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U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent Of Islamic State Strikes
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 20, 2015 | By Adam Kredo

Posted on 11/20/2015 6:40:28 AM PST by Strategy

U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance to launch a strike, according to a leading member of Congress.

Strikes against the Islamic State(also known as ISIS or ISIL) targets are often blocked due to an Obama administration policy to prevent civilian deaths and collateral damage, according to Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; obama; syria
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1 posted on 11/20/2015 6:40:28 AM PST by Strategy
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To: Strategy

What Obama calls “soft power.”


2 posted on 11/20/2015 6:41:26 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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3 posted on 11/20/2015 6:44:35 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Strategy
IMPEACH!......................
4 posted on 11/20/2015 6:46:11 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Strategy

You never win a PC war.


5 posted on 11/20/2015 6:46:51 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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Do not be fooled. America is led by an Islamic. He came to office to destroy America. He is going to let Islam and the UN finish the job he started. Only God and the American voters can save America at this point.


6 posted on 11/20/2015 6:48:17 AM PST by Rapscallion (There are also thugs and devils in Islamic robes.)
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To: Strategy

So the president approves each strike. What a way to run a war.

That’s FDR in WWII telling each pilot on each mission when/where/if on dropping each bomb.


7 posted on 11/20/2015 6:49:12 AM PST by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The EXEMPT GOP is into this, and supports slavery, and rape,
and supports Obama’s treasons ABSOLUTELY and COMPLICITLY,
every day, every hour.
... That is, when the GOP is not covering up the Benghazi,
Boston, and Border Atrocities of their Moslem antiAmerican,
undocumented Tyrant by fraud.


8 posted on 11/20/2015 6:49:18 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Red Badger
Agreed!

And it's ISIS, not ISIL, as the tool in charge says. He's an idiot in so many ways. I refuse to call them ISIL just because he does. I don't give a damn what his reasoning is.

9 posted on 11/20/2015 6:49:36 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Strategy

Give him some targets in Israel and he wouldn’t hesitate


10 posted on 11/20/2015 6:50:00 AM PST by bigbob
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Against Muslims, one cannot afford to dither on collateral damage, Kill them now, collateral be damned!

As for Soetoro, I suppose bombing empty strips of land, Christians, Jews, and Kurds explains why that number isn’t 100%.


11 posted on 11/20/2015 6:50:32 AM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: EternalVigilance

“Soft power:” a strategic tactic of deception for when the president and his revolutionary henchmen prefer satanic terrorists to their own countrymen.


12 posted on 11/20/2015 6:52:41 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: Strategy
Does Obama realize how much that ordinance weighs? Imagine the impact on the carbon footprint by carrying it back!
13 posted on 11/20/2015 6:53:34 AM PST by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: Rapscallion

“Do not be fooled. America is led by an Islamic. He came to office to destroy America. He is going to let Islam and the UN finish the job he started. Only God and the American voters can save America at this point.”


You are exactly correct.


14 posted on 11/20/2015 6:53:35 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: Strategy
he is "ISLAMIC TRAITOR"

anyone can see it

15 posted on 11/20/2015 6:54:23 AM PST by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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To: Strategy

Barack Hussein 0bama (D-ISIS), loyal to his comrades.


16 posted on 11/20/2015 6:56:31 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: Strategy

What a waste of money! Flying all of those planes that do nothing. Puts the pilots at some risk also.

Looks like France, Russia, etc., will show us how to fight.


17 posted on 11/20/2015 6:57:10 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Red Badger

I had something else in mind.


18 posted on 11/20/2015 7:01:45 AM PST by bergmeid
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To: Strategy

and the 25% of ordnance they did drop went onto empty facilities, broken down abandoned vehicles, wide spots in the road, and a deserted desert village near the Jordanian border, discovered and exposed by the Russian


19 posted on 11/20/2015 7:01:52 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Strategy

Standing by his muslim brothers.


20 posted on 11/20/2015 7:02:27 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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