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Bill O'Reilly: Defeating ISIS and other terror groups
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| Sept. 22 , 2104
| Bill O'Reilly
Posted on 09/24/2014 5:28:36 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
What about a mercenary army; elite fighters who would be well paid, well trained to defeat terrorists all over the world. Here's how it would work the fighters would be recruited by America and trained in the USA by our Special Forces. U.S. Army rules of engagement would be followed, strict discipline formed by the Geneva Convention. America would be in charge of selecting who makes the cut and how they are deployed with an eye on a 25,000-person force.
American and NATO officers would lead the mercenary army and the USA would also provide logistical support basing the first trained soldiers in Kurdistan. The force would be called the anti-terror army and the cost paid by the coalition that President Obama is trying to put together and these countries that won intelligence and protection from the USA and NATO would have to chip in.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blowhard; bor; isis; mercenaries; oreilly; rop; tedbaxter
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where can I sign up ?
To: LeoWindhorse
Ultimately, your money can’t fight for you.
Maybe for a time, but not for long.
To: LeoWindhorse
Nuking the whole area would be faster and less expensive!
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:32:01 PM PDT
by
jimmyo57
To: LeoWindhorse
How many Mooselips would be in that mercenary group and take out others for the Jihad. Nice on paper a disaster in reality.
Pray America wakes
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:35:43 PM PDT
by
bray
(Read: Republic of Texas 2022)
To: LeoWindhorse
A mercenary army wouldn’t have let SEALS die at Benghazi... Oh wait, the mercenaries would function under Obama and Hillary types... they would be just as impotent...
And we’d be paying for two armies...
Nevermind.
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:35:51 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
To: Pearls Before Swine
The problem with mercenaries is always,
what do you do with them if they win?
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:36:14 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
It won’t be long and wars will be fought by machines. Thus the country that can build bigger, badder and greater quantities of machines will have the edge. There will still be humans controlling them but not on the frontlines
To: LeoWindhorse
Billy boy is a fraud....why bother with what he has to say?
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:37:54 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
To: Pearls Before Swine
I’d love to be paid well to go help kill those people .
1000’s of old men , like me , would sign up .
Put us on a hill with a 300 Win mag and an electronic upload tally device .
Shall we say $400 a scalp ?
To: LeoWindhorse
I think the Romans tried something similar.
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:44:19 PM PDT
by
Adder
(No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
To: plain talk
What happens when the machines become self-aware?
To: svcw
"Billy boy is a fraud....why bother with what he has to say?"
The bloviator thinks he has all the answers. I think he should send them all copies of his books. They'll die laughing.
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:45:00 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: LeoWindhorse
This should be the UN but cannot because the UN is so damn corrupt. NATO would seem a better. Something has to be done and it must be by a global force since these insane animals are all over the place. And what if all of a sudden there is a large radical force on American soil. Should NATO be called in or should we take care of it with our resources. I just don't know, but something has to be done and a NATO force seems logical. Americas military can't just be the police force of the world.
And what about the communists clubs like Russia and China. Some Nations could and should, like us, take care of the radicals by themselves. China would shoot them on the spot and stick the Geneva Convention rules up their ars.
To: tet68
“Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacré mercenaire”
the perfect medicine for PTSD = payback ....
To: Logical me
a know a few Marines that would just love to hunt hajis on home turf . just let them try something and they will find out ....
To: research99
To: LeoWindhorse
Nuke em from orbit, its the only way to be sure
To: LeoWindhorse
I’m all for it. Training? Don’t need it. There are mercs out there already trained... and they proved their capabilities in the 90’s in Africa. Scared the heck out of governments worldwide. Accomplished a whole lot with very few folks.
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:49:31 PM PDT
by
ataDude
(Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
To: LeoWindhorse
H.R.3076 -- September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 (Introduced in House - IH)
HR 3076 IH
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3076
To authorize the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal with respect to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war planned for the future.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 10, 2001
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations
A BILL
To authorize the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal with respect to certain acts of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, and other similar acts of war planned for the future.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001'.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) That the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 upon the United States were acts of air piracy contrary to the law of nations.
(2) That the terrorist attacks were acts of war perpetrated by enemy belligerents to destroy the sovereign independence of the United States of America contrary to the law of nations.
(3) That the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks were actively aided and abetted by a conspiracy involving one Osama bin Laden and others known and unknown, either knowingly and actively affiliated with a terrorist organization known as al Qaeda or knowingly and actively conspiring with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, both of whom are dedicated to the destruction of the United States of America as a sovereign and independent nation.
(4) That the al Qaeda conspiracy is a continuing one among Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and others known and unknown with plans to commit additional acts of air piracy and other similar acts of war upon the United States of America and her people.
(5) That the act of war committed on September 11, 2001, by the al Qaeda conspirators, and the other acts of war planned by the al Qaeda conspirators, are contrary to the law of nations.
(6) That under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, Congress has the power to grant letters of marque and reprisal to punish, deter, and prevent the piratical aggressions and depredations and other acts of war of the al Qaeda conspirators.
SEC. 3. AUTHORITY OF PRESIDENT.
(a) The President of the United States is authorized and requested to commission, under officially issued letters of marque and reprisal, so many of privately armed and equipped persons and entities as, in his judgment, the service may require, with suitable instructions to the leaders thereof, to employ all means reasonably necessary to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda co-conspirator, and of any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions and depredations perpetrated upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001, and for any planned future air piratical aggressions and depredations or other acts of war upon the United States of America and her people.
(b) The President of the United States is authorized to place a money bounty, drawn in his discretion from the $40,000,000,000 appropriated on September 14, 2001, in the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorists Attacks on the United States or from private sources, for the capture, alive or dead, of Osama bin Laden or any other al Qaeda conspirator responsible for the act of air piracy upon the United States on September 11, 2001, under the authority of any letter of marque or reprisal issued under this Act.
(c) No letter of marque and reprisal shall be issued by the President without requiring the posting of a security bond in such amount as the President shall determine is sufficient to ensure that the letter be executed according to the terms and conditions thereof.
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:50:40 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: LeoWindhorse
What about a mercenary army fighting ISIS right here at home?
O’Reilly totally overlooks the danger the public faces right here at home
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posted on
09/24/2014 5:58:46 PM PDT
by
353FMG
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