Iraq Reverts

[Gaspar]

While I generally think you're brain damaged, I'm with you on this.  The names are crap to anyone with half a brain, damaged or not.

It seems wrong to package something up like this to sell to the general public.

The only reason they gave it a name was because members of the military demanded it, otherwise veterans would have no status for fighting in it.  No patches.  No certificates of foreign war status.  It would kinda be like calling a terrorist attack "workplace violence" to avoid the political fallout.

Everything is politics, and I have a feeling that the flaccid name offered is almost intended as an insult, because it was already rejected by the Pentagon.
"Oh you hate the name Inherent Resolve?  Perfect!  Inherent Resolve it is!"

[guido911]

Congo has an interesting anti-ISIS policy.

A mob stoned to death a suspected terrorist before burning his corpse and eating him in revenge for a series of attacks in Congo that have left 100 people dead.

Witnesses said the young man, who has not been identified, aroused suspicion on a bus in the north east of the country when passengers discovered he could not speak the local Swahili language and that he was carrying a machete.

Witnesses said he was then stoned to death by the crowd before his body was burned and eaten.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816159/Mob-stone-death-suspected-ISIS-member-burn-corpse-EAT-revenge-series-attacks-Congo-left-100-people-dead.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[Conan71]

Congo has an interesting anti-ISIS policy.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816159/Mob-stone-death-suspected-ISIS-member-burn-corpse-EAT-revenge-series-attacks-Congo-left-100-people-dead.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Let's hope he didn't have ebola.

[Red Arrow]

Let's hope he didn't have ebola.

Hey, the Atlantic Ocean is the new Mississippi River.  If it's east of the Atlantic, it doesn't exist.

[Gaspar]

Not particularly good. ISIS has gained more ground in Syria despite our efforts.

[Breadburner]

[Gaspar]

Today ISIS is gathering gay men and throwing them to their deaths from buildings in Iraq.

[Conan71]

Not particularly good. ISIS has gained more ground in Syria despite our efforts.

I must be home brewing too much.  The graphic reminds me of a broken carboy.

[Gaspar]

War Powers resolution to congress just a few minutes ago. 
@AP  BREAKING: Obama says Islamic State 'going to lose' as he asks Congress for military force authorization.

We failed to contain them.  We are going to war against the JV team.

Sending some of these with hugs and kisses.

[Gaspar]

Unconfirmed but there are lots of military folks tweeting that ISIS has just taken a military base in Anbar, and may have taken several US troops.
Reuters is reporting that the Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi where the base is located has fallen. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/12/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-anbar-idUSKBN0LG23120150212?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

[heironymouspasparagus]

Unconfirmed but there are lots of military folks tweeting that ISIS has just taken a military base in Anbar, and may have taken several US troops.
Reuters is reporting that the Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi where the base is located has fallen. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/12/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-anbar-idUSKBN0LG23120150212?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Just more validation that we should never have gone there in the first place and should have been completely done with working with Iraq years ago.  If we are gonna have people there, keep them as a collective, cohesive force, not dispersed among the slackers that we put in power!

[Gaspar]

Just more validation that we should never have gone there in the first place and should have been completely done with working with Iraq years ago.  If we are gonna have people there, keep them as a collective, cohesive force, not dispersed among the slackers that we put in power!

I thought that base was closed?  Not sure why we still have anyone there?

Pentagon is now saying that the city was taken but the base is secure. I suppose we have to wait until the dust settles a bit.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I thought that base was closed?  Not sure why we still have anyone there?

Pentagon is now saying that the city was taken but the base is secure. I suppose we have to wait until the dust settles a bit.

Probably some kind of "training" BS.

As I have said before - we need more drones.


We could alternately use a few hundred thousand jdams.  Approach this like humpback whales approach dinner - start with a wide circle of bombs around the eastern half of Syria, separated by no more than the kill zone of each (couple hundred feet??), then move progressively toward the center of the circle, with another circle of jdams - smaller diameter - again, .  Followed by another, smaller circle another couple hundred feet smaller.  Lather, rinse, repeat....  Keep on big daisy cutter or moab for the center of the circle, just for effect.

Then Iraq.  Then whatever part of Afghanistan they occupy.

Obliteration.  Extermination.  Elimination.

[Gaspar]

Probably some kind of "training" BS.

As I have said before - we need more drones.


We could alternately use a few hundred thousand jdams.  Approach this like humpback whales approach dinner - start with a wide circle of bombs around the eastern half of Syria, separated by no more than the kill zone of each (couple hundred feet??), then move progressively toward the center of the circle, with another circle of jdams - smaller diameter - again, .  Followed by another, smaller circle another couple hundred feet smaller.  Lather, rinse, repeat....  Keep on big daisy cutter or moab for the center of the circle, just for effect.

Then Iraq.  Then whatever part of Afghanistan they occupy.

Obliteration.  Extermination.  Elimination.

I disagree.  So do they.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I disagree.  So do they.

Yeah, me too....


Isn't that what the Repubs are calling for with boots on the ground...only with our kids instead of theirs??