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originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: enlightenedservant
How many civilians have died at the hands of tyrants like Hussein and Assad, not to mention th Taliban and Al Qaida? Let's not sit here and pretend these civilians had some magically robust life expectancy before the US had their fill of the terrorist's horsecrap and took action.
How many more have died or have been slaughtered by the influx of groups like ISIS who have swelled into the vaccuum only to undo every inch that we bled for?
They may have been tyrants, but they kept the sectarian violence in check, a hell of a lot more than what it is NOW
That is because Obama cut and ran, progressive commie sympathizers know how to snatch defeat from the face of victory.
We had NO PLAN that was viable to stay during the Bush administration......we CANT stay there forever anyway, it was bound to happen......
Those countries and cultures are not like our own.......its a fools errand to think we can go in, depose/kill dictators, whipe out militaries and everything would be fine.......
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: fencesitter85
fighting ISIS was a campaign promise
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: marg6043
The usa has something much more impressive than tungsten.
Theres this guy named KeV and he has 511 problems for north korea.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-led air strike mistakenly killed 18 members of a Kurdish and Arab militia backed by Washington south of the Syrian city of Tabqa, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
The U.S.-led coalition forces struck the position on Tuesday after another partner in the fight wrongly told them its was occupied by Islamic State militants, the Pentagon said, underlining the complex nature of the conflict.
"The target location was actually a forward Syrian Democratic Forces fighting position," the statement added.
The SDF is fighting in a campaign to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa city, Islamic State's main base of operations in Syria.
The militia has closed in on the Islamic State-held Tabqa area, a focus of heavy fighting, about 40 km (25 miles) west of Raqqa.
The SDF said its leadership was working with the coalition to investigate the incident and prevent it from happening again.
"In the area of military operations near Tabqa and as a result of error, a painful incident took place" causing several casualties, the SDF said in a statement.
(Reporting by the Washington Newsroom, additional reporting by Ellen Francis in Beirut)
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originally posted by: Spiramirabilis
a reply to: blueyedevilwoman
My father didnt sell me to my husband and my clitoris is still very much intact.
We just killed some of those women
you're trying to use to justify how special you are
The U.S.-led coalition forces struck the position on Tuesday after another partner in the fight wrongly told them its was occupied by Islamic State militants, the Pentagon said, underlining the complex nature of the conflict.