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Marines being surrounded in Iraq?

What should President do about Marines surrounded at Al-Asad Air Base?


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320 Marines at the massive al-Asad Air Base are being surrounded by ISIS fighters, ISIS having essentially overrun the neighorboring city of al-Baghdadi and the al-Baghdadi district.

There have numerous suicide runs at the base which also has been hit with mortars.

BREAKING: Reports Claim ISIS Just Captured al-Asad Air Base Where 300 U.S. Marines Could Be Trapped (UPDATED) | LibertyNEWS.com

ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base


What should the response of President Obama be?
 
320 Marines at the massive al-Asad Air Base are being surrounded by ISIS fighters, ISIS having essentially overrun the neighorboring city of al-Baghdadi and the al-Baghdadi district.

There have numerous suicide runs at the base which also has been hit with mortars.

BREAKING: Reports Claim ISIS Just Captured al-Asad Air Base Where 300 U.S. Marines Could Be Trapped (UPDATED) | LibertyNEWS.com

ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base


What should the response of President Obama be?

It depends on how much he wants to keep our people out of direct combat.

Of course we are not privy to the real assessments, so a lot of this is theoretical. If the base is in real danger of being overrun in the near future, we need to get these guys out and to a place where they have a reasonable expectation of safety.

If they are simply close to danger, but no reasonable expectation the base is under threat of being overrun, then proceed with the mission with contingencies in place.
 
320 Marines at the massive al-Asad Air Base are being surrounded by ISIS fighters, ISIS having essentially overrun the neighorboring city of al-Baghdadi and the al-Baghdadi district.

There have numerous suicide runs at the base which also has been hit with mortars.

BREAKING: Reports Claim ISIS Just Captured al-Asad Air Base Where 300 U.S. Marines Could Be Trapped (UPDATED) | LibertyNEWS.com

ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base


What should the response of President Obama be?

Throw himself on his sword.

Uups! I had forgotten about Biden.
 
This is serious s*** and a Custer style massacre could be in the making. Obama needs to either get in or get out, this halfway half ass war on ISIS is a recipe for disaster.
 
I'd like to know who voted anonymously that the Marines should surrender.
 
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It would not surprise me that Obama deliberately threw our forces in "harms way" as a pretext for war.

Remove them. They don't belong there.
 
That's despicable.
 
320 Marines at the massive al-Asad Air Base are being surrounded by ISIS fighters, ISIS having essentially overrun the neighorboring city of al-Baghdadi and the al-Baghdadi district.

There have numerous suicide runs at the base which also has been hit with mortars.

BREAKING: Reports Claim ISIS Just Captured al-Asad Air Base Where 300 U.S. Marines Could Be Trapped (UPDATED) | LibertyNEWS.com

ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base


What should the response of President Obama be?

What should the president do?

Like a good little lamb, Obama needs to shut the **** up and step back and let people who are vested in our military efforts and know a thing or two about it make decisions. The less he does, the better. He's a spineless fish of a dickweed who spites our men in uniform and never considers that maybe making decisions about military tactics is above his paygrade.

Give him a camera - let him take some more selfies and just get the **** out of the way if he's not going to be impeached like he should be.
 
This is serious s*** and a Custer style massacre could be in the making. Obama needs to either get in or get out, this halfway half ass war on ISIS is a recipe for disaster.

Don't worry BO peeps Admiral Kirby said that ISIS doesn't know how to target with the mortars. So all should be okay. Plus there is support from the Iraqis in Baghdad. There they are like a good 60k strong. So ISIS can't really trap our people.

Team BO has it all worked out.....this is the JV Team remember.
 
Mortar and suicidal ISIS fighters against the marines. Sounds like ME war Z.
 
Any harm comes to those Marines and Obama should be tried as a traitor. Anyone who disagrees should be tried along side him.

The only people being 'contained' are our Marines.
 
Any harm comes to those Marines and Obama should be tried as a traitor. Anyone who disagrees should be tried along side him.

The only people being 'contained' are our Marines.

I don't think you know what "treason" means.
 
All reports I've seen here indicate that the base and those inside aren't in any danger, particularly not the US Marines who were nowhere near the fighting that took place. Seems 25 ISIS fighters and suicide bombers, dressed as Iraqi soldiers, attempted to breach the defenses of the base and were pushed back and killed by the Iraