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50 soldiers killed in ISIS attack on Egyptian Army's Sinai checkpoints

I wait for your opinion.

Answered in a previous post. Mission Accomplished was for the Carrier and its service but the left knew that their parrots would speak the party line.
 
Yep, didn't expect much less from you but the Mission Accomplished Banner was misinterpreted by the left knowing people like you would buy the rhetoric. Mission Accomplished was for the Carrier and its mission. If it was for the war he would have done it in Baghdad

CNN.com - Bush makes historic speech aboard warship - May. 1, 2003
The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.

The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001 and still goes on.
 
Answered in a previous post. Mission Accomplished was for the Carrier and its service but the left knew that their parrots would speak the party line.

As to the banner, it spoke volumes.
I was also referring to the speech.
Still waiting on your opinion of the speech?
Or are ya gonna sit back and peck at a phrase or 2?
 
I think we should be doing much, much more to combat ISIS and to advance our interests in the region. That being said I'm not sure how the Obama administration was supposed to stop an attack on an Egyptian military outpost in the Sinai desert.
 
Yep, didn't expect much less from you but the Mission Accomplished Banner was misinterpreted by the left knowing people like you would buy the rhetoric. Mission Accomplished was for the Carrier and its mission. If it was for the war he would have done it in Baghdad

Update with your piece on the Egyptians Conservative. Sisi is vowing to go after them.



Islamic State insurgents attacked several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday in a co-ordinated assault that killed more than 100 people - one of the biggest militant strikes in Egypt's modern history. Soldiers, policemen, civilians and militants were among the dead.

Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate, Sinai Province, claimed responsibility and said that it had attacked more than 15 security sites and carried out three suicide bombings. Egypt's armed forces said that at least 100 militants and 17 soldiers had been killed. One security source said about 300 militants, armed with heavy weapons and anti-aircraft weaponry, had taken part in the attacks while the army said five checkpoints were hit and the fighting had raged for more than eight hours.

"This incident is a game-changer," an official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.....snip~

Islamic State attack in Egypt's North Sinai kills more than 100
 
Yes, exactly. Bush said the mission was not accomplished, that 'our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq".

It was later claimed by Obama that he was “leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.” The ignorance of Barry Obama can only be exceeded by those who voted for him.
 
I think we should be doing much, much more to combat ISIS and to advance our interests in the region. That being said I'm not sure how the Obama administration was supposed to stop an attack on an Egyptian military outpost in the Sinai desert.
He could have organized a Coalition to wipe them out before they began taking over the region and murdering, raping, beheading, etc, in the process.

But Obama would rather decorate the White House in rainbow colors, or increase racial tensions at home.
 
Really? 9/11/01 compared to when we went into Iraq? What date was that again? Seems that you want badly to focus on what Bush did and not what Congress authorized and what Obama is doing about it now. Love foreigners like you who are so arrogant that they don't truly understand who saved their asses.

Post 9/11 Bush needed a big pile of dead Muslims to present to the angry American public in order to secure his second term. They couldn't find the guy they had chosen as being responsible for 9/11 in Afghsnistan and the Taliban were elusive and difficult to kill in large numbers. Doing nothing more would have been electoral suicide for Bush. Iraq was the perfect patsy. They had blotted their copybook before so it was an easy sell given most Americans couldn't even point to Iraq on a map anyway. It worked a treat. Bush got his second term and anti Muslim vengeance was served. Lets be honest nobody in the US really cared what happened in Iraq after that because it had served its purpose. The aftermath is what we see today

PS. The Russians 'saved all our asses' long before you lot got seriously involved in WW2
 
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I think we should be doing much, much more to combat ISIS and to advance our interests in the region. That being said I'm not sure how the Obama administration was supposed to stop an attack on an Egyptian military outpost in the Sinai desert.


Heya Sherman, :2wave: Those border crossing between Iraq and Syria do need to be taken and closed off from Daesh. Same with the one on Turkey's Border.

I think BO should make that known to the Europeans and give a big hint with who he wants in on it. Then get the Iraqis up there to stand and hold them. Even if it means some Special Operations troops stick around to make sure the Iraqis hold.

Naturally some other objectives should be taken on at the same time. The physicality of Daesh should be given a major blow. Coordinated attacks from several different countries and the destruction of Raqqa, commenced on the same day. The Demoralization then can begin.
 
