U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes

[SheriffJoe]

U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes

‘We can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us’

A target is hit during a Russian air raid in Syria / AP​

BY: Adam Kredo

November 20, 2015 5:00 am

U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance to launch a strike, according to a leading member of Congress.

Strikes against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) targets are often blocked due to an Obama administration policy to prevent civilian deaths and collateral damage, according to Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The policy is being blamed for allowing Islamic State militants to gain strength across Iraq and continue waging terrorist strikes throughout the region and beyond, according to Royce and former military leaders who spoke Wednesday about flaws in the U.S. campaign to combat the Islamic State.

“You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can’t drop, we can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us,” Royce said. “I don’t understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit.”

When asked to address Royce’s statement, a Pentagon official defended the Obama administration’s policy and said that the military is furiously working to prevent civilian casualties.

“The bottom line is that we will not stoop to the level of our enemy and put civilians more in harm’s way than absolutely necessary,” the official told the Washington Free Beacon, explaining that the military often conducts flights “and don’t strike anything.”

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/us-pilots-confirm-obama-admin-blocks-75-percent-of-isis-strikes/

 

[GasMan]

Is there any doubt he is a Muslim and/or Muslim sympathizer?

Good fucking grief, are the liberals blind, in denial or just flat out fucking stupid. Amazing.


Now you have John Kerry saying the killing of the Hebdo people is "justified".

What the fuck is going on with you liberal dickheads?

 

[vitterd]

Earlier this week one of the nitwit conservatives was here blaming Obama for a huge amount of civilian deaths on his drones and bombs. Now we see he tries to minimize civilian casualties and you guys don't like that either. Yet another issues republicans want both sides of.

idiots

 

[superbeets]

Is there any doubt he is a Muslim and/or Muslim sympathizer?

Good fucking grief, are the liberals blind, in denial or just flat out fucking stupid. Amazing.


Now you have John Kerry saying the killing of the Hebdo people is "justified".

What the fuck is going on with you liberal dickheads?

That what Kerry really thinks, it is disgusting.

Yes the Islamic state know this weakness and move assets next to Mosques, hospitals etc.


But the good news is that Russia is really wiping ISIS scum out and their oil money making machine

 

[superbeets]

Russia does not give a


Russian strikes in Syria kill more than 1,300: monitor


Beirut (AFP) - More than 1,300 people, around two-thirds of them combatants, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria since Moscow's aerial campaign began on September 30, a monitor said Friday.



The figure supplied by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is more that double the overall toll it gave in its last report on the Russian campaign three weeks ago.

The Britain-based Observatory said it had documented 1,331 deaths in Russian air strikes, most of them of Islamic State group jihadists or other fighters..

It said 381 IS fighters had been killed, along with 547 militants from Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and other rebel forces.

The strikes also killed 403 civilians, including 97 children, according to the monitor.

The Observatory's last toll for the campaign, on October 29, put the number of killed at nearly 600.

Russia says its aerial campaign targets IS and other "terrorists" but rebel forces and their backers accuse Moscow of focusing on moderate and Islamist fighters over jihadists.

Several medical groups have also accused Russia of strikes that have hit field clinics and hospitals in Syria.

Russia's intervention in Syria follows that of a US-led coalition that has been carrying out strikes against IS in the country since September 2014.

The US-led coalition does not coordinate with Damascus however.

According to the Observatory, the US-led strikes have killed at least 3,649 people since they began, around six percent of them civilians.

The monitor said in late October that US-led raids had killed 3,276 IS fighters, 147 members of Al-Nusra or Islamist groups and 226 civilians.

 

[SheriffJoe]

The notion there are any "civilians" remaining in Raqqa is laughable.

Anyone still living in a city where Christian churches have been burned to the ground and al-Qaeda and ISIS flags fly on every building have embraced ISIS, as Germans did Hitler.

That city should be carpet bombed to dust, yes including mosques.

Kill 20,000 now, save a million later.

"innocent civilians"

"women and orphans"

...only in liberal la-la land.

Will the real men in Congress please stand up and remove this faggot traitor of a 'president' before we lose any more ground to these ruthless savages?

