Posted on 08/07/2014 7:13:13 PM PDT by Lorianne
President Obama said Thursday that United States military aircraft had dropped food and water to thousands of Iraqis besieged by Islamic militants on a mountaintop in northern Iraq.
Speaking from the State Dining Room at the White House, the president said he had directed the United States military forces to conduct targeted airstrikes on the militants if they moved to take Erbil, threatening the American citizens and military personnel there.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That was my favorite of the war... “Baby Milk Plant” spray-painted on a broken piece of plywood, propped up against a bombed-out mosque/weapons storage building.
And it was in English.
A senior administration official said that the humanitarian effort would continue as needed, and that he expected further airdrops. We expect that need to continue, he said.
The BBC announced today that the UK will also be airdropping food and water.
I did read the article. I was merely noting that 8,000 MRE’s per day for 40,000 people isn’t sufficient. If they ramp it up every day or if the UK is airdropping more (as you pointed out), then they’ll be fine.
Thanks for the added info.
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- Napalm
- Fuel-Air bombs
- Nukes
- Balack Hussein Ebola Junior is planning on buying expensive mid east oil for the USA and building up the Caliphate and strengthing Islam to invade/attack America to take our oil, coal, natural gas
- Vlad Putin knows this and has his own huge problems with the crazy Muslims (Boston Marathon anyone? - More than a few radical terrorist Muslims in the Ukraine.) as do the ChiComs - Putin recently mentioned “pragmatic solutions” which Hussein Tu ignored.
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but Obama might bomb the Yazidi and drop food to ISIS
we’ll have to wait and see
Obama is an idiot. This entire mess is a result of his incompetence. Actually, it’s worse than that. It’s a direct result of his “electioneering” which is tantamount to treason.
You're being kind and gentlemanly putting it into those terms.
I'd conclude the "incompetence" is really cover for the intentional infliction of DESTRUCTION on the America way.
Obumbler's "CHANGE" is to fix what was never broken.
Hopefully our good Generals can stretch that ‘order’ to the limit.
LOL! I remember watching CNN that night. He was on the phone live from his hotel room while the bombs were falling. He said he was calling from under the bed. I'm sure Peter Arnett was right there next to him.
The amount of blood on his hands ensures him a special place in hell.
Why are Christians in Iraq more valuable than Christians in Nigeria?
I think the air strikes are there specifically to keep slaughtered Christians and Iraq out of the headlines until after November. think : Afghanistan surge. he used that to keep Afghanistan out of the headlines for a couple of election cycles - having absolutely no interest in actually winning there.
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