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Top general: 50,000-troop coalition needed in order to crush ISIS
fox news ^ | 4/13/16 | Catherine Herridge

Posted on 04/13/2016 4:38:07 PM PDT by Nachum

It will take a coalition of 50,000 troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State, according to the former army chief of staff who spent more than four years serving in Iraq and who is credited, along with retired General David Petraeus, with being the architect of the successful 2007 troop surge there. "Probably around 50,000," said Gen. Raymond T. Odierno during a panel discussion moderated by Fox News for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Odierno, who received the George P. Shultz award for distinguished service, emphasized the 50,000 would not all be U.S. troops, but the coalition would need

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1 posted on 04/13/2016 4:38:07 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 04/13/2016 4:38:39 PM PDT by Nachum (ISIS is alive... and Chris Stevens is dead)
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To: Nachum

American B-52s replaying Arc Light, and 50000 Kurds and Yazadis.


3 posted on 04/13/2016 4:39:14 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Nachum

Forget it. Just seal the borders, ban them from coming into Western nations, cut off all aid, and detonate a nuke if they ever attack us again.


4 posted on 04/13/2016 4:39:31 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Rafael Cruz: Canadian-born, Cuban ancestry, ineligible for POTUS)
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To: Nachum

Would those 5000 be for here or the middle east?


5 posted on 04/13/2016 4:40:35 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Good plan.

Deport anyone from the ME who is not yet a citizen. Cancel their green cards and toss them.

Every last muslim one of them.

L


6 posted on 04/13/2016 4:41:39 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Bring in 20,000 Chechnyan guns for hire from Russia. They love to fight. They will terrorize those faggy ISIS amateurs. They will waste them


7 posted on 04/13/2016 4:41:39 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Nachum

Zippy the a## clown has nothing but a gaggle of a##clown generals who will lick his boot when he says so,he has gotten rid of all of the so called problem generals. 1 nuke on mecca will get thier attention, and the snowflake community organizer and chief will not do it


8 posted on 04/13/2016 4:42:27 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Ditto. And I’m sick to death of ‘US’ being NATO. The other nations without ‘skin in the game’ need to leave or shed their blood and treasure. We’re not ‘mercenaries for hire’.


9 posted on 04/13/2016 4:47:45 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: Nachum

As long as the 50,000 holds their breath and don’t contribute to Global Warming.


10 posted on 04/13/2016 4:50:40 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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I thought Chechens were Muslim ...


11 posted on 04/13/2016 4:51:30 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: TexasTransplant

Or... (gasp!) say things that are political...


12 posted on 04/13/2016 4:53:40 PM PDT by Nachum (ISIS is alive... and Chris Stevens is dead)
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To: DuncanWaring

...and Rules of Engagement like we used to have, say in WWII


13 posted on 04/13/2016 4:54:13 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: Nachum

I would think turning the Middle East into glass would take far fewer.


14 posted on 04/13/2016 5:04:21 PM PDT by goodwithagun (March 3, 2016: The date FReepers justified the "goodness" of Planned Parenthood.)
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To: goodwithagun

Give them the Dresden treatment; we wouldn’t hear from them for another 7 centuries.


15 posted on 04/13/2016 5:06:31 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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I thought Chechens were Muslim ...

Yes. If the pay were right I think they would fight ISIS as a favor to Vladimir Putin. Putin installed a very loyal stooge to run Chechnya. People are poor there and the men like to fight

16 posted on 04/13/2016 5:06:46 PM PDT by dennisw
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"It will take a coalition of 50,000 troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State, according to the former army chief of staff ..."

And don't forget the trillion dollars of nation building aid from mostly the USA to rebuild the country. You know -- new roads, sewers, water treatment plants, new buildings and mosques, new hospitals, free medical care, free food, free education, new schools for the children, new mansions for the politically connected insiders, new weapons for the military, training for the police and military, paychecks for the military and police and government workers and on and on and on and on .... until America is completely looted.

17 posted on 04/13/2016 5:07:20 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: gg188

Ramp up neutron bomb production and eliminate a lot of the problem.


18 posted on 04/13/2016 5:12:04 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Nachum

Refurbish the Enola Gay.... one more mission


19 posted on 04/13/2016 5:29:19 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: ptsal
Gay Pride.....
Enola Gay and proud of it...
20 posted on 04/13/2016 5:30:36 PM PDT by ptsal
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