 

[Willie99]

loser's lose

the fucking douche has fucked up the entire world

three things mattered to him

1) fucking with a health care system that the vast majority of Americans were happy with, a system that actually cured illnesses, and turning into a gas guzzling money pit while making medical professionals waste valuable time with his retarded regulations

2) bringing the Olympics to Chicago

3) playing golf / vacationing

everything else just gets in the way of the lazy aloof unprepared ignorant race baiting sack of shit pure scum president

 

[SheriffJoe]

Bombs away!

Syria crisis: Massive Russian air strikes on 'IS targets'

But President Vladimir Putin said the current level of attacks was not enough to defeat so-called Islamic State (IS).

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34882503

 

[GasMan]

Earlier this week one of the nitwit conservatives was here blaming Obama for a huge amount of civilian deaths on his drones and bombs. Now we see he tries to minimize civilian casualties and you guys don't like that either. Yet another issues republicans want both sides of.

idiots

Yup, just ignore the issue at hand with some red herring. I will give you credit, you are very good at defelcting attention away from what matters. Maybe your signature should be Bagdad Bob?

 

[vitterd]

Yup, just ignore the issue at hand with some red herring. I will give you credit, you are very good at defelcting attention away from what matters. Maybe your signature should be Bagdad Bob?

What would you like me to address? He's killed way more civilians than bush when dropping these bombs.....do you realize that makes bush even more careful where he killed terrorists. If anything Bush did a better job trying to limit civilian deaths. Do you have a problem with him? Is he a Muslim ?

why wouldn't you want a president to be cautious about something like this? If there is a terrorist camp in Mississippi will you be okay with a bomb that levels your neighborhood?

think a little first

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Is there any doubt he is a Muslim and/or Muslim sympathizer?

Good fucking grief, are the liberals blind, in denial or just flat out fucking stupid. Amazing.


Now you have John Kerry saying the killing of the Hebdo people is "justified".

What the fuck is going on with you liberal dickheads?

That would be an emphatic NO!

 

[Seymour]

The notion there are any "civilians" remaining in Raqqa is laughable.

Anyone still living in a city where Christian churches have been burned to the ground and al-Qaeda and ISIS flags fly on every building have embraced ISIS, as Germans did Hitler.


That city should be carpet bombed to dust, yes including mosques.

Kill 20,000 now, save a million later.

"innocent civilians"

"women and orphans"

...only in liberal la-la land.

Will the real men in Congress please stand up and remove this faggot traitor of a 'president' before we lose any more ground to these ruthless savages?

Yes, including mosques? like there is any question - that should be the starting point

 

[SheriffJoe]

Jack Keane, a retired four-star U.S. general, agreed with Royce’s assessment of the administration’s policy and blamed President Barack Obama for issuing orders that severely constrain the U.S. military from combatting terror forces.

“This has been an absurdity from the beginning,” Keane said in response to questions from Royce. “The president personally made a statement that has driven air power from the inception.”

“When we agreed we were going to do airpower and the military said, this is how it would work, he [Obama] said, ‘No, I do not want any civilian casualties,’” Keane explained. “And the response was, ‘But there’s always some civilian casualties. We have the best capability in the world to protect from civilians casualties.’”

However, Obama’s response was, “No, you don’t understand. I want no civilian casualties. Zero,’” Keane continued. “So that has driven our so-called rules of engagement to a degree we have never had in any previous air campaign from desert storm to the present.”

* * *
“Believe me,” Keane added, “the French are in there not using the restrictions we have imposed on our pilots.”

And the same goes for Russians, he said, adding, “They don’t care at all about civilians.”

:hanging:uppy:

 

[superbeets]

Obama speakng now Kuala Lumpar

Huge parts of his speech about ISIS, once again moving from what should be the ISIS threat, he talks about.

Differentiating between ISIS and ISLAM.

The USA is not in any kind of war against Islam

He really wants to make that differential.

We need to maintain our values.
He says Muslim leaders of Muslim communities around the world are now starting to step up, and coming together to counter the extremist measures.




He is such a arrogant clown, so embroiled in trying to differentiate Islam from ISIS, that the whole message that was supposed to be about the evil that needs to be destroyed rapidly.


The same old slowly slowly careful approach will continue.

 

[superbeets]

[h=1]Vladimir Putin is right. We must aim to destroy Isis at all costs[/h]

A still from the Isis-released video in Palmyra AFP





Evgeny Lebedev

Seventy years ago, Russia and the West were riven by ideological differences. And yet they came together to defeat Nazism. In our time, the greatest threat to humanity is Islamist in nature, and our failure to defeat it is a direct cause of this refugee crisis. I agree with the Financial Times's Edward Luce, who argued yesterday that Syria may come to haunt Obama, because his indecision and false threats about crossing “red lines” has made him look weak.



