Posted on 08/07/2014 2:33:47 PM PDT by Kaosinla
The Pentagon moved swiftly to shoot down a New York Times report Thursday afternoon that American military forces had bombed at least two places in northern Iraq targeting fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
"Press reports that US has conducted airstrikes in Iraq completely false. No such action taken," Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, wrote on Twitter.
President Barack Obama is preparing to make a statement Thursday evening, the Times reported. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Times reported, citing Kurdish officials, that U.S. military forces struck at least two targets with the intention of routing ISIS fighters...
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Oh, darn.
“Press reports that US has conducted airstrikes in Iraq completely false. No such action taken,” Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, wrote on Twitter.”
Alright, who is lying? Is it the Obama Administration, the NYT or both?
If they had any sense they would keep obama out of the loop
;)
President Barack Obama is preparing to make a statement Thursday evening, the Times reported.
It will probably be Friday morning before he gets in
front of a microphone.
Obama has a temporising mind.
NY Times may have jumped the gun, and ruined any chance of a surprise attack. ISIS will now be ready for our planes and may decide to take out the 40K
Maybe we gave others the bombs to drop leaving us out of it?
So how is the President’s priorities of golf and fund raising going?
was it the French ?
Doesn’t Iraq have it’s own air force?
Twitter lit up over the past 20 mins with conflicting accounts...Reports of strikes along with humanitarium aid air drops beginning.
Heard on NPR this morning that the Iraqis were bombing ISIS with aircraft supplied by Russia.
NYT may have jumped the gun and ruined any chance for Obama to make that announcement on TV and appear as the liberating hero.
Who supplied 'trained' pilots?
“NY Times may have jumped the gun, and ruined any chance of a surprise attack. ISIS will now be ready for our planes and may decide to take out the 40K”
With our weapons......
CNN is now reporting that aid drops have begun with U.S. fighter (protection) escorts.
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