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Why are US troops in the Syrian city of Manbij?
ABC News ^ | Jan 16, 2019 | Luis Martinez

Posted on 01/16/2019 12:59:07 PM PST by McGruff

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Some background information on today's bomb blast in northern Syria. Worth reading.
1 posted on 01/16/2019 12:59:07 PM PST by McGruff
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Why?

Mainly to keep Turkish troops from killing Kurds.


2 posted on 01/16/2019 1:01:45 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: McGruff

False flag to keep the Military Industrial Complex in business.


3 posted on 01/16/2019 1:12:19 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Did I miss the declaration of war or AUOF vote for Syria.

The US really needs to stop just showing up in civil wars.


4 posted on 01/16/2019 1:17:17 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: mountainlion

Wanna bet those guys were killed by “ allies” masquerading as IS?


5 posted on 01/16/2019 1:17:40 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: McGruff

Trump was right trying to get them out but the Democrats and media made a big deal of it so he slowed it down. And the Secretary of Defense quit over it. Now they are justifying the American military presence by telling us how important our soldiers are. But rest assured the deaths will be blamed on Trump one way or another.


6 posted on 01/16/2019 1:26:31 PM PST by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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It will be used as a reason to keep us there and get more of our best young men and women killed in an extravagant foreign adventure that does NOT involve US national security. C’mon, Trump, get rid of the neocons from your Administration; we don’t need them, we don’t want them, let them Democrats have them and follow their disastrous policies.


7 posted on 01/16/2019 1:27:29 PM PST by laconic
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The latest on today’s attack:

Two U.S. soldiers and two American citizens were among those killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing in northern Syria.

U.S. Central Command says one of the civilians was employed by the Defense Department and the other was a contractor. The names of the American victims were being withheld until their families are notified.


8 posted on 01/16/2019 1:33:46 PM PST by McGruff
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Why are US troops in the Syrian city of Manbij?>>>>>>>>

Taunting Errdogan and Putin.

Lets start shipping armored cavalry vehicles, including tanks,
cannon, choppers and other ordnance to our US Kurd allies.Let the Russian supporting Kurds rot.


9 posted on 01/16/2019 1:33:55 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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They got Mandy!


10 posted on 01/16/2019 1:34:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Ask anybody who’s raised a son, if he wants to see them killed to protect Kurds from Turks.


11 posted on 01/16/2019 1:35:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Looking for HRC’s old hard drives?


12 posted on 01/16/2019 1:35:36 PM PST by Ikeon (i may be wrong but I'm not lying. .....really....)
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I’d sure like to see our troops entirely out of the middle east, but if we;re going to pull out of syria now - the least we could do is blow up the turkish tanks and artillery that are waiting and lined up on the border.


13 posted on 01/16/2019 1:35:59 PM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: McGruff

My theory is that the CIA was involved in the blast.


14 posted on 01/16/2019 1:39:41 PM PST by PAR35
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To: DesertRhino

I agree, I have said since it started we have no business in Syria.


15 posted on 01/16/2019 1:47:44 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Put Russians in! Turks would respect them. Get on the Horn with Putin and solve this problem. Let Kurds withdraw.


16 posted on 01/16/2019 2:12:24 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: silverleaf

Excellent point. There are no good guys there.


17 posted on 01/16/2019 2:13:44 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Mainly to keep Turkish troops from killing Kurds.

No, bc Hillary and Obama put them there as part of their regime change plans for Asyria. We need to get out before any more Americans are killed. Trump should follow example of Reagan who got us out of Lebanon when Marines were killed


18 posted on 01/16/2019 2:18:20 PM PST by rintintin (q)
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To: silverleaf; mountainlion

False flag to keep the Military Industrial Complex in business.

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easy to see thru this op

ISIS would want “yankee go home”, not give new reason to stay.

what’s brennan up to these days?


19 posted on 01/16/2019 2:23:43 PM PST by thinden
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...Turkey began threatening those partners in Manbij, and the U.S. had to work to prevent the Turks from carrying out any attacks. At the same time, Syrian regime forces and their Russian backers recognized the town's strategic value as well and -- not wanting Turkey to have control of the area -- Russia sent troops to begin patrolling near Manbi.
20 posted on 01/16/2019 2:39:00 PM PST by McGruff
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