Thousands of US Humvee in the hands of ISIS

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Nebor

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The fools, they'll never have enough drip pans & chock blocks for all those Humvees.
 

trenchfoot

Lifer
Aug 5, 2000
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I'll bet at least half of them will end up in Cuba and Somalia as taxi's and tourist rentals. ;)
 

Brian Stirling

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Anyone remember when Saddam's Iraq and the fanatical Iran both hated America, but were both too busy hating on each other to do anything about us? And we spent our military/contractor mega billions elsewhere? Man, those were the days. :)


Actually, during the 80's Iraq was om our side and we considered them as our friends. They even sent a couple Exocet missiles into the USS Stark back in 1987 killing three dozen Americans in the process and we didn't bitch slap them for it.

Cheney et al drove us into a terrible war but the company he worked for made out big time -- just a coincidence, nothing to see here, move along...


Brian
 

Omar F1

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"The return on these training investments? The Iraqi army had 30,000 soldiers in Mosul, who ran away in the face of about 1,000 Islamic State fighters. The same thing happened just a few weeks ago in Ramadi, where 10,000 Iraqi soldiers, collapsing faster than a cardboard box in the rain, fled ahead of only 400 Islamic State fighters. The Iraqis left behind more weapons."

Only in Iraq could you outnumber your opponents 20:1, outgun them in firepower and still retreat.

"The United States is currently in the process of moving to Iraq 175 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks, 55,000 rounds of main tank-gun ammunition, $600 million in howitzers and trucks, $700 million worth of Hellfire missiles and 2,000 AT-4 rockets."

Now we plan to give ISIS (indirectly) tanks? Are we crazy or maybe the military industrial complex really does exist and is selling us weapons to destroy the weapons we just bought from them.
No, the Iraqi army did not run away, they had systematically retreated and withdrawn their forces. That was reported back then by Info Dewelt.

Do you guys really believe that Superman bs theory, you guys are smarter.


Days after days it becomes more evident that they're nothing but a hired thugs to terrorise the region, well financed and pushed by political agenda to further devistate this fkn region.
 

Jhhnn

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Days after days it becomes more evident that they're nothing but a hired thugs to terrorise the region, well financed and pushed by political agenda to further devistate this fkn region.

Meanwhile, the Israelis, the gulf sheikdoms & their Neocon friends wring their hands in mock horror. Couldn't have worked out better for them if they'd planned it this way, which they may have.