deltex1
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Ali Abdul-Hassan | Associated Press8:12 a.m. ET Feb. 3, 2017
Basmaya, Iraq — The U.S.-led coalition is planning for the day when Iraq will be free of the Islamic State group, ramping up training of a future Mosul police force — even as the battle for the rest of the city is briefly on hold.
Sometime during the lull, significant numbers of the security forces are expected to move into villages scattered across the plains of Ninevah province around Mosul and also into parts of the city retaken from IS over the past three months.
The Iraqi military declared Mosul’s eastern half “fully liberated” in January and is now preparing to battle for the city’s western sector — likely to be a much tougher fight in a dense and overcrowded urban environment. The operation to free Iraq’s second-largest city has been the most complex challenge for Iraqi forces to date.
You have a white Commander in Chief now. Your 8 year hiatus from honoring our troops assisting and killing capturing and destroying terrorist enemies all around the globe should be officially ending soon don't you think.
Can you spell Kobani - Tikrit -and Baghdad (never falling) idiot?
I see you left out Syria....but only a few peeps died there. Gfy
You have a white Commander in Chief now. Your 8 year hiatus from honoring our troops assisting and killing capturing and destroying terrorist enemies all around the globe should be officially ending soon don't you think.
Can you spell Kobani - Tikrit -and Baghdad (never falling) idiot?
A white man with balls...versus a brown man without.
You have a white Commander in Chief now. Your 8 year hiatus from honoring our troops assisting and killing capturing and destroying terrorist enemies all around the globe should be officially ending soon don't you think.
Can you spell Kobani - Tikrit -and Baghdad (never falling) idiot?
A white man with balls...versus a brown man without.
I see you left out Syria....but only a few peeps died there. Gfy
deltex1, post: 16486860I see you left out Syria....but only a few peeps died there. Gfy
Our side has been winning there as well. Assad and Putin were instrumental in the rise of ISIS there. But ASSAD's Chemical weapons are gone and Kobani was liberated as you were mockin our military efforts there. Just like you are still doing about Mosul.
There is another lull in the fighting in Mosul now that Trump took over. What's up with that?
By our side you mean the unprecedented coalition of 60 plus countries.
I keep googling for that list of 60 plus countries.....nada.
Mad Dog Mattis is formulating his plan to annihilate the goat fuggers
Yeah sure, Foo.....keep on thinking that if it makes you warm and fuzzySassyIrishLass, post: 1648705Mad Dog Mattis is formulating his plan to annihilate the goat fuggers
Sure he is. It's follow the Obama plan. Because it has been working.
By our side you mean the unprecedented coalition of 60 plus countries
Yeah sure, Foo.....keep on thinking that if it makes you warm and fuzzy
. He co-authored with General David Petraeus the 2006 counterinsurgency manual that helped to revolutionize the US approach to the Iraq War, emphasizing that fighting insurgents required -- at least in the short term -- assuming greater risks for American troops who had to get out of their massive bases and live among the Iraqi people if they were to have a chance of really understanding and ultimately defeating the Iraqi insurgency.
SassyIrishLass, post: 16487306Yeah sure, Foo.....keep on thinking that if it makes you warm and fuzzy
There are disagreements for sure but there is little argument to be made for massive troop deployments in Iraq and Syria. They simply aren't needed with Mosul more than half liberated and in a few months it is expected to be fully liberated.
See my link about training the police.
I was always a Petraeus fan and Mattis coauthored this book with him.?
Inside the mind of 'Mad Dog' Mattis (Opinion) - CNN.com
. He co-authored with General David Petraeus the 2006 counterinsurgency manual that helped to revolutionize the US approach to the Iraq War, emphasizing that fighting insurgents required -- at least in the short term -- assuming greater risks for American troops who had to get out of their massive bases and live among the Iraqi people if they were to have a chance of really understanding and ultimately defeating the Iraqi insurgency.
You wing-nuts went Berzerk against Obama when McCrystal proposed the same counterinsurgency plan for Afghanistan and implemented it.
That's when Spin became a surrender monkey on Afghanistan.
Unlike Trump Mattis is a military intellectual. I have confidence he will restrain Trump from using the military for publicity stunts.
And he stringly opposed torture and taking out terrorists families as Trump has provoked.
He will abide by the Geneva conventions and strongly support NATO.
From June 44 to early 45, Roosevelts coalition had gone from Normandy to the edge of the Rhine river. Foo's boys are halfway thru Mosul. Well done Foo...you get the obama medal for buggery.
Correll, post: 16486085The dems and the republicans have a bi-partisan consensus on confronting Russia.
No they don't. You are an idiot if you believe that.
Republicans are far more hawkish. Very much more hawkish on everything.
The whole eight year wing nut tirade against Obama was that he was weak, leading from behind. Not standing up to anything with US military threats.
When you vote for an outsider Republican for President and Congress you are voting to give warmongers more power.
That's what you have done warmonger Republican. That is exactly what you have done.
The problem is you're looking at the problem as a military/strategic one.There are disagreements for sure but there is little argument to be made for massive troop deployments in Iraq and Syria. They simply aren't needed with Mosul more than half liberated and in a few months it is expected to be fully liberated.
Trump does not want a new COld War, and ran on NOT fucking with Russia.