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The speech will be at 9PM Eastern Time. You can join the Bing / CNN dial test here. Watch it on YouTube here, or turn on a television and it'll be on basically every non-duck-hunting station. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_g8UIAK1pc spoiler alert: We're gonna bomb some folks. Excerpts via the Washington Post: quote:“So tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.” Joementum fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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With shining beacons of success such as Yemen and Somalia what could go wrong!
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Sep 11, 2014 00:19
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Raskolnikov38 posted:With shining beacons of success such as Yemen and Somalia what could go wrong! I think you mean Kenya and Uganda.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:21
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Watch Obama start a loving war.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:22
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My Imaginary GF posted:I think you mean Kenya and Uganda. I think you mean Mexico.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:23
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I hope he wears the tan suit again.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:23
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Frankly, I'm fired up for this. It's been a while since we've had a good old fashioned bombing campaign, some shock and awe, some flexing of American military might. Obama has really shied away from hunting these types of people down as president. It's going to feel good to put these terrorists in their place.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:23
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So, Syria. Well this is going to be fun.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:23
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Luigi Thirty posted:Watch Obama start a loving war. Worked for 50% of Bushes!
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:I think you mean Mexico. No, I mean Kenya and Uganda. The operational strategy for ISIS shows no fundamental differences from AFRICOM's successful containment strategy. JT Jag posted:So, Syria. Ask BM when his blackout lifts. E2: Taking bets on coalition members! US, UK, France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Iran, Romania, Italy, Turkey My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 00:24
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UAE possibly. Saudis hopefully. e: Yep. KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 00:29
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My Imaginary GF posted:No, I mean Kenya and Uganda. The operational strategy for ISIS shows no fundamental differences from AFRICOM's successful containment strategy.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:30
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My Imaginary GF posted:US, UK, France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Iran, Romania, Italy, Turkey UAE, Bahrain, Saudis, Kuwait, too
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Sep 11, 2014 00:31
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:UAE possibly. Saudis hopefully. The Saudi's probably want to be the ones running anything hypothetical Islamic state so I think they'll join.
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My Imaginary GF posted:US, UK, France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Iran, Romania, Italy, Turkey You did not forget Poland!  But we've gotta throw in the island nations too. It's Palau's time to shine once again.
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Oh good
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Sep 11, 2014 00:32
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Yeah, the Saudis are in.quote:AMMAN, Jordan — Saudi Arabia has indicated that it would agree to an American request to provide bases to train moderate Syrian opposition fighters, American officials said on Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-isis.html
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Sep 11, 2014 00:33
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Misandrist Duck posted:Yeah, the Saudis are in. If the Saudis are in, then dollar for doughnuts Bahrain is too.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:34
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Comedy option coalition member: the Donetsk People's Republic.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:37
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Performing air strikes on ISIS is good and all, but what is Obama planning to do about ISIS members flooding across the Mexican border and the ISIS sleeper cells already in the US?
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Trabisnikof posted:If the Saudis are in, then dollar for doughnuts Bahrain is too. Saudis, UAE, Egypt, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, US, France, UK, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Palau, Malta, Spain, Italy, Monaco, West Cyprus Curveballs/unofficial members: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine "gently caress You" option: West Ukraine Zinger: China Who says ISIS hasn't accomplished anything?
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Performing air strikes on ISIS is good and all, but what is Obama planning to do about ISIS members flooding across the Mexican border and the ISIS sleeper cells already in the US? Continue supplying them and preparing them for 1/19/2017.
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My Imaginary GF posted:UK, Scotland I see what you did there.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:42
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Trabisnikof posted:Continue supplying them and preparing them for 1/19/2017. Subsidized siestas with flan production developed with a corn base. Anyone who doesn't eat flan is a terrorist, and this nation cannot allow the world's greatest terrorist threat to go unchallenged. Joementum posted:I see what you did there. Are you insinuating Alex Salmond is pro-terrorism? Why, that'd force me to move Scotland from the Coalition of the Awesome to the lazy european taxdodgers column with Ireland If USA once teamed up with USSR to bomb the ME, surely we can team up with Scotland. My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 00:43
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Whats Qatar's stance on the whole thing? Also what about Oman? What does Oman do period? I hear they have a cozy relationship with the British military, why don't they ever join the fun? Also, inadvertent coalition member: Syria
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My Imaginary GF posted:Saudis, UAE, Egypt, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, US, France, UK, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Palau, Malta, Spain, Italy, Monaco, West Cyprus
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Questions: So who is providing the boots on the ground? Just bombing the poo poo out of ISIS isn't going to do much, the Iraqi army sucks, the moderate Syrian rebels are on the back foot. How does helping the Saudi-UAE axis square with our rapprochement with Iran? Their interests are aligned right up to the Syrian border, and then they're sort of ... not.
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JT Jag posted:What about Germany Oh no, I forgot the Germans, a well known peace loving peoples. They're in as much as Kurdistan. E: Elotana posted:Questions: Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Lybia, Chad, US, UK, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunesia Read that as a scale of anti- to pro-ISIS foreign manpower suppliers E: Comedy 'third way' options: Israel PRDR, Russia, Belarus, Japan My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Oh no, I forgot the Germans, a well known peace loving peoples. They're in as much as Kurdistan.
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Elotana posted:Questions: Iraq and the Syrian Free Army or whatever the CIA is calling themselves this week.
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Joementum posted:Iraq and the Syrian Free Army or whatever the CIA is calling themselves this week.
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Why aren't we counting the Peshmerga in this? I don't think they'd enter Syria, but, you never know, they may find this as the golden moment to try to flex their muscle and get de facto control over more area for Kurds.
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Joementum posted:Iraq and the Syrian Free Army or whatever the CIA is calling themselves this week. I believe one plan is to call them the SAA soon enough. Amused to Death posted:Why aren't we counting the Peshmerga in this? I don't think they'd enter Syria, but, you never know, they may find this as the golden moment to try to flex their muscle and get de facto control over more area for Kurds. A Peshmerga fighter, who trades his Turkish passport for Kurdish, trained, armed, and based in Turkey launches a TTC raid along the east Euphrates. What nation do you call out for putting boots on the ground? E2: Serious question isn't how much ISIS will die, its where we're expanding blacksites to hold former US/Western citizens. My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 00:57
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Trabisnikof posted:Worked for 50% of Bushes! The brilliance of this is that I have no idea which Bush you are referring to.
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Amused to Death posted:Why aren't we counting the Peshmerga in this? I don't think they'd enter Syria, but, you never know, they may find this as the golden moment to try to flex their muscle and get de facto control over more area for Kurds. They're definitely a player but they don't seem to have exhibited either the will or capability to really go on the offensive against ISIS. Still we're in strange days so who knows.
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Ballz posted:The brilliance of this is that I have no idea which Bush you are referring to. Vannevar.
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Hey look at this related and amusing Vox article http://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/6121503...ticle-share-top
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Amused to Death posted:Whats Qatar's stance on the whole thing? Oman already went through their empire building phase; split it up and then really didn't do anything after that other than enjoy their oil and gas.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman#18th_and_19th_centuries
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Joementum posted:Vannevar. I thought it was a double-pun on Ian Smith. E: Lawman 0 posted:Oman already went through their empire building phase; split it up and then really didn't do anything after that other than enjoy their oil and gas. Oman already colonized most of Africa. They just did so before whites, so we don't learn about it as much. My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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