BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE
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ASKED WHAT HE SAW IN HER, BIG DAWG GREW SILENT AS HE REFLECTED FOR A MOMENT BEFORE LAUGHING AND SAYING, "HONESTLY, BOYS, I WAS DROP DEAD DRUNK THE DAY OF MY WEDDING. I COULD'VE MARRIED ELMER FUDD AND WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ANY DIFFERENT."
Barack Obama's plan for Iraq is bomb, bomb some more and send US troops in.
That's clear by today's Defense Dept announcement:
That's clear by today's Defense Dept announcement:
Strikes in Iraq
Attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 14 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government:
-- Near Habbaniyah, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL building.
-- Near Haditha, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two ISIL vehicles.
-- Near Kisik, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed ten ISIL fighting positions.
-- Near Mosul, three strikes destroyed nine ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL command and control node, and two ISIL assembly areas.
-- Near Ramadi, six strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit, suppressed an ISIL mortar system, denied ISIL access to terrain, and destroyed an ISIL mortar system, three ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL rocket-propelled grenade system, two ISIL vehicle bombs, an ISIL building, two ISIL heavy machine guns, an ISIL tunnel entrance, two ISIL petroleum oil and lubricant trucks and an ISIL front end loader.
-- Near Sinjar, a strike destroyed four ISIL command and control nodes.
Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.
And the lack of a real plan for anything more than more of the same is clear in the talk as well.
In an apparent chatty mood yesterday while flying into Paris, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter talked with reporters. Dan Lamothe (WASHINGTON POST) reveals the chatty Carter declared that more US troops will likely be headed to Iraq ("The president has indicated that wherever there is additional opportunity to make a difference according to the strategy, we'd be willing to do that") and that this is due to the 'success' in Ramadi. Andrew Tilghman (MILITARY TIMES) notes, "U.S. military officials are in high-level talks with the Iraqis about potentially sending hundreds of additional troops to Iraq for training and supporting the upcoming invasion of the Islamic State group’s stronghold in Mosul."
It's no longer just Ash Carter going public, Kristina Wong (THE HILL) reports:
The United States might send more trainers to Iraq to help local forces retake Mosul from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a U.S. defense official said Wednesday.
"The reason we need new trainers or additional trainers is because that's really the next step in generating the amount of combat power needed to liberate Mosul," said Army Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the ISIS effort.
Carter's remarks came up in today's US State Dept press briefing moderated by spokesperson Mark Toner.
QUESTION: And in fact, today – I think it was today – Secretary Ashton said – Carter said that they are also looking for Arab countries to participate in the training and equipping and so on. But you talked about the urgency of the situation – we remember as far back as last spring when they were talking about --
MR TONER: Right, Said, but I mean --
QUESTION: -- liberating Mosul and so on.
MR TONER: Right.
QUESTION: But the longer you wait, it seems that the longer that ISIS can also establish roots in the ground.
MR TONER: Well, I mean, I would argue the opposite. I mean, with the systematic and steady approach that the Iraqi forces – again, with our assistance and with other members of the coalition’s assistance – have been making against ISIL, they’ve been losing ground. They’ve been losing territory. And we’re going to keep applying pressure. That’s something we’ve talked about. But you can’t let – I mean, there’s just an urgency overall. Certainly, cultural preservation is part of it, the preservation of historical sites is part of it. But it’s also, as I said, the constant threat that these innocent civilians under their rule or under their brutal dictatorship are suffering that also lends urgency to our mission.
The 'success' isn't a 'success.'
Iraqi forces are still trying to clear the area of the Islamic State.
Victory was declared before it was earned.
Secondly, as photos of the area demonstrate, the real 'winning' fighter in that battle was . . . War Planes. US war planes bombing Ramadi.
The city is in ruins.
It is so bad that Iraq's Shi'ite and Sunni leaders are saying no battle can result in the 'Ramadi option' again.
But a whorish press in the US has allowed the lies of Ramadi to stand so Barack can claim that he's building on 'success.'
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