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U.S. grapples with renewed show of force by IS in Syria, Iraq

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By BRADLEY KLAPPER and ERIC TUCKER

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Hmm. I wonder:

Just where did ISIS find guys who know how to operate artillery and tanks....?

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Thanks (R) Bush/Cheney, you plowed this soil for ISIS to grow in, by removing Saddam Hussein from office. Looks like the Shock & Awe, is against us.....for allowing the Neocon Republicans to immerse this country in ETERNAL War! With no end in sight......

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There, the U.S. hopes President Bashar Assad and his Russian backers can hold off a fresh offensive near Palmyra several weeks after they pushed IS out of its world-famous ruins and neighboring city.

-seems the US is pro-Assad and pro-Russia now. = Another swiftboat Kerry flip-flop?

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Just where did ISIS find guys who know how to operate artillery and tanks....?

Many ISIS leaders are ex-Baathist officials from Saddam Hussein's military

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If our tyrant president wasn't the biggest coward and wouldn't have left early and listened to his Pentagon senior commanders as to which way is the best in dealing with ISIS, we wouldn't be in this mess, now after Obama was handed a semi-stable Iraq and would have kept the SOFA agreement, we wouldn't be needing to go in like this. Just 6 more months until the madness is over.

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Obama was handed a semi-stable Iraq

The only way it would have been kept stable would have been to have the American military there indefinitely.

They shouldn't have been there in the first place.

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I still think we are a lot better off with Saddam, No one misses the butcher of Baghdad or his murderous sons. But since we can't go back to the past, we can only deal with the future, either way, the radical Jihadists will never stop and we need to do everything we can to destroy as many as we can.

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I completely missed this news: "And it would add further evidence of the militants’ surprising capacity to inflict losses on its enemies, after killing a U.S. Navy SEAL last week in Iraq. The special warfare operator, Charles Keating IV, was part of a quick reaction force that moved in to rescue U.S. military advisers from a firefight started by about 100 Islamic State fighters about 14 miles north of Mosul."

Am I the only one? (Oh, and what is a special warfare operator?)

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Thanks to US self appoint Global Pliceman, for turning Iraq into a Lawless country.

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