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Post by jdredd on Nov 15, 2016 2:42:21 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/deadly-blasts-rock-fallujah-attack-karbala-161114150347666.html"Iraqi government forces, supported by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shia militias, as well as air and ground support from the US-led coalition, are now fighting to retake Mosul. But ISIL fighters are putting up stiff resistance, while the group has been able to retain its ability to strike inside government-held territory with bombings and other attacks as it loses ground. The offensive on Mosul entered its fifth week on Monday, with Iraqi government forces still trying to consolidate gains made in the eastern edge of the city that they breached end of October. They are yet to cross into the northern and southern limits of Mosul, where more than a million people are thought to be still living."
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Post by jdredd on Dec 14, 2016 23:12:25 GMT -5
SO what is going on in the Big Push into Mosul? I think it's starting it's third month. You can be sure if it was going well it would be all over the media, but I'm not hearing a whole lot.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 3, 2017 18:05:52 GMT -5
Still not a lot of cheering in the lamestream media over the Big Push into Mosul. I wonder how many billions we've spent on it so far? You can be sure all the anti-ISIL fighters are on the US payroll. Not to mention the cost of the air support to put some backbone into them. Then again, why put themselves at risk when they can sit back and watch US bombs flatten the city?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 18:42:33 GMT -5
So Obammy! is Gearing up for War with Russia! Yea! liberals Call Fake Conservatives Repukes War Mongers! But liberals are the Biggest War Mongers! See History a Democrap got us into a wars! liberals Wants Revenge on Russia the Bogey man Because the Witch Lost! Illegal Occupant of the WH is going on Self destruct Mode to Destroy US before Leaving the WH, As I said Note to Russian Hackers or Anonymous! Please Hack into Kenya's Govt Computers and get Obamas Real Birth Certificate! liberals are going to Destroy America! Obammy & liberals War Mongers!
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Post by jdredd on Jan 5, 2017 1:47:50 GMT -5
So Obammy! is Gearing up for War with Russia! Yea! liberals Call Fake Conservatives Repukes War Mongers! But liberals are the Biggest War Mongers! See History a Democrap got us into a wars! liberals Wants Revenge on Russia the Bogey man Because the Witch Lost! Illegal Occupant of the WH is going on Self destruct Mode to Destroy US before Leaving the WH, As I said Note to Russian Hackers or Anonymous! Please Hack into Kenya's Govt Computers and get Obamas Real Birth Certificate! liberals are going to Destroy America! Obammy & liberals War Mongers! Oh, it's going to be lots of laughs seeing how The Douchebag runs our foreign policy. He probably can't find Lithuania on a map!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 10:15:50 GMT -5
So Obammy! is Gearing up for War with Russia! Yea! liberals Call Fake Conservatives Repukes War Mongers! But liberals are the Biggest War Mongers! See History a Democrap got us into a wars! liberals Wants Revenge on Russia the Bogey man Because the Witch Lost! Illegal Occupant of the WH is going on Self destruct Mode to Destroy US before Leaving the WH, As I said Note to Russian Hackers or Anonymous! Please Hack into Kenya's Govt Computers and get Obamas Real Birth Certificate! liberals are going to Destroy America! Obammy & liberals War Mongers! Oh, it's going to be lots of laughs seeing how The Douchebag runs our foreign policy. He probably can't find Lithuania on a map! Tick! Tock! Wait and see what 100 days will bring us! The Wicked Witch wouldnt know from East to West!
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Post by jdredd on Jan 15, 2017 1:10:28 GMT -5
So the Big Push into Mosul is back in the news now that Our Guys are starting to make some progress again. It's only been about 4 months now. We'll see how Field Marshal Trump will fight the war!
