WASHINGTON – U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIL terrorists in support of Iraqi Security Force operations, using fighter and attack aircraft to conduct three airstrikes in the vicinity of the Mosul Dam. The strikes destroyed two ISIL armed vehicles and a machine gun emplacement that was firing on Iraqi forces. All aircraft exited the strike area safely.
These strikes were conducted under authority to support Iraqi security forces and Kurdish defense force operations, as well as to protect critical infrastructure, U.S. personnel and facilities, and support humanitarian efforts.
Since Aug. 8, U.S. Central Command has conducted a total of 93 airstrikes across Iraq. Of those 93 strikes, 60 have been in support of Iraqi forces near the Mosul Dam.
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Are you for real Phil? I am beginning to think you are just a fantasy conjured up by Matt to roil the crowd and sell more papers. It’s hard to believe any real person would behave the way you do. Matt, will you try just a little bit harder to keep “Phil” on target? The way he jumps from one side of an argument to the other makes my dizzy.
It’d be a Twilight Zone episode: An addicted blogger wakes up to realize he’s been in a mental institution for the past 7 years, blogging under different names. It’d kinda be like Shutter Island or Sucker Punch. The last scene would be doctors withdrawing a needle from the patient and the patient realizing the entire time he’d been in front of a computer, NOT hooked up to the internet.
In the beginning I thought this was a turf war, let the Iraqis sort it out among themselves. But it has moved beyond that. I think our invasion of Iraq was based on a false premise, we botched the occupation and created many of the current problems. But that was then and this is now. Where do we go from here?
Exactly as the Obama Administration is taking it: Threatening them, that if they come after us, we will go after them. Obama is an absolutely exemplary Commander in Chief. He knows what he’s doing. This is what it’s like to have intelligent rulers. I wish he could stay for another 8 years after this term expires. We are on the way to fixing this country from decades and centuries of ignorance and corruption. 8 MORE YEARS.
Ok I guess you are right, you are not a liberal or a conservative. Instead you are totally frikken insane if you think Obama is a great commander in chief. I believe someone should get a hold of your mother and tell her to have you committed. I really hope that you have not had any children.
maybe, during this time of potential imminent threat from ISIS, we all need to band together in protection of the HOMELAND. I set my domestic differences aside when it comes to threat by radical Muslim extremists. Lock and Load. Keep ears and eyes open. All of us 2nd Amendment Defenders are part of the extended militia to protect and serve.
2 things: Wok and Roll will give you the runs, and the Savage XP .223, .243, .270, .30-06 are all on sale for $249 right now at Fleet Farm. Which caliber do you recommend?
It all depends on what you are using it for, large animal the 30-06 but humans .223, all of them can be used against animals from deer on down but most hunters prefer a larger caliber. Are you finally coming off the fence?
If you are going hunting for ISIS I recommend a 12 ga slug, makes a huge hole going in and a bigger hole coming out.
Did they used to call those dum-dum (sp?) bullets?
1 shot stop
Break out the Enola Gay, and finish it once and for all…
They’ll need a new pilot. The original just died not long ago.
allen@ agreed.
I think the Kurds had the right idea, send a plt of female marines, towards the end of the month, and let them clean house literally.
I don’t know about this. The email ISIS sent to James Foley’s parents stated that terrorists were leaving us alone UNTIL we started bombing them. It’s the reason why they beheaded Foley. Believable? Maybe.
I know a lot of you conservatives are hawks, but did Obama make a mistake by starting the war all over again?
I was just thinking the other day… the only time the United States really had everyone’s attention and respect was when Truman dropped the big ones.
@JMO-what I heard today on CBS, CNN and yes even FOX was they murdered him because the U.S. would not give them 132 million in ransom. The bombing was not involved. They are threatening to kill more now if the bombing doesn’t stop. Drop the big one on their headquarters in the city they have captured in Syria. That will bring this to a stop.
Yes, I heard about the ransom, too. But the email ISIS sent to the parents stated it was because we had attacked them again. I think it’s both. We can’t be paying these ransoms though. The other countries that are paying the money are just funding the terrorists.