Posted on 02/07/2024 1:12:59 PM PST by McGruff
A U.S. drone strike hit a car in the Iraqi capital Wednesday night, killing three members of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia, including a high-ranking commander, officials said.
The strike came on a main thoroughfare in the Mashtal neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. A crowd gathered as emergency response teams picked through the wreckage.
A U.S. official familiar with the matter said that a senior Kataib Hezbollah commander was targeted in a U.S. strike on Wednesday in Iraq. The official was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.
Two officials with Iran-backed militias in Iraq said that one of the three killed was Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria.
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Sorry but you are wrong. The MIC buys its politicians and pays them very well. Many federal politicians are members of the MIC.
Sad we do not have anyone near by one of these a holes who can do a double tap to the forehead but need use 500K missiles to do it.
“Remind me what all that Desert storm shyt and everything else in Iraq was for?”
Still wearing your Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq T-shirt?
How about “I’m on Team Saddam” bumper sticker?
How ‘bout “911 was America’s fault!” poster?
WTF is wrong with you?
Always
Everything on the interwebz is legit.
Remember when Trump droned Salami and all the fake peace activists came out of the closet to protest the killing of a terrorist?
A relative did 5 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in the USMC. In his opinion, it would have been better and easier just to leave Saddam in charge, and use a small fraction of the money spent just to buy him and his sons off.
Yep, paying off troublesome foreign leaders is a diplomatic tactic as old as time.
“In spite of all of the dead and wounded Americans and a over $1 trillion of taxpayer dollars we are still having to drone terrorists in the streets of Baghdad.”
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Let me make a metaphor about what you just said:
“Despite many hundred of thousands dollars spent on a cancer-patient, it still died from cancer anyway in the end.”
So no matter if we are present or not present in the middle east, the radical islam there is acting like a cancer, no matter what and is always catching up on us.
Morality:
We can chose to fight it over there. Or we chose to fight it over here. Radical Islam will follow us like cancer no matter where we are.
In principle I think it’s wiser to fight it beyond our shores.
30 years of on and off for with Iraq has resultant absolutely nothing and you want to double down on it. Insane.
The real question I have is this: How is it possible that we spend $800 billion on defense but the Navy doesn't have the money to paint & scrape its ships so they look like rust buckets? Why are ships short of missiles like the SM6? Why is the army short of artillery rounds and air defense? Why does the Air Force have to retire the A10?
Just where is all that money going?
I happen to know someone well who worked in finance at Raytheon for various weapon systems. What he said was that the military consistently ran up costs by change orders: they couldn't decide what they wanted up front and constantly changed requirements & engineering. Raytheon made some extra money but those changes also ran up Raytheon's costs as well and made the accounting and procurement process a nightmare. Stopping & restarting production lines on the F22 and F35 in particular were a tremendous waste of money.
Like the rest of our society we have huge, bloated organizations with -zero- accountability. No one at Raytheon gets sacked, no one at DOD procurement gets sacked, no generals get sacked, no politicians lose office. Everyone gets rewarded even in small ways for this gross inefficiency and there are too many pressure groups feeding at the trough to make it stop.
Ironically a real war like WWII would make it stop: we'd have a War Resources Board and all the waste would be cut out.
The only saving grace is that the weapons we produce do seem to work quite well.
I not only remember when this first happened, but the propaganda media still has people screaming about killing Solomeni.
“30 years of on and off for with Iraq has resultant absolutely nothing and you want to double down on it. Insane.”
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Whois talking about doubling down on it? I did not.
I guess you didn’t read what I posted.
Once again, it’s OK when Democrats assassinate terrorist. When Trump does it, it’s impeachment time.
Very good analysis, I share your concerns completely.
There is probably a lot of waste going on.
America’s military might be spoiled, knowing full well Democrats and Republicans always vote in favor for the military no matter what, even when it’s about 800 billion dollars. They don’t feel the necessity to optimize the costs.
When is comes to Russia’s military the money disappears in corruption. The Kremlin believed they had a certain force, a certain capacity, but discovered in their Ukraine-invasion that they were actually subpar. Lack of warm clothes, lack of medicine, rotting equipment in certain areas, less stock of ammunition than what they thought / even though it was all paid for... corruption took a toll on Russias effectiveness when it invaded Ukraine.
The proof of that is that its pretty incredible that Ukraine (which is 30 times smaller than Russia) is still resisting very well against it, even though Russia is now outpacing Ukraine artillery activity 10 to 1... and after 2 full years of war...
Ukraine even managed to recapture about 50% of the land areas Russia had originally captured.
We can thank Russia’s corruption for their botched invasion of Ukraine.
And we can salute the Ukrainians and their thirst for freedom. The don’t want to come back to Stalinism, which Russia has become (albeit without communism).
However... all of Russia’s allies are exclusively hardline communist nations and Islamic (Iran/Hamas).
A crazy cat lady on twitter threatn3dto dr[e me. TH3SE LEFTISTS WANT YOU DEAD.
Drone
“WTF is wrong with you?”
I’m not brainwashed
You need some help.
Yes, it was the AGM-114R9X "Ginsu" Hellfire. The car, other than being burned out, is pretty much intact. Almost any other weapon would have destroyed the car. Those inside were sliced, diced and roasted.
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