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Post by jdredd on Feb 14, 2017 23:51:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 0:47:47 GMT -5
NYT FAKE NEWS ALERT!!!!!! MOSUL, Iraq — Any sense of normalcy on Saturday afternoon was shredded, again, when Iraqi soldiers began opening fire, their rifle barrels aimed at a white object in the bright blue sky. “Tayara musaira!” someone shouted — a drone! Residents of eastern Mosul sprinted home, terrified by the latest attack by the Islamic State, and demoralized by the certainty that more would be coming. Three weeks after Iraq declared the eastern half of this city liberated from the group, parts of the east bank of the Tigris River remain under siege. Residents say they are repeatedly targeted by Islamic State snipers, mortars and grenade-dropping drones that buzz overhead several times a day." Ha-ha! Grenade dropping drones! Talk about a poor man's air power.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 24, 2017 0:50:26 GMT -5
Let's see: It took ISIS 6 DAYS to occupy Mosul in 2014. It's taken Iraqi forces, backed by American air power, FOUR MONTHS to retake HALF of the city. Bankrolled, of course, by US taxpayers. But we are made of money, so who cares?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 1, 2017 17:09:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/world/middleeast/mosul-iraq-american-military-role-islamic-state.html?mabReward=CTM&recp=5&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0"With the encouragement of the Americans, the Iraqi strategy has been to mount an attack on multiple axes to present the militants with more problems than they can handle. But the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has responded at times by concentrating its firepower on what it believes to be the Iraqis’ main line of attack. In ISIS’ version of combined arms warfare, it has sent drones equipped with bombs even as it lobbed mortars and deployed suicide car bombers, whom the militants use as a primitive but often effective way to deliver precision-guided munitions. Iraqi troops have been spooked by the ISIS drones, which sometimes hover in swarms of three to five. Neither the American nor the Iraqi military has an easy remedy. Trying to jam the drones might interfere with the Iraqis’ own communications, and it is not always easy to shoot them out of the sky."
So the Battle for Mosul drags on. What's the rush? The "spooked" Iraqis are probably getting a bigger paycheck from Uncle Sucker than they could otherwise. It still cracks me up that it took six whole days for ISIS to take Mosul.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 17:19:31 GMT -5
[quote author=" jdredd" =Posting Fake news! FAKE NEWS BULLS.HIT ALERT! NYT FAKE NEWS! "With the encouragement of the Americans, the Iraqi strategy has been to mount an attack on multiple axes to present the militants with more problems than they can handle. But the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has responded at times by concentrating its firepower on what it believes to be the Iraqis’ main line of attack. In ISIS’ version of combined arms warfare, it has sent drones equipped with bombs even as it lobbed mortars and deployed suicide car bombers, whom the militants use as a primitive but often effective way to deliver precision-guided munitions. Iraqi troops have been spooked by the ISIS drones, which sometimes hover in swarms of three to five. Neither the American nor the Iraqi military has an easy remedy. Trying to jam the drones might interfere with the Iraqis’ own communications, and it is not always easy to shoot them out of the sky."
So the Battle for Mosul drags on. What's the rush? The "spooked" Iraqis are probably getting a bigger paycheck from Uncle Sucker than they could otherwise. It still cracks me up that it took six whole days for ISIS to take Mosul.[/quote]
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Post by jdredd on Mar 14, 2017 17:41:18 GMT -5
So Trump is going to loosen restrictions on drone and airstrikes against the "bad guys" in Somalia, Yemen, etc., because we just haven't been killing enough Muslims. More civilian deaths too? Who cares? Not the bloodthirsty American Right.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 2:09:49 GMT -5
So Trump is going to loosen restrictions on drone and airstrikes against the "bad guys" in Somalia, Yemen, etc., because we just haven't been killing enough Muslims. More civilian deaths too? Who cares? Not the bloodthirsty American Right. Take your Meds! Its your Left made a Bigger Mess started with Obammy!
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Post by jdredd on Mar 15, 2017 11:54:39 GMT -5
So Trump is going to loosen restrictions on drone and airstrikes against the "bad guys" in Somalia, Yemen, etc., because we just haven't been killing enough Muslims. More civilian deaths too? Who cares? Not the bloodthirsty American Right. Take your Meds! Its your Left made a Bigger Mess started with Obammy! Good point. Trump is just the latest war criminal President.
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