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Air Force general lashes out at ISIS strategy critics
Washington Examiner ^ | June 5, 2015 | Andrew Tilghman

Posted on 06/05/2015 8:53:30 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse

Finding Islamic State militants to kill is not easy, the top U.S. commander overseeing the air war in Iraq and Syria said.

Air Force Lt. Gen. John Hesterman says U.S. pilots are hitting as many targets as they can find, and to suggest otherwise is simply wrong.

"The thought that we are observing large numbers of Daesh terrorist and not killing them anywhere is fiction," Hesterman said Friday in a rare briefing for Pentagon reporters from his headquarters in Qatar.

"That is patently false," said Hesterman, the commander for U.S. Air Forces Central Command.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: hesterman; isis; usairforce
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To: JParris

Add that to the list ;)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3297400/posts?page=35#35


21 posted on 06/05/2015 11:01:19 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: LeoWindhorse

If I was more of a conspiracy theorist, I’d suggest that DAESH is a CIA/US government creation and entity.

I mean, after all, why else would they refuse to be so aggressive? Because it’s the new “Secret Army” doing to dirty work of deposing Assad.


22 posted on 06/05/2015 11:03:53 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: LeoWindhorse

Hey General ? Us civilians have a Constitutional right of free speech to criticize your sorry commie asses when you are failing, we’s is your boss.


23 posted on 06/05/2015 11:05:41 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: LeoWindhorse

now, i’m not a general in 0bama’s army, but i’m pretty sure if i wanted to defeat an enemy, my strategy prolly wouldn’t include giving then $5 billion and one of our freshly stocked military bases.


24 posted on 06/05/2015 11:18:33 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: LeoWindhorse

So.. what the general is saying is maximum firepower is being used on ISIS, yet it doesn’t halt their advances. Wiping out all those long columns of trucks and military gear on those wide open roads is simply beyond our capability.

Got it. So put simply, the enemy succeeded in its objectives despite so-called maximum effort to stop them. That’s what we call a military defeat. A force of 30,000 with no air assets defeated the purported #1 military force in the world.


25 posted on 06/06/2015 1:35:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: ScottinVA

it isn’t over yet

but they DO have to deal with their C&C

He is the biggest problem right now


26 posted on 06/06/2015 1:44:05 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

What you mean “we”, General?


27 posted on 06/06/2015 1:45:21 AM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to say it. Why not me?)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Who to believe? Flyboy Hesterman or our lying eyes?


28 posted on 06/06/2015 2:34:24 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: LeoWindhorse
This...

...should look like this...

Why doesn't it, general?

29 posted on 06/06/2015 2:48:29 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: LeoWindhorse
In the meantime, did anyone notice that: ISIS throws gay men off buildings under guise of Sharia law

Yippee skippee. Sahria law. Religion of peace.

30 posted on 06/06/2015 3:11:50 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: LeoWindhorse

Knew what the general was saying was nonsense as soon he used the politically correct term Daesh because he did not want to offend Islam.


31 posted on 06/06/2015 3:14:23 AM PDT by BushCountry (If you're wondering, "I got my screenname before GW was elected the first time.")
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To: LeoWindhorse; Jet Jaguar
He does not want to jeopardize that 3 star retirement.
32 posted on 06/06/2015 4:11:17 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: LeoWindhorse
"Air Force Lt. Gen. John Hesterman says"

Lt. Gen used to mean something very special, now it's just another political plum given to ticket punchers who kiss the right ass.

33 posted on 06/06/2015 4:43:59 AM PDT by circlecity (')
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To: LeoWindhorse

The leading generals on active duty all support homos drill sargeants, trannie spec-ops troops, and ultra-restrictive ROE.

IOW, they are sellout whores, and I wouldn’t believe anything they say.

The real generals have all been purged. What’s left are homo yes-men.


34 posted on 06/06/2015 4:54:49 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: All; Travis McGee
The real generals have all been purged. What’s left are homo yes-men.

THIS.

35 posted on 06/06/2015 5:58:43 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Heck, throw in some skyraiders.


36 posted on 06/06/2015 6:32:16 AM PDT by BBell (Pacifists are the parasites of Freedom)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Yep


37 posted on 06/06/2015 7:03:50 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Travis McGee

That’s what I’m thinking.


38 posted on 06/06/2015 7:14:56 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: sten

At least he didn’t say “Fine, If You don’t like the plan, come up with your own.”

My thirteen year old boy could come up with more effective plan.

Heck, with a little homework, and a little help to keep her on task, my ten year old daughter could probably do better.


39 posted on 06/06/2015 7:30:56 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: doc1019

Our CIC is a muslim. Our entire government leadership and half of America are muslim sympathizers.


40 posted on 06/06/2015 8:00:13 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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