54:55 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: originalbuckeye

I seem to recall another place where we just had “advisers”, next thing you know, 50,000+ US soliders were dead.


27 posted on 05/15/2015 10:55:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Timber Rattler

Too bad we don’t have a General Grant or a General Sherman (or a president who would send them) to go over there and lead a real fight against these ISIS lunatics.


28 posted on 05/15/2015 10:57:39 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: dfwgator

Sadly. But the LIVs, Big Media et al, believe whatever Obama says.


29 posted on 05/15/2015 10:58:15 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: ansel12

“Fleeing, or evacuating?”

How about “advancing in a different direction”?


30 posted on 05/15/2015 11:01:57 AM PDT by lowbridge
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31 posted on 05/15/2015 11:02:54 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: cuban leaf

That was not the US Embassy in Saigon. Watch this excellent documentary.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/lastdays/

Also, the images the media uses of US sailors pushing helicopters off their decks...those were South Vietnamese helicopters piloted by fleeing SV soldiers and their families. They pushed them off the decks to make room for more to land.


32 posted on 05/15/2015 11:07:39 AM PDT by Royal Wulff
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To: tcrlaf

Our military doesn’t flee the enemy. Our military follows the orders of a traitorous CIC handing Iraq over to savages.

No doubt, Chris Kyle would have much to say about this forced retreat.


33 posted on 05/15/2015 11:07:57 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: Royal Wulff

I’m a documentary fanatic. I’ll definitely watch. Thanks!


34 posted on 05/15/2015 11:09:11 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Cecily
Too bad we don’t have a General Grant or a General Sherman (or a president who would send them) to go over there and lead a real fight against these ISIS lunatics.

I have a theory: we always hear that the majority of the American public is tired of war, and I believe that is true. But, I believe the reason is the way we have waged war, which has resulted in strung out conflicts with unnecessary casulaties. Starting in Viet Nam, the bureaucrats have set the rules of engagement (i.e., we have to be politically correct), instead of letting the military fight to win. And now, with a community organizer-in-chief who thinks we can talk our way out of every conflict and is terrified of making anyone mad, it's even worse. If we turned our military loose, ISIS would be WASWAS!

35 posted on 05/15/2015 11:10:41 AM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: jda

Our military conducting total war against this enemy would mop these fools up so fast it would likely be over before we knew it had started.


36 posted on 05/15/2015 11:20:41 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: tcrlaf

I’m sure rules of engagement left them no other option, either flee or surrender. (U.S. ground troops are not suppose to actually kill or hurt anyone, to do so will land them in prison, plenty evidence of that)


37 posted on 05/15/2015 11:22:47 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: tcrlaf

And to think I spent a year out of my life, fighting their boyfriends out there, only to give the city back....


38 posted on 05/15/2015 11:24:36 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge

That has to sting, I know


39 posted on 05/15/2015 11:37:42 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: tcrlaf
Seriously, please explain to the class EXACTLY what “Kremlin Klub” has to do with Iraq. Or go away and stop trolling.

You filthy Putinist mongrels are more likely than not to put out anti-American news in the form that is most hostile to the country. Makes you feel good when something bad is happening to America and you can make it sound even worse. I think that was his only observation.

40 posted on 05/15/2015 11:37:46 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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