Posted on 10/05/2015 4:53:12 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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Here is a clip from the link truly fascinating!
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...........compiled by the CFR reveal the U.S. has dropped 43 bombs on ISIS per day since the campaign began. In 1991 the Pentagon dropped 6,163 bomb per day on Iraq and 1,039 in 2003. Even Serbia, which posed no threat to the United States, saw a total of 60 bombs per day in 1995.
Earlier this week the Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam said there “is clearly no seriousness” to the war against ISIS. He added the objective is not eliminating the Islamic State but rather an effort by the West to “force their presence” in the region and worsen the situation there.
“From the very outset, this air campaign has NOT been directed against ISIS,” writes Michel Chossudovsky. “The evidence confirms that the Islamic State is not the target. Quite the opposite.”
“The air raids are intended to destroy the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria.”
During the first invasion of Iraq in 1991 the same principle applied.
Souad N. Al-Azzawi of the Brussels Tribunal writes that “the major goals of the bombing was not liberating Kuwait or Iraq, rather, it was the total destruction of the civilian infrastructure.”
NATO and the United States targeted civilian infrastructure of Libya as well.
- See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/russian-official-u-s-bombing-isis-obama-lying-american-people-123148/#sthash.sZ3jxqfA.dpuf
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YOu gotta wonder who pulls the ultimate strings.
Those maps were not made by the NY Times. They were all over the place yesterday.
They are (mostly) posters on social media...
That's in addition to more conventional sources.
There's an incredible amount of "data" out there. That said, most of it is surely of dubious reliability (think: 'Baghdad Bob'). Certainly much of the fine detail in the map is iffy. A question for me would be how many people with expertise in evaluating such information would the Carter Center have? It'd have to be a substantial group.
Note that the Times makes a really dumb error: various rebel forces are stronger in the north and northeast.
The Northeast? NYT can't even read a map?
Nonetheless, the general situation as depicted is probably not too far off, from all I've read, the past year or so. It actually makes sense that Putin is hitting the non-ISIS rebels - Putin's short term goal is to prop up Assad, not worry about who he needs to hit to do it.
Bill was slick. Slick Willie fit the bill as a Fabian.
Hitlery is the prototypical psychopathic ex-wife.
Depends on who replaces it. If it is Trump/Cruz and Gowdy as AG, the answer is everything.
Otherwise, nothing.
We knew that. What we don’t know is how many of our tax dollars went to aid our enemies.
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