US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the Islamic State killed the first U.S. serviceman in Iraq who was aiding Kurdish fighters near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, RT reports. A statement from the US-led forces in Iraq added the fatality was “a result of enemy fire.”
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Operation Inherent Resolve was launched by Washington against Islamic State in 2014. In December of that year, a US Air Force pilot was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed due to maintenance problems.
Obama had previously stated on numerous occasions that no US “boots on the ground” would be deployed to Iraq before changing his strategy and sending hundreds of troops to the region.
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More blood and treasure to fight an enemy that this administration created and supports. I have to believe that good will triumph over evil. I pray that I live to see that day but it is in God’s hands.
David DeGerolamo
I hope and pray that the Almighty has a special place in hell for the people that are sending our troops to their deaths.
It should be obvious to all that those, now in the military, are loyal Americans and value their oaths. Otherwise, they would tell o’shitbag to go and F&&k himself and walk away.
I can’t wait for the “elite’s” comeuppance…
I they where loyal and valued their oath. They would not partake in treason.
Therein lies their conundrum…do they follow orders or do they defend the Constitution? You and I may know the answer without thinking but these, recent inductees, many of whom are o’bamie’s babies, are a “separate breed”.
If they are loyal and value their oath, there is not a conundrum.
Waco and Ruby Ridge were carried out by baby boomers.
Don’t forget the ‘Bonus Army’ incident of ’32 carried out by the Boomers’ parents or grandparents:
At 4:45 p.m., commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered[citation needed] the cavalry to charge them—an action which prompted the spectators to yell, “Shame! Shame!”
Shacks that members of the Bonus Army erected on the Anacostia Flats burning after the confrontation with the military.
After the cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed bayonets and tear gas (adamsite, an arsenical vomiting agent) entered the camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers. The veterans fled across the Anacostia River to their largest camp, and President Hoover ordered the assault stopped. MacArthur chose to ignore the president and ordered a new attack, claiming that the Bonus March was an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government. Fifty-five veterans were injured and 135 arrested.[12] A veteran’s wife miscarried. When 12-week-old Bernard Myers died in the hospital after being caught in the tear gas attack, a government investigation reported he died of enteritis, while a hospital spokesman said the tear gas “didn’t do it any good.”[16]
During the military operation, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, later the 34th president of the United States, served as one of MacArthur’s junior aides.[17] Believing it wrong for the Army’s highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: “I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there,” he said later. “I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff.”[18] Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army’s official incident report which endorsed MacArthur’s conduct.[19]
I thought about mentioning that.
That’s kind of what I was getting at. We won’t know until those orders are given and the lines in the sand are defined. THAT is our conundrum. Theirs is that terminal decision.