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American Forces Said to Bomb ISIS Targets in Iraq
NYT ^ | AUG. 7, 2014 | ALISSA J. RUBIN

Posted on 08/07/2014 2:36:01 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse

Edited on 08/07/2014 2:38:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday night to rout Islamist insurgents who have trapped tens of thousands of religious minorities in Kurdish areas, Kurdish officials said.

Word of the bombings, reported on Kurdish television from the city of Erbil, came as President Obama was preparing to make a statement in Washington.


(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airstrikeonisis; iraq; iraqichristians; isis; isisiraq; us
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To: LeoWindhorse

“Arch Light.”

I believe you meant Arc Light. In any event, I agree that is what is needed.


41 posted on 08/07/2014 4:24:12 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: DeepInTheHeartOfTexas
Springstein needs to have a concert and that should make things better for all of the souls being mutilated and slaughtered all over the world due to his man, Obama. In fact, Streisand should sing, too.
42 posted on 08/07/2014 4:24:53 PM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: LeoWindhorse

Arc Light, unless you’re renaming arch as in triumphal?


43 posted on 08/07/2014 4:24:53 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Might be Iraqi fighters. They have a few F16s and Sukhoi 25s.


45 posted on 08/07/2014 4:30:37 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Rockpile

CNN: 100 American advisers in danger from ISIS advances.


46 posted on 08/07/2014 4:33:16 PM PDT by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey Thingy workin out for ya?)
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To: LeoWindhorse
what!?! mr Nobel peace prize is bombing people!?!

shocking! /s

48 posted on 08/07/2014 5:13:16 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: 1010RD

whatever

some of us remember exactly what that was
We need to deploy that strategy again .


49 posted on 08/07/2014 5:16:21 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: livius

Iraqi Air Force, no doubt.


50 posted on 08/07/2014 5:42:32 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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To: DeepInTheHeartOfTexas

No, that oil will always be a constant cause of tension and strife. Get rid of it all. Almost every country on Earth has reserves they can drill but haven’t.


51 posted on 08/07/2014 5:54:23 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Evil must be punished.)
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To: keat

Obola will F*** it up.


52 posted on 08/07/2014 5:59:34 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

- “No boots on the ground! Lead from behind with ass on the ground!” - Balack Hussein Ebola Junior


53 posted on 08/07/2014 6:00:42 PM PDT by devolve (- - Balack Hussein Ebola the Turd --)
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To: PhiloBedo

If we screw up that humanitarian drop the food and water could end up with ISIS, so bombing ISIS should be the first thing to happen around the exterior of that mountain, so the Christian refugees actually get the food/water dropped.


54 posted on 08/07/2014 6:01:16 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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55 posted on 08/07/2014 6:26:57 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Kackikat

It’s the Iraqi AF, certainly, but the US was refusing even to give them logistical or materiel support and something has obviously changed. My question is why Bambi is suddenly permitting support for an operation that challenges his beloved Islamists.


56 posted on 08/07/2014 6:33:07 PM PDT by livius
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Certainly a good thing. Unless we provide arm and resupply to the Kurds, not thru Baghdad, and unless we strike at Isis where we see them in the vicinity, this may only allow many to die with a full stomach. Hopefully I'm wrong. If we were going to act, I wish we had in a more timely fashion. Children dying of dehydration today might have been saved three or four days ago.

57 posted on 08/07/2014 6:33:30 PM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: sport

It’s a show. ISIS was/will be given plenty of notice of when and where these strikes will happen.


58 posted on 08/07/2014 6:58:42 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Now maybe ISIS will support impeachment.


59 posted on 08/07/2014 8:31:27 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: sport; Fred Nerks

Why would Obama want to bomb those he trained and armed.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

DING! DING ! DING!

We have a WINNAH!

Exactly, and a lot of those arms are from the Libyan arsenal.Obama is now fighting a sword he himself created.

What a laugh.Obama is the biggest loser of any president in history. Every secret op he has initiated has gone “out of control,”.....just as Obama the usurper wanted. Our allies no longer trust us in the least, and the Republicans have gone soft in the head, except for a few like Gowdy and Cruz.

Obama send an aerial camel train to show he is helping the Yazidis. Its just a futile gesture for public consumption.Obama should be delivering thousands of tons of ordnance to the Pesh Merga, but Obacide is happening, Obama does not want to make Malik’s life too difficult with an armed independent Kurdistan, Obama would rather see tens of thousands of bodies laying in genocidal splendour.

Why? Read this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


60 posted on 08/08/2014 3:39:59 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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