Posted on 06/16/2014 11:24:20 AM PDT by varmintman
I don't want to cite any one source for this one since a lot of the sites you'll see this story on are not exactly right of center pollitically... Nonetheless anybody can do a simple Google search on [ ISIS toyota trucks ] and multiple versions of the story will turn up, along with images, e.g.
The question you have to ask yourself is, Could I afford a new Toyota truck that easily??
If the answer is no, than you should be bent out of shape more than a little bit here. Real rebels and terrorists are supposed to be poor and operate on shoestring budgets; this appears to be your and my tax dollars at at work along with whatever contributions the Saudis might be making...
You know what happens when someone tries to pull them over? Off with their head.
Bingo! Yes A-10 ducks!
......... anybody who wants to wipe out these creeps will have to work at it.
This one would be EASY!
What makes you think they bought them and didn't just take them from the Mosul Toyota dealership at the point of a gun?
So let me get this straight. The Obama administration, which has shown no interest whatsoever in confronting Iran, is actually backing ISIS as a way to stop Iran’s ambition for power and influence in the Middle East? I understand that Obama is dumb enough to try something like this, but it doesn’t pass the smell test to me.
Agree. The “Highway of Death.” It wouldn’t long to wipe them out.
Take them out now before we have to send soldiers in.
Yes.
That’s what happens when they’re retreating, and bunched up.
Low tech armies have been using pickup-truck “technicals” in Africa since the 1980s ... they’re quite effective if used intelligently and in large numbers. Don’t under-estimate them.
In a battle of Technicals vs USA/USAF/USN/USMC ... I’m betting on US. But don’t think they can’t hurt us ... they can put a lot of bullets, SA-7s, and RPGs in our direction before we smash them all.
The original Toyota 2.4 liter 4 cylinder engines(1980s-1990s)will go for 400,000 miles as long as the oil is kept full.
They were also very simple to work on. Their only issue was the bed’s would rust along the seam.
I am on my third Tacoma. An 1988, 1999 and 2012. The first two I sold/traded in with 110K-120K miles.
One of my brothers worked as a contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan building roads and bridges. The U.S. paid him well for his work, but I wonder if he envisioned how they would be used.
No matter what color your vehicle, it will be brown after three days in the field.
Did they come with a 3 year 36 month service policy???
Someone needs to look into the new trucks... find out who’s paying for them. Too bad we don’t have a free press anymore...
How do you get hundreds of brand spankin' new trucks to North East Iraq? Looks like a Saudi operation to me. I doubt the Turks did it.
While they may have simply taken the trucks at machete-point, in this case, I wouldn't rule out a straight up purchase. These guys are well funded by the Gulf states, and they're robbing banks like Kelly's Heroes. Throw in whatever support our good friend John McCain could arrange for them, and they're definitely not hurting for enough cash to spring for a few dozen pickup trucks.
A couple of A-10s or a gunship or two and this becomes another highway of death.
“...Image: ISIS has convoys of brand new matching Toyota’s the same vehicles seen among admittedly NATO-armed terrorists operating everywhere from Libya to Syria, and now Iraq. It is a synthetic, state- sponsored regional mercenary expeditionary force....”
Now the real question (and the one for the Congressional investigation) is which states are sponsoring the regional mercenary expeditionary force..going all over North Africa and the Middle East killing and toppling government?
That is something that Obama and Clinton probably do want covered up, very deeply covered up and the price of an ambassador and a few ex-navy seals is probably just collateral damage for not publicly saying they are working for us, but not under our control.
How despicable.
A couple of A-10s or a gunship or two and this becomes another highway of death.
I would enjoy seeing another happy ending.
I think Operation Arab Spring has moved from Egypt, to Libya, and now Syria.
Supplying resources to groups which routinely fracture, war with each other, make alliances, and group and regroup, is a mistake. Resources unavoidably end up with the “bad guys”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/27/mccain-visits-rebels-in-syria/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/world/meast/syria-al-qaeda-ultimatum/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26390351
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