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US-led coalition devastates Raqqa with heavy airstrikes
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| 22/02/2017
| Chris Tomson
Posted on 02/22/2017 11:03:59 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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It is about to begin. Amazing progress.
The numbers of SDF involved are stated at 50,000 Kurds and 23,000 Arabs.
If ISIS is not terrified they are stupid. (they probably are, but are still terrified)
May this end quickly.
To: Texas Fossil
isn’t a “technical” just a toyota Pickup with a .30 cal in the back ?
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:07:38 AM PST
by
vooch
To: Texas Fossil
We might actually get some real shock and awe instead of the “compassionate shock and awe” that Bush claimed to have wrought.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:07:56 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: Texas Fossil
What’s that, five years’ worth of the Fraud’s “strikes” with leaflets dropped beforehand to spare his terrorist BFF’s?
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:08:20 AM PST
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: vooch
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:11:08 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: trebb
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:11:34 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil
We’re using GBU-39’s and Hellfire missiles. We’re not destroying the city. Lucky for Raqqa Russia has never tried to destroy ISIS. They prefer the binary question of choose ISIS or Assad.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:12:02 AM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
To: treetopsandroofs
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:12:26 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil
I will never forget the day we declared War on Syria.
Oh wait..... What?
Never mind.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:12:29 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
To: Texas Fossil
it has also left large sections of Raqqa in tatters...
Unfortunate to say the least, but completely unavoidable.
I hate to see kids, women and Christians killed.
And since I’m a Christian, non combatant/terrorist muslims too.
THANKS obama.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:12:50 AM PST
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Vermont Lt
That day was long ago under the Bitch & the Bastard.
Where were you when it happened.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:14:53 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: vooch
isnt a technical just a toyota Pickup with a .30 cal in the back ? Or some sort of mounted gun. Now let me see, Toyota pickup with no armor versus a ground attack jet with Hellfire missiles...not sure how to bet on that one...
To: Billthedrill
so “massive” air power wrecks 3 pickups and a couple of foxholes ?
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:24:31 AM PST
by
vooch
To: Vermont Lt
You don’t remember? It was right about the time ISIS declared war on Syria.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:24:40 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Vermont Lt
I will never forget the day we declared War on Syria.
Oh wait..... What?
Never mind.
We're not waging war on the nation of Syria. In-fact, it's President (Bashar al Assad) publicly invited the Trump administration to intervene against terrorist groups just a couple weeks ago:
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/1.771015Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview released on Friday that the United States is welcome to join the battle against "terrorists" in Syria as long as it is in cooperation with his government and respects the country's sovereignty.
As to Congressional authorization:
"That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists
Current policy (Obama Admin 12/2016):
"Based on ISILs longstanding relationship with al-Qaida (AQ) and Usama bin Laden; its long history of conducting, and continued desire to conduct, attacks against U.S. persons and interests, the extensive history of U.S. combat operations against ISIL dating back to the time the group first affiliated with AQ in 2004; and ISILs positionsupported by some individual members and factions of AQ-aligned groupsthat it is the true inheritor of Usama bin Ladens legacy , the President may rely on the 2001 AUMF as statutory authority for the use of force against ISIL, notwithstanding the recent public split between AQs senior leadership and ISIL."
In other words, Congress already authorized the War on Terror in 2001 and ISIS/ISIL = Al Qaeda in Iraq = Al Qaeda.
If Congress believes otherwise, it ought to say so, otherwise, it already declared war.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:26:52 AM PST
by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
To: Texas Fossil
Terrible, we should have warned them a few weeks in advance so the terrorists could flee.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:27:45 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
Kurds comments on our bombing before”
“NOBODY does precision bombing like US”
They are correct.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:31:23 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: vooch
It isn’t much of an intelligence report. According to the byline, the author is a student living in Denmark. Hmm...
To: elhombrelibre
My Kurd friends have told me a number of times that Russia, Turkey, Syria all blow it all up. Nobody but US does such precision bombing.
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:34:16 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Billthedrill
Is it better than you got from CNN?
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posted on
02/22/2017 11:38:20 AM PST
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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