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Trump, Mattis turn military loose on ISIS, leaving terror caliphate in tatters
Fox News ^ | Dec. 8, 2017 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 12/08/2017 2:22:26 PM PST by Innovative

“I will…quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS,” Trump, who would name legendary Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as secretary of defense, promised. “We will not have to listen to the politicians who are losing the war on terrorism."

Just over a year later, ISIS has been routed from Iraq and Syria with an ease and speed that's surprised even the men and women who carried out the mission. Experts say it's a prime example of a campaign promise kept. President Trump scrapped his predecessor’s rules of engagement, which critics say hamstrung the military, and let battlefield decisions be made by the generals in the theater, and not bureaucrats in Washington.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: duplicate; isis; mattis; terrorists; trump
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Excellent! Go, President Trump!
1 posted on 12/08/2017 2:22:26 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

We gots da BOOM!!!


2 posted on 12/08/2017 2:25:37 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Innovative

NSFW at all but completely hilarious

3 minutes and you will watch the whole thing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSKdlfiGC8

Well done...


3 posted on 12/08/2017 2:27:40 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

obammie is gonna be whizzed off for kicking his people’s butts


4 posted on 12/08/2017 2:27:48 PM PST by DOC44
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To: Vendome

Truly disgusting and unwatchable for me. What did you find appealing about that video?


5 posted on 12/08/2017 2:31:56 PM PST by be-baw
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To: be-baw

That is was funny as hell.

‘Specially the part where the belt on his SAW drags his coffee to him....


6 posted on 12/08/2017 2:36:51 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: DOC44

Right, aren’t muzzies supposed to be ‘cherished and nurtured?’

Barry better put an ice on that . . . it’s gonna leave a scar.


7 posted on 12/08/2017 2:40:39 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Vendome

Oh God that was hilarious!


8 posted on 12/08/2017 2:42:45 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Innovative

Not that I don’t like the idea of dead ISIS types, but what the heck are American Armed Forces doing there, and when did Congress authorized this?
Why is American blood and treasure being spent for the idiots in Syria?


9 posted on 12/08/2017 2:43:43 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Innovative

>>Keeping this promise alone locks me in as a 100% supporter of our President, and NOTHING the Trump haters can say will change that commitment.


10 posted on 12/08/2017 2:49:02 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Little Ray

Because, as I think Rumsfeld said that we better kill them over there, before they come over here.

They are a threat to the US.


11 posted on 12/08/2017 2:49:38 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Does it really matter?

I mean it was JUST the JV team.


12 posted on 12/08/2017 2:51:40 PM PST by skinndogNN
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To: Innovative

“President Trump scrapped his predecessor’s rules of engagement, ...”

SO EASY to win when to take the right approach.


13 posted on 12/08/2017 3:04:48 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

[ >>Keeping this promise alone locks me in as a 100% supporter of our President, and NOTHING the Trump haters can say will change that commitment. ]

I had to laugh at CNN having a meltdown the other day about Trump keeping a campaign promise... They must be sobbing in a corner about now...


14 posted on 12/08/2017 3:05:39 PM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Vendome

Bkmk


15 posted on 12/08/2017 3:05:51 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Vendome

That’s hilarious. New channel for me to subscribe to. Thanks for that, never heard of these guys before


16 posted on 12/08/2017 3:08:04 PM PST by This_Dude
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To: Little Ray
"Why is American blood and treasure being spent for the idiots in Syria?"

We have to go where the terrorists are. No one gives a rat's patoot about Syrians, but that's where the enemy is. Obama's "strategy" was sorta like that old joke about the drunk looking for his keys under the street light. "I lost them up that alley, but the light's better here..."

Here's the reality of 4th Gen warfare. You keep killing the Believers, until no one dares to admit membership. There are no uniforms to indicate your enemy when you are combating terror, there are no borders that can be crossed for sanctuary. If the foreign government tries to provide cover, they are a terrorist supporter. It's why Turkey and the Erdoğan government, with Russian support, is flailing. He wants to be the Sultan of a new Ottoman empire and Trump, in effect, said, "Ah, no...". This is the New Reality, the one Obama denied. We kill them there, instead of here.

It's a cesspool, and we can either pump it out, now, or wait, and get dirty later.

17 posted on 12/08/2017 3:08:06 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Innovative

Those in Iraq understand the difference.

FTA: “I was not optimistic when Trump first came to the office,” Rasool said. “But after a while I started to see a new approach, the way the U.S. was dealing with arming and training. I saw how the coalition forces were all moving faster to help the Iraq side more than before. There seemed to be a lot of support, under Obama we did not get this.”


18 posted on 12/08/2017 3:22:08 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Innovative

Why are there less breathless reports about “wedding parties” getting bombed? I find that interesting.


19 posted on 12/08/2017 3:25:38 PM PST by JimSp
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To: Vendome

How many times did they say F... in that video? Not necessary


20 posted on 12/08/2017 3:28:46 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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