Posted on 08/08/2014 1:49:41 PM PDT by Borges
DOHUK, Iraq — The United States on Friday afternoon launched a second round of airstrikes on Sunni militants in northern Iraq, sending four Navy fighter jets to strike eight targets around Erbil, according to Pentagon officials.
The attacks came hours after an initial wave of strikes by military aircraft and armed drones, escalating the American involvement in Iraq a day after President Obama announced that the United States military was returning to a direct combat role in the country it left in 2011.
Military officials said they believed that the second round of attacks resulted in a number of casualties among the militants with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The Navy fighters launched from the aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush, which has been deployed in the Arabian Sea.
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Too little too late.
Prayers for our brave and valiant pilots
Prayers for our brave and valiant pilots
SOLDIER’S PRAYER
Prayer is the War. God’s Word is the Weapon.
Psalm 91
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [a]
2 I will say [b] of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you make the Most High your dwelling—
even the LORD, who is my refuge-
10 then no harm will befall you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
American elected Obama based on his LIES about foreign policy successes.
Gees we used to send hundreds of armed war fighting air craft to destroy the enemy!
This is good. The goal should be to wipe the bearded savages out completely. Then the target should be hezbollah, then boko haram, then taliban, then alquaeda, then all the militant violent groups of bearded savages.
Now there’s more of them and they have more weapons.
Plus the oilfields and control of the dam
First we fund, equip and train them, then we bomb them.
I’ll bet even the terrorists are wondering who we are.
Oh. Thanks for that. Don’t forget, many of our military and certainly, weapons system pilots have great devotion
So am I
God Speed to the pilots. This is too little to late. But we did create ISIS.
Oh, but we gave them SUCH a smack....
The Islamic Caliphate is clearly cowering in a corner - NOT.
How appropriate it is F-18s from the USS George W. Bush making the air strikes. Navy Aviators do good. Now bring back the A-10s and some Air Force power!
So the US trained, funded and equipped ISIS? Give me a link to that story....first I've heard of it.
AC-130s ... don’t forget about them too.
How did we do that? Did we write the Koran too?
Remember, His Arrogance is a Sunni Muslim. He is owned by the Saudi’s. The Saudi’s want the Shiites, Christians and other minorities to be gone. His Arrogance is not going to do anything significant, more like Clinton’s killing of Khadafi’s maids or Benghazi Clinton/Obama a day late and dollar short action in Libya.
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