Posted on 11/24/2015 11:51:58 AM PST by b4its2late
As part of Operation Tidal Wave II, the U.S. military dropped leaflets containing grave warnings to oil truck drivers in Islamic State territory 45 minutes before destroying almost half the truck fleet.
Here's what the pamphlets said, according to a report from The Free Beacon.
"Get out of your trucks now and run away from them."
Another pamphlet read, "Warning: airstrikes are coming. Oil trucks will be destroyed. Get away from your oil trucks immediately. Do not risk your life."
The airstrikes took out 116 oil trucks, which put a sizeable dent in the 300-strong fleet. Concern over civilian casualties is the reason it took so long to assault a highly-valued source of revenue for ISIS, according to the Pentagon.
But the solution was simple enough, even though it took an unusually long time to implement: fly F-15s over the region and drop pamphlets warning drivers to abandon their trucks.
However, the A-10s and C-130s sent in for the strikes did not eliminate the entire fleet. Rather, the Pentagon maintains that the aircraft ran out of ammunition, and so were forced to return to base.
"In Al-Bukamal, we destroyed 116 tanker trucks, which we believe will reduce ISIL's ability to transport its stolen oil products," Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said. "This is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike."
Congress is suspicious about the Pentagon's reasoning, especially given that U.S. pilots have told Congress that they've been thwarted by the chain of command and prohibited from dropping 75 percent of their payloads. Clearance to strike comes infrequently and as far as the pilots are concerned, seemingly endless delay has given ISIS room to expand.
While the Pentagon says it's worried about civilian casualties and so is reticent to allow strikes at any given point, the Kremlin has accused the U.S. of allowing ISIS to continue largely unabated in the hopes that the group will bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the U.S. is hoping to hit the sweet spot in the fight against ISIS.
"They want IS to weaken Assad as soon as possible to make him leave somehow, but at the same time they don't want to overly strengthen IS, which may then seize power," Lavrov said.
If they must drop pamphlets they should read what Ted Cruz has been saying “If you join with ISIS you have signed up for your own death” BOOM!
There is some possibility that the drivers were under duress and their families possibly held hostage. Whether that is a good enough reason is open to debate.
During WWII, the English dropped leaflets over a German city.
A member of Parliament demanded to know what the leaflets said, but the government refused to make it public because the knowledge might be of aid to the enemy. The MP allowed as to how the enemy already knew what was in the fliers.
You don’t win wars by telling the enemy when and where you plan to attack them. The element of surprise is the key to victories but of course, odumbo would never intentionally kill any “Muslimes”. Personally I would come over the mountains with guns a blazing until all of them were dead.
They have the same attitude about war as they have about guns.
Take away the guns and there will be no crime.
Destroy ISIS means of support and weapons, they won’t kill anyone else.
“They want IS to weaken Assad as soon as possible to make him leave somehow”
In other words, they USA has been supporting ISIS.
It took a year and a half and a Russian map to find you but you're in big trouble now. This is your strongly worded letter.
Barack Obama
Fellow Islamicist
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There is value in telling an enemy that it’s about to be bombed. If doing so let’s them know there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.
But that works on rational enemies, who are susceptable to demoralization. Fundamentalist Muslims are anything but.
Yes! Chilling that we have such a goofy President.
I don’t like the idea of setting a precedent of seeing a president charged and convicted of war crimes in the international courts, but this SOB makes it damn tempting.
Lies and pure propaganda by the filth that have committed HIGH TREASON, most likely trying to save their filthy ANTI-AMERICAN TREASON ACTIONS, by Aiding and Abetting ISIS/Al-Qaeda to fight another day! This is nothing but a PATHETIC EXCUSE at best.
LOL! Love it.
Agreed.
Toasty ISIS oil truck runner.
Obozo would have dropped leaflets the day before D-Day.
Pray America wakes
The only thing that works with these scumbags is extermination.
I think chilling in the fact dummies at the top warned them so they could get out of their trucks, and then remain alive until their new trucks arrive to drive again!
LOL! Yes he does! Defective oil cans!
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