Last time I checked all of Iraq was under Iraqi control when Bush left office and ISIS was out of the country. Last I checked ISIS wasn't attacking Kabul when Bush was in office either.
Wrong. Isis was never there to start with; they were not even formed yet.
 
Apparently the Senate intelligence committee found evidence that Saddam Hussein was indeed working on a WMD program and was funding and supporting Terrorism. I believe that Senate Intelligence Committee was under Democrat Control. I also believe that Bill Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998. Suggest you contact them or do research as to their authorization of the war

And that has what to do with the attack of 9/11? Do you believe that Iraq was behind it?
 
Thank you for your service. Do you have the same feeling about fighting a war as my family members? Yes, I served during the Vietnam war and watched D.C. micro manage that war and see history repeating itself today. My Dad served at Pearl Harbor and my father in law was at Normandy. You fight wars to win them and that isn't what we did in Iraq
We have a point of agreement here.
 
As to the banner, it spoke volumes.
I was also referring to the speech.
Still waiting on your opinion of the speech?
Or are ya gonna sit back and peck at a phrase or 2?

The speech is quite clear, it is going to take time and we are going to see it through.
 
Post 9/11 Bush needed a big pile of dead Muslims to present to the angry American public in order to secure his second term. They couldn't find the guy they had chosen as being responsible for 9/11 in Afghsnistan and the Taliban were elusive and difficult to kill in large numbers. Doing nothing more would have been electoral suicide for Bush. Iraq was the perfect patsy. They had blotted their copybook before so it was an easy sell given most Americans couldn't even point to Iraq on a map anyway. It worked a treat. Bush got his second term and anti Muslim vengeance was served. Lets be honest nobody in the US really cared what happened in Iraq after that because it had served its purpose. The aftermath is what we see today

PS. The Russians 'saved all our asses' long before you lot got seriously involved in WW2

Your "expert" opinion about the U.S. elections is quite telling.

Don't see you calling anyone comrade these days thanks of course to the Russians
 
Wrong. Isis was never there to start with; they were not even formed yet.

Very good thus Bush didn't create ISIS, the withdrawal of American Troops did and they are taking over Iraq
 
And that has what to do with the attack of 9/11? Do you believe that Iraq was behind it?

Read the 9/11 Commission report and Saddam Hussein's involvement with terrorism along with is strong desire for WMD and use of them.
 
Very good thus Bush didn't create ISIS, the withdrawal of American Troops did and they are taking over Iraq
and, as long as the debacle can be blamed on a Democrat, it's all well and good. But, the actual situation in the Middle East is infinitely worse than it was before the invasion took place.
 
and, as long as the debacle can be blamed on a Democrat, it's all well and good. But, the actual situation in the Middle East is infinitely worse than it was before the invasion took place.

What is evident now is the coverage is greater than it was before the war so how do you know? Things were much better after the surge and while U.S. troops were on the ground. They deteriorated after the troops left the country exactly as predicted
 
Very good thus Bush didn't create ISIS, the withdrawal of American Troops did and they are taking over Iraq
Wrong again.

The ISIS Creation Myth (Newsweek)

Yet the story of ISIS’s rise is far more complex, former U.S. officials and Middle East analysts say. While both Bush and Obama deserve some blame, ISIS could not have become such a battle-hardened, well-funded jihadi group without the help of leaders and sympathizers in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the Sunni monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Their support for ISIS—over Washington’s objections—underscores the limits of American power and influence in the region. As Douglas Ollivant, a former director for Iraq on the National Security Council for both Bush and Obama, puts it: “We Americans are the supporting cast, not the lead actors.”
 
Exactly, I was talking about the mission accomplished banner that liberals point to as Bush taking credit for victory in Iraq. That wasn't the case at all and your post shows that

My post.
12 years, 2 months ago.
Bush, May 1, 2003, aboard an Aircraft Carrier. Bring back any memories?
The banner- the speech?

Misinterpreted by the left?- the banner- Great photo op- and it was used as such.

Now the speech.
CNN.com - Bush makes historic speech aboard warship - May. 1, 2003

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We have removed an ally of Al Qaida and cut off a source of terrorist funding.


AQ and Saddam- Right - you still buy that BS?
 
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