Obama's whole approach to foreign affairs is conciliatory: witness his rapprochement with Iran and Cuba. Here, then, is a golden opportunity. I do not say Assad is a long-term ally. But Isis is a short-term, mortal danger. Putin is prepared to support efforts to defeat it.

 

[superbeets]

[h=1]11 militants from ISIS-linked gang killed in anti-terror op in Russia’s North Caucasus[/h]Published time: 22 Nov, 2015 08:45Edited time: 22 Nov, 2015 09:26

Russian special forces have killed 11 militants from a gang that swore allegiance to Islamic State, according to National Counter-Terrorist Committee. The counter-terrorist operation is continuing in a mountainous region near the city of Nalchik in Russia’s North Caucasus.


The firefight between police and the militants started on early Sunday morning in woodland adjacent to Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, where counter-terrorist operation was announced on Saturday. A unit searching a territory near the city spotted a group of militants in a dug-out.
The special unit blocked the area and surrounded the bunker, advising the militants to surrender, but the group answered with fire from automatic weapons and threw several grenades.
The first skirmish with the militants resulted in reported five dead among the group. Later on the number of deceased terrorists grew to eleven, National Counter-Terrorist Committee reports. No battle losses among the law enforcement have been reported.
The end of the operation has not been officially announced yet.
On November 10, another counter-terrorist operation in Nalchik ended with Robert Zankishiev, a leader of a local Islamic State cell, being killed.

 

[GasMan]

What would you like me to address? He's killed way more civilians than bush when dropping these bombs.....do you realize that makes bush even more careful where he killed terrorists. If anything Bush did a better job trying to limit civilian deaths. Do you have a problem with him? Is he a Muslim ?

why wouldn't you want a president to be cautious about something like this? If there is a terrorist camp in Mississippi will you be okay with a bomb that levels your neighborhood?

think a little first

We're not talking about a town in the US..we are talking about a town which flies the ISIS flag on every building. Like Joe says..any innocent civilians are long gone and the ones who are left are supporting terrorism in their own way, by assisting ISIS..whether it be treating them and their families in their hospitals, or providing food for them from their market. Either way, I don't give a rats ass about collateral damage. You will never here me ever say anything about it, blame Obama, or whatever. The more of them dead the less there are to multiply. End of story.

 

[vitterd]

We're not talking about a town in the US..we are talking about a town which flies the ISIS flag on every building. Like Joe says..any innocent civilians are long gone and the ones who are left are supporting terrorism in their own way, by assisting ISIS..whether it be treating them and their families in their hospitals, or providing food for them from their market. Either way, I don't give a rats ass about collateral damage. You will never here me ever say anything about it, blame Obama, or whatever. The more of them dead the less there are to multiply. End of story.

Well you should be more angry with Bush then.....he was way more concerned about it. And honestly, Joe has no idea who is where in these regions. I'm pretty sure our govt has better knowledge then some dude in Canada.

the more of them dead the better ......is easy to say from your perspective.

 

[GasMan]

Bush caved to political pressure....thanks to your left wing media. Remember the death counts daily running on CNN and the other shill Democrat networks? Same reason Obama "PULLED ALL TROOPS" out of Iraq...it fit the left wing anti Bush narrative to try to get the Repubs out of office. It worked, now where is the media calling for treason and war crimes for Obama?
Sucks, but it's fact. Our media is very dangerous. You can look at Fox and say what you want, but they give an alternative view of the left wing agenda. So be it.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Russia Says U.S. Policies Helped Islamic State, Interfax Reports

Elena Mazneva

November 22, 2015 — 6:26 AM ESTUpdated on November 22, 2015 — 12:28 PM EST

U.S. actions in the Middle East helped Islamic State to gain influence, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, according to Interfax.

The strengthening of Islamic State “became possible partly due to irresponsible U.S. politics” that focused on fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad instead of joining efforts to root out terrorism, Medvedev was cited as saying in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. President Barack Obama earlier on Sunday said that Russia is facing a strategic choice as Assad can’t stay. The Obama administration declined to comment Sunday on Medvedev’s statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-22/russia-calls-for-un-brokered-moves-in-fighting-terror-ifx-says

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