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Mattis Erupts Over Niger Inquiry and Army Revisits Who Is to Blame
The New York Times ^
| 07 Dec 2018
| Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt
Posted on 12/07/2018 2:25:28 PM PST by Theoria
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:25:28 PM PST
by
Theoria
To: Theoria
Why do we have troops in Niger?
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:26:37 PM PST
by
thesharkboy
(Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
To: Theoria
Our Special Forces need to be in Mexico - not Niger.
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:29:10 PM PST
by
sheehan
(DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
To: Theoria
Mattis ... the buck stops there ...
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:29:53 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: thesharkboy
They are there to support CIA activities out of Niger and Libya. We have a large drone base there. Much of the activities require assets on the ground. The mission in Africa was expanded under Trump.
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:31:07 PM PST
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
To: thesharkboy
Earlier reports that it’s mostly spec ops going after slavers.
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:37:06 PM PST
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
To: Theoria
Hmmm, guess they couldn’t find an enlisted person to throw in Leavenworth.
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:37:37 PM PST
by
glorgau
To: Theoria
Careful with an extra g here people.
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:39:17 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Theoria
May God bless General Mattis with a long and prosperous life!
To: glorgau
Sounds like they really tried to screw that captain though. He protested the mission. But followed orders. He seems to have fought heroically, but when everything blew up, the officers above him laid the blame on him.
To: sheehan
Exactly. Why send troops when we have perfectly good planes with plenty of bombs. Bring back napalm and cluster bombs. Plus throw in a couple of tactical nuclear weapons for fun.
To: thesharkboy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/us/politics/drone-base-niger.html
...In Niger alone, the Pentagon in the past few years has doubled the number of United States troops, to about 800 — not to conduct unilateral combat missions, but to battle an increasingly dangerous Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and even loosely associated extremist groups with proxy forces and drone strikes...
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posted on
12/07/2018 3:14:55 PM PST
by
jjotto
(Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
To: Theoria
"
. . .underequipped and poorly supported American soldiers . . ."
Right there you know it wasn't the grunts who pay the piper at fault.
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posted on
12/07/2018 3:15:44 PM PST
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: Flaming Conservative
He may not be Vulcan, but he is sure very
t logical and truthfull.
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posted on
12/07/2018 3:27:27 PM PST
by
SandRat
(A)
To: Theoria
Whenever I want understand military milieu, strategy, operations and logistics, I read the seditionist weeenies at the New York Times.
Who do I ring up to stop this stupid crap?
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posted on
12/07/2018 3:36:28 PM PST
by
sergeantdave
(Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
To: SandRat
To: thesharkboy
Why...
America is an empire. We follow the orders from the global oligarchy. Thats why.
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posted on
12/07/2018 4:11:55 PM PST
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: thesharkboy
Why do we have troops in Niger? or Syria, or Turkey, or Iraq, or Afghanistan....ad nauseum.
Meanwhile, on the southern US border....
The few troops there are weaponless, erecting tents and slinging concertina wire.
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posted on
12/07/2018 4:19:01 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(I wish Adam and Eve had been Cajuns. They would have ignored the apple and ate the snake.)
To: Theoria
More than a year after the ambush — the American military’s largest loss of life in Africa since the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” debacle in Somalia
WTF, more than in engagements in Iraq or Afghanistan? This is the NYT today.
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posted on
12/07/2018 5:36:39 PM PST
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
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