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Barracuda Bang! posted:Heads: use 'em or lose 'em Now where did that video of the dudes using 3 heads as soccer balls go?
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:12 |
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ded posted:Now where did that video of the dudes using 3 heads as soccer balls go? I really object to that. I'm pretty sure you only use 2 balls in soccer.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:17 |
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Sounds like ISIS got a little to big for their britches and Iraq/Iran have been taking cities back.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:20 |
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Derek Dominoe posted:I really object to that. I'm pretty sure you only use 2 balls in soccer. That's why Lance Armstrong rode bikes.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:21 |
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I hate the military because it's directly responsible for the creation of the Oath Keepers.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:22 |
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Maybe one of the Iraqi guys looked behind them and realized that his entire company was running away from one guy dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, flip-flops, and cargo shorts, waving his AK and screaming?
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:26 |
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since ebb failed at posting any iraqi isis warporn i will take up the mantle instead if you a pussy: gentlemen, feast your eyes ps some/all of the corpse pics may be super old
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:37 |
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Obama Africanus posted:Can't say I disagree with that young upstart, and honestly those that don't exercise their rights deserve to have them taken away which is why I'll never not exercise my 2nd amendment rights as long as I'm alive right fellow ~*~*~oath keepers~*~*~??? When was the last time anyone needed to exercise their 3rd amendment rights? Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:since ebb failed at posting any iraqi isis warporn i will take up the mantle instead
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:41 |
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Mad Dragon posted:I was waiting for someone to get shot or blown up or something in that first vid. All they did was yell and slap them around. Scroll down aways and you can see where they tied some dude to the front of their humvee like a hood ornament.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:43 |
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50 Foot Ant posted:Scroll down aways and you can see where they tied some dude to the front of their humvee like a hood ornament. Cradle of Civilization, indeed.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:45 |
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chemosh6969 posted:Sounds like ISIS got a little to big for their britches and Iraq/Iran have been taking cities back.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:50 |
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Mad Dragon posted:Cradle of Civilization, indeed. lmbo if you think we wouldnt have strapped dead muj to our trucks if we wouldve been allowed to
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:52 |
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we got into a firefight with some dudes, the IP wouldn't come pick his dead rear end up because they were loving worthless. we wrapped his bloody dead body in a white bedsheet and tied him to the hood. buddy was blasting rock you like a hurricane through the loudspeaker as we rolled through the gate to our FOB.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 04:56 |
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iyaayas01 posted:
Well duh, I just want to see someone say that they're ok with people killing each other like animals while the rest of the world does literally nothing without also talking about specific mistakes the administration made as if it could have been handled properly by a 17 year old goon with a few counter culture history novels under his belt. Basically "all intervention is wrong besides my intervention". Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jun 14, 2014 |
# ? Jun 14, 2014 05:19 |
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:lmbo if you think we wouldnt have strapped dead muj to our trucks if we wouldve been allowed to Dead?
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 05:34 |
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Would it still count as a human shield if it was a dead body
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 05:36 |
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shyduck posted:Seems about right. There was somebody on CSPAN today talking about ISIS and how they've ran a big risk with spreading themselves thin. Exactly, ISIS is making claims to all of this territory but they have zero infrastructure to secure it (similar to the Iraq invasion I guess). They can cut people's heads off but it's only a matter of time. People don't want to put up with sharia law and while yeah, they're gaining ground, they have no coherent means of securing it.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 05:48 |
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We put a dead one on the bumper when the IP's wouldn't come get him. Were we not allowed to do that?
