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ISIS Is Turning US Humvees Into Iraq's Worst Nightmare
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | 5 June 2015 | Jeremy Bender

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbomb; humvee; iraq; isil; isis
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To: edpc

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.


21 posted on 06/05/2015 10:25:51 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Baynative
Once he is gone a strong president

Of what country?

22 posted on 06/05/2015 10:26:50 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: BulletBobCo

Do you think the terrorists are using OnStar when they break down?


23 posted on 06/05/2015 10:29:58 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: edpc

Nothing new.

ARVN soldiers sold U.S. military firearms and equipment to the Viet Cong on a regular basis.


24 posted on 06/05/2015 10:30:50 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: edpc

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.


25 posted on 06/05/2015 10:38:33 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Paulie
"If you had somebody as president who wanted to take America down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world and reduce our capacity to influence events, turn our back on our allies and encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama’s doing" - Former Vice President Dick Cheney
26 posted on 06/05/2015 10:46:32 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: HiTech RedNeck
ISIS now has almost as many HUMVEEs as the United States military

Lot of them are up armored with 50 cal machine guns

27 posted on 06/05/2015 10:50:40 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: edpc

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.


28 posted on 06/05/2015 11:07:32 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: edpc

I hope they realize these modifications void the factory warranty.


29 posted on 06/05/2015 11:19:57 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: edpc
ended up in GIFTED INTO the hands of Islamic State militants.
30 posted on 06/05/2015 11:30:31 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christians are as Christians do. By their fruits...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Well in the long term that depletes the supply.

Not quickly enough, I'm afraid. They multiply like roaches.

31 posted on 06/05/2015 11:37:50 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: blueunicorn6

Enemy islamist ø. Everything’s right on schedule.


32 posted on 06/05/2015 12:00:43 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: edpc

Why are we not dropping bombs on these vehicles as well as tanks and armored personel carriers?


33 posted on 06/05/2015 12:04:47 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Proud2BeRight
Do you think the terrorists are using OnStar when they break down?

Does OnStar have an on-board accelerometer calibrated for "detonation?"

34 posted on 06/05/2015 12:10:10 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Does OnStar have an on-board accelerometer calibrated for “detonation?”
You mean connected to the Japanese airbags?


35 posted on 06/05/2015 12:11:31 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Baynative
We continuously see news footage of all their caravans. We know they have training centers, munitions dumps and oil production facilities; yet, Obama will take no action against his blood thirsty brothers. Once he is gone a strong president will end this crap in a hurry (just my guess).

The moment President Cruz lifts his hand from the Bible, He should unleash a sky full of our remaining A10 Warthogs on the bastards!

36 posted on 06/05/2015 12:15:47 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: Proud2BeRight

LOL


37 posted on 06/05/2015 12:19:19 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Jonty30
Jeepneys, yeah!


38 posted on 06/05/2015 1:34:35 PM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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To: JDoutrider
"He should unleash a sky full of our remaining A10 Warthogs on the bastards!"

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

39 posted on 06/05/2015 3:40:09 PM PDT by Baynative (For someone to get something without paying for it, someone else must pay for it without getting it.)
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To: Psalm 73

I would hope that our military had the presence of mind to install tracking devices in each of these Hummers....quietly.


40 posted on 06/05/2015 3:43:04 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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