Posted on 06/05/2015 9:42:34 AM PDT by edpc
In an ironic twist of fate, more than two-thirds of the Humvees that the US government supplied to Iraq to fight terrorists have ended up in the hands of Islamic State militants.
And the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has not wasted any time in converting those vehicles into one of its deadliest and most nightmarish tools: suicide car bombs.
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OK.
So the Iraqi Army is walking now?
Baloney.
This is just more lying from the Obama Administration.
They are giving military equipment to terrorists to try to stop them from hitting us while the Obama Administration is in charge.
They are giving equipment paid for by American taxpayers to our enemies that will be used to kill Americans when Obama leaves office.
It is Accessory To Murder even in a convoluted Democrat Court.
Of what country?
Do you think the terrorists are using OnStar when they break down?
Nothing new.
ARVN soldiers sold U.S. military firearms and equipment to the Viet Cong on a regular basis.
ISIS has global aspirations. Hitler’s Nazis had global aspirations. They BOTH seek to conquer the world. How come we fought the Nazi’s but not ISIS? Wait, I know the answer to that but we mustn’t say it. Not acting on ISIS to EXTERMINATE THEM NOW will result in a bloodbath in the U.S. eventually. Failing to wipe ISIS out is a mistake of EPIC proportions.
Lot of them are up armored with 50 cal machine guns
Snicker. Foreign Policy experts didn’t learn diddly from Viet Nam. We’ll just train the govt. forces to handle the insurgency. Tschu! There is a cultural psychology at work here. People who are surrounded by trash heaps and corruption while living a struggle for minimal survival are going to make for crap soldiers. They got nothing to fight for in the larger sense, no notion of enduring “principle” beyond their day to day subsistence. They don’t even make for good mercenaries, who at least get decent pay. ISIS has substituted a blind fanatacism for principle, and they’ll fight only as long as they are being victorious. Take out their ideological “Imams” at the front, hand them a couple of tactical losses and watch the white flags come out. They are crap soldiers like the rest without their “political officers”, which is why they and every other dictatorship army has had them.
I hope they realize these modifications void the factory warranty.
Not quickly enough, I'm afraid. They multiply like roaches.
Enemy islamist ø. Everything’s right on schedule.
Why are we not dropping bombs on these vehicles as well as tanks and armored personel carriers?
Does OnStar have an on-board accelerometer calibrated for "detonation?"
Does OnStar have an on-board accelerometer calibrated for “detonation?”
You mean connected to the Japanese airbags?
The moment President Cruz lifts his hand from the Bible, He should unleash a sky full of our remaining A10 Warthogs on the bastards!
LOL
The devastation we could bring on a few of those convoys and jihadi encampments is over due. Warthogs are even more capable than the Hueys of our day
I would hope that our military had the presence of mind to install tracking devices in each of these Hummers....quietly.
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