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 06:08 |
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Richard Bong posted:We put a dead one on the bumper when the IP's wouldn't come get him. Were we not allowed to do that? they hang war criminals you know
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 06:35 |
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tom clancy is busting out his kleenex again http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27845313
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 06:44 |
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:tom clancy is busting out his kleenex again better get brad pitt on a plane to the land of israel, stat
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 06:46 |
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:they hang war criminals you know AFAIK, Rusty Calley is still working at some lovely jewelry story in Buttfuck, GA. You could argue that that's a fate worse than death, but he certainly wasn't hung.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 06:49 |
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:tom clancy is busting out his kleenex again This happened, too.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 08:14 |
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Doesn't the us still have a bunch of 50MT fusion warheads or something? We should just nuke the Middle East in a massive carpet bombing campaign and be done with it.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 08:25 |
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“Truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals.” Moving words.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 08:29 |
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quote:Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said he does not remember a case of Russian strategic bombers coming that close to the U.S. coast. lol
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 08:33 |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._in.single.html cognitivedissonance.jpg
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 08:38 |
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loving l-o-l that Slate of all places think we should have stayed there. We had no choice, Iraq and their retard Al-Maliki kicked us out. Get hosed.From article posted:Scowcroft and his fellow foreign policy wise man Zbigniew Brzezinski. lol k Whip Slagcheek fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Jun 14, 2014 |
# ? Jun 14, 2014 09:00 |
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Rep. Mike Conaway (R., Texas) posted:“Truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals.” quote:“It’s a provocation and it’s unnecessary."
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 09:00 |
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Whip Slagcheek posted:We had no choice, Iraq and their retard Al-Maliki kicked us out. Get hosed. Just a reminder of how this went down: - The Surge had essentially eliminated Sunni sources of violence and the 'militants' remaining were generally Iranian proxies, if not straight up Iranian soldiers - Obama made it clear he was going to pull troops down to a token with rules of engagement that were going to ensure they'd never do anything, and at least publicly kept saying they'd be leaving by the next election cycle anyway - Maliki originally wanted several times more troops (IIRC it was like a 35-40k permanent garrison he was asking for) but that wasn't going to happen - The Iranians are for some strange reason anti-American and anti-people who cooperate with Americans, and Maliki looked like America Cooperator #1 - Maliki's priority top ten list was ten different variants of 'Don't let my Iranian masters have me whacked' - Maliki obviously couldn't go after Iranian proxies running around when they were technically supporting him, and the US administration refused to publicly admit they even existed, therefore - The pittance of remaining American troops would've been wholly inadequate to indirectly ensure Maliki's personal safety - The Iranians and the Shia really wanted to get back to the whole 'mass murder of Sunni' stuff that the Surge had irritatingly interrupted, and that was pretty much the only bone Maliki could throw For Maliki he had the option of keeping a handful of American soldiers around, accomplishing nothing, but keeping Iraq in the American media eye where he couldn't allow sectarian mischief, all while pissing off the Iranians - or puffing his chest out a little and making a show of standing up against the imperialists. The guy seriously was looking at a lifespan measurable in months, if he was lucky. Obama (and Clinton) on the other hand desperately wanted an excuse to pull troops out with token cover against inevitable 'cut and run' accusations. The whole 'remove American soldiers' immunity' thing was a sham that served both sides - no one seriously thinks the Iraqi govt cares that much about justice for its common people. But it was a bluff on Maliki's part to try to get Obama to commit to a higher troop number with more active involvement in security, and we called him on it - which is why the Iraqis started bitching bloody murder about us leaving practically immediately, while we were like LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU, GOT PLANES TO CATCH CIAO on the way out the door. So ya, Maliki was a retard but ya gotta be careful blaming him entirely for us leaving. Although it's pointless and gauche to say things like "if McCain'd been elected he wouldna' have let Maliki throw us out" since McCain didn't make a campaign plank out of leaving Maliki hanging out to dry in the first place. Snowdens Secret fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jun 14, 2014 |
# ? Jun 14, 2014 10:08 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:
Uh, no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_incidents_in_Iraq_in_2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_incidents_in_Iraq_in_2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_incidents_in_Iraq_in_2010 It's not Iranian agents bombing Shia shrines and the Iraqi government.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 10:16 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:But it was a bluff on Maliki's part to try to get Obama to commit to a higher troop number with more active involvement in security Oh a brand new and entirely made up Dolchstoss narrative for a new and happening generation, cool.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 10:21 |
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Best Friends posted:Uh, no Did you even look at what you linked? The 'terrorist incidents' listed are suicide bombings, which are pale shadows of the open sectarian war pre-Surge, and which essentially bottom out in '09. Weak groups sending out suicide bombers aren't seizing police stations or whole towns; by Mideast standards of chaos that's about as peaceful as it gets. US media was having fun pointing out how more Americans were dying in a normal weekend of Chicago violence than in months in Iraq. Guys in this very forum were griping about how boring deployments were getting, how they didn't have any chance to 'get some' etc. Best Friends posted:Oh a brand new and entirely made up Dolchstoss narrative for a new and happening generation, cool. lol
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 10:37 |
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:I dunno if this has been posted yet but lol DnD is already getting back to "this extremist group isn't actually bad and are basically the republicans of Egypt/Iraq/Syria" I didn't believe that was actually posted. Then I clicked on the link.... The Brown Menace posted:Not incorrect. I mean sure we'd all love to pretend that ISIS is the worst poo poo ever, and they actually are a strong contender, but ISIS is also very good at keeping up (sharia) law and order. They don't just randomly gently caress with people, and many of the freedoms they restrict are ones which the people they govern never used or intended to use anyway. For some, the crazy roaming sharia wannabe-caliphate is a better option than constantly being hounded by thieves and rapists, who effectively get scared away by ISIS' "scary motherfucker" aura. Not only was it what you posted, but you left out even more "holy poo poo ". GIP is full of war criminals and murderers, but hey those ISIS guys aren't so bad...
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 11:56 |
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"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter!" Edit: Periodiko posted:I know this is pretty basic stuff, but it's really strange to me watching mainstream US coverage how they use "terrorist" to describe ISIL. They're very clearly engaging in open warfare for territory, and they have aspirations for creating a state: clearly it would be way more descriptive to call them rebels, militants, or an army. On top of that, there's this obsession with tying them to Al-Qaeda - every commercial break teaser has "meet the group that was considered Too Extreme for Even Al-Qaeda", "meet the guy who fancies himself the next bin Laden." lol Whip Slagcheek fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Why yes, I'm sure a caliphate would be a lovely system of government to live and work under. It's really frustrating to see people say that we never should have left Iraq.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 12:14 |
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It's not surprisingly tough to find articles from credible sources but it sounds like American contractors at Balad where/are in a hairy situation. As near as I can tell Iraqi Air Force flew them out after the base was surrounded. ISIS would pretty stupid to overrun and kill US contractors, it's pretty much they only thing they could do that would guarantee some type of response from the US.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 13:58 |
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Dantu posted:It's not surprisingly tough to find articles from credible sources but it sounds like American contractors at Balad where/are in a hairy situation. As near as I can tell Iraqi Air Force flew them out after the base was surrounded. Given that stellar response to Benghazi.
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# ? Jun 14, 2014 15:22 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:Did you even look at what you linked? The 'terrorist incidents' listed are suicide bombings, which are pale shadows of the open sectarian war pre-Surge, and which essentially bottom out in '09. Weak groups sending out suicide bombers aren't seizing police stations or whole towns; by Mideast standards of chaos that's about as peaceful as it gets. US media was having fun pointing out how more Americans were dying in a normal weekend of Chicago violence than in months in Iraq. Guys in this very forum were griping about how boring deployments were getting, how they didn't have any chance to 'get some' etc. I was in Al Anbar in late '08 to early '09 and this sounds right. I couldn't tell ya who was suicide bombing who but between the oodles of sleepy payroll'd militia watchmen, and lack of any clear objective for us since SOFA confined us more or less to the COP and IP stations, there was a feeling that absolutely nothing was going on. Even elections went by relatively quietly. I can't even recall hearing of any snipers after the new year, and they were doing alright for themselves in late '08. Aside from 1 random KIA and a checkpoint in Fallujah getting hit with a suicide bomber, poo poo was completely dull in '09. Dantu posted:ISIS would pretty stupid to overrun and kill US contractors, it's pretty much they only thing they could do that would guarantee some type of response from the US. I mean if they're terrorists this is probably not necessarily a bad thing for them.
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Victor Vermis posted:I was in Al Anbar in late '08 to early '09 and this sounds right. I couldn't tell ya who was suicide bombing who but between the oodles of sleepy payroll'd militia watchmen, and lack of any clear objective for us since SOFA confined us more or less to the COP and IP stations, there was a feeling that absolutely nothing was going on. My whole battalion had 1 'firefight' in 2008 where some especially retarded Iraqis decided to shoot AKs from a pickup truck at LAVs.
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