Posted on 11/23/2015 12:14:39 PM PST by amorphous
Last week, in the wake of Russian and US airstrikes on ISIS oil convoys, we asked three important questions:
1.Who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties? In other words, who are the middlemen?
2.Can it possibly be true, as officials now claim, that the Obama administration refrained from bombing Islamic State oil trucks because Washington thought the group was "only" making $100 million per year instead of $400 million?
3.Is it likely, considering how cavalier the US is about collateral damage from drone strikes, that The Pentagon refused to take out Islamic State's revenue stream because the military was afraid of killing a few “innocent†truck drivers who by definition knew they were transporting illegal crude for a terrorist organization?
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Sort of like the TSA in action: Obsessed with stuff. The people who mean us harm, not so much.
Clinton used to do this when he needed a bump in the polls.
But that couldn't be: NBC, the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes have all assured me that the man called 0bama is a Christian.
45 minutes to hide their vehicles or round up some human shields. Nice job, Obozo.
What a retard!
Take the drivers else wise they will just go and get more trucks.
A little loss of life will send a message to future truck drivers and others involved in the ISIS enterprises.
Costs per hour of American manpower and equipment does not warrant the catch and release fool mentality.
But, he wants to save muslim lives and enable them to expand their operations.
Obama cheered when the Pentagon was bombed and the
World Trade Center towers hit.
Proof: He cheers today, arms the al Qaeda attackers,
and imports terrorists and diseases into the Homeland.
Is ISIS getting participation trophies, too? :)
Obama wants to kill illiterate truck drivers!
We gave them a YEAR of uninterrupted revenue by not bombing them on any of the last 365 days.
We anti-ISIS people actually WANT to kill the truck drivers too.
They are a revenue producing arm of ISIS. We need to scare all people in that region from cooperating with ISIS in any way.
That is in the long run a better way of helping the people against ISIS. Kill enough soon enough that ISIS loses support. Yes, there will be “civilian” casualties, but in a war zone, transport of fuel is a legitimate target.
Buy a pair, 0bummer, and bomb the F*** out of anything that moves.
Begs the question, why not before now?
Major source of income, fuels islamic terrorist vehicles.
..when not used to burn to death the infidel.
Maybe they ought to serve them a warrant before they bomb.
Too bad Doctors without Borders weren’t accorded the same courtesy.
But for the typical US peasant, I guess the no knock SWAT raids will continue.
He does the same thing when there are any Ferguson's happenings. He doesn't led the way we expect him to. Instead he plays lip service to being president while still giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
I am amazed that he has held out for so long.
Typical Democrats at War
The Terrorist in Chief.
Nagasaki people, leave your city for we will be bombing you shortly.
PSST, tell Hirohito NOT to surrender for this will be the last bombing you will experience....
So this won’t make them mad and “create more terrorists” but not letting them sneak into our country under cover of “refugee” status would?
Exactly. Is there only one road?
I can’t help but think of the GI No skit showing how ridiculous ROEs and tactics fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-VGyp8PJIk
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