Posted on 07/17/2016 5:29:06 AM PDT by ncfool
Seems Twitter feeds are being blocked on news about the base being held hostage. Why? Past 4 hours. Has the base been invaded by Turkey?
How could we have our own base be breached and not secure?
Around 6,000 people have been detained so far, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told the state-run Anadolu Agency, adding that number is expected to rise.
They include Gen. Bekir Ercan Van, commander of the Incirlik Air Base, according to the Turkish President’s office. The United States uses the airbase to launch airstrikes on ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/asia/turkey-attempted-coup/index.html
For what is left of Obama’s term.
Background info:
bkmk
Gulen wants a secular, democratic Turkey.
Erdogan, the current Turkey leader, is slowly turning Turkey into an Islamic dictatorship.
In past years, but not recently, Obama has called Erdogan his “best friend” among international leaders.
The MSM news coverage of this coup has been confusing and is clearly biased against Gulen, and biased in favor of Erdogan, the Islamic dictator want-to-be.
The fool in your name is fitting if you really believe this
What happened ?
NUTT work is appropriate spelling.
So friend of Obama muzzie dictator stages coup to get more power and now Obama allows our base to be captured?
Does this sound like a larger version of the Iranian boats thing?
Treason like weekly by this traitor Muzzlim in the whit hut.
I have not been to Turkey, but I’ve been on numerous DOD installations over the last 40 years, including recent visits to joint-use NATO and other foreign bases. The US military at these locations has always had backup generator capacity for emergencies. So communications and emergency lighting, etc, will be available.
I read elsewhere on FReerepublic in recent days that nuclear weapons haven’t been in Turkey for more than a decade.
...How could we have our own base WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS be breached and not secure?...
Obama is President.
Yeah, not one crude Hiroshima bomb but several sophisticated B61s, variable yield thermonuclear bombs (0.3 to 340 kiloton yield in various versions and settings).
It’s not our own base, our guys there are guests of the Turks whose base it is, and, according to multiple sources, the nukes were moved out in the 1980s.
I know.
To answer your question: Obama and his “protector” Paul Ryan.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/incirlik
Per various links on this feed, the Turkish commander of the base has been arrested, and the WH has asked for a news blackout while they talk to Erdogan about this MESS.
Yeah. So?
Our guys and our nuclear weapons stored there are still in peril.
Is that A-OK with you?
“How could we have our own base WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS be breached and not secure? “
Here is my understanding. It is a Turkish base under Turkish control and we are allowed to use it for limited purposes. Also, I have read that the nuclear weapons were removed in 2003. It would make sense to remove weapons from a base where you may or may not be allowed to use them by a government with a different agenda.
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