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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Land troops on the Persian Gulf coast and start moving north. Let ISIS think about their southern flank. The Shiites won’t give us trouble.
That ought to be Obummer’s motto with regards to foreign policy.
Why are they not called terrorists?
Why militants?
How about murderers of young children
You got it! Where is the SHOCK and AWE!!!
Can we still use CBUs? Turns muzzies into jello.
Gunships! Now there is a terrorist killer!
Six sorties, eight bombs dropped. Are we trying to annoy ISIS?
Not sure what you are asking. We trained terrorists in Jordan over the last 3 years, armed and funded them. Those terrorists are now the core leadership for ISIS. CIA trained. And, it was Washington that pressured Iraq to release Abu Bakr, the current leader of ISIS, in 2009. So do the math
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