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CIA: We Should Not Bomb Certain ISIS Targets Because it May Harm Environment
Townhall.com ^ | November 28, 2015 | Justin Holcomb

Posted on 11/28/2015 5:58:29 PM PST by Kaslin

Former CIA director Michael Morell said last week that the White House has hampered the intelligence community's ability to attack oil fields and oil trucks controlled by ISIS. Morell said that, "we didn't go after oil wells, actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls, because we didn't want to do environmental damage, and we didn't want to destroy that infrastructure." He went on to say that there was a pretentious feeling in the war room that bombing ISIS oil targets would indeed cause environmental damage.

On November 18th, Colonel Steve Warren said that striking oil trucks owned by ISIS may cause harm to the drivers who may be innocent.

So, this is a decision that we had to make. We have not struck these trucks before. We assessed that these trucks, while although they are being used for operations that support ISIL, the truck drivers, themselves, probably not members of ISIL; they're probably just civilians. So we had to figure out a way around that.

An entire script of Colonel Steve Warren's press briefing can be viewed here.


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To: Kaslin

Ruled out everything. No boots and no bombs so ISIS funds indefinitely. Obama strategy. Hes a pretty big idiot. Makes Carter look like Napoleon.


101 posted on 11/29/2015 4:26:08 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: Kaslin

” the White House has hampered the intelligence community’s ability to attack oil fields and oil trucks controlled by ISIS. “

Imagine that! A politically correct way of fighting a war while pleasing Gaia in doing no harm to the environment.

I guess we will start fighting wars with paint guns, BB guns and pellet guns while mightily smiting those enemy warriors with Nerf clubs.

The thought of that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that the environment is now safe.


102 posted on 11/29/2015 5:30:13 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Kaslin

We need a new CIA.


103 posted on 11/29/2015 5:34:55 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: KSCITYBOY

It sure looks like it.


104 posted on 11/29/2015 5:39:35 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Sheesh.

5.56mm


105 posted on 11/29/2015 5:43:11 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Kaslin

Check his portfolio for ME oil.


106 posted on 11/29/2015 6:17:50 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: LucyT

Besides, Bombing contributes to Global warming!/S


107 posted on 11/29/2015 8:14:56 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: spodefly
Wrong, there are plenty of warriors left in leadership positions- all of them soldiers of allah. Here is a major problem:
108 posted on 11/29/2015 9:13:12 AM PST by matthew fuller (GWB Legacy: BHO. BHO Legacy: ISIS.)
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To: Art in Idaho
Art, I sadly feel you are correct.

The last Exit on the Freeway To Hell is coming up in 2016. If we don't get off this Highway Of Death then we are on for the long downhill plunge into the fire at the bottom unless we pull out all the stops and take matters into "our own" hands and STOP the bus if it careens past the Exit.

109 posted on 11/29/2015 9:24:28 AM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: onedoug

Ploesti was an attack on a refinery, not the oil field. Field are hard to really damage, and the machinery destroyed is fairly easy to replace. An individual pump is hardly a worthwhile target for a smart bomb. But a refinery is the ultimate soft target. Use cluster bombs.


110 posted on 11/29/2015 10:35:59 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: Gritty
The last Exit on the Freeway To Hell is coming up in 2016. If we don't get off this Highway Of Death then we are on for the long downhill plunge into the fire at the bottom unless we pull out all the stops and take matters into "our own" hands and STOP the bus if it careens past the Exit.

Totally agree. During WWII the whole country was united, we were all Americans fighting wars on two fronts and people worked together.

I hope people can finally be educated enough to realize by Nov 8, 2016 that we are fighting a two front war again with domestic enemies, the democrat party plus MSM and foreign enemies, Russia, China, Isis, Islam and other threats.

I hope we all come together as Patriotic Americans and vote accordingly. .

111 posted on 11/29/2015 2:19:15 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: 5th MEB

Usually we excuse ourselves and do it in private, but once in a while...Nature catches us off guard, LOL!

Also, we don’t, ‘Sweat.’ We ‘Glow.’ :)


112 posted on 11/29/2015 7:22:34 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: vette6387

Agreed!


113 posted on 11/29/2015 7:23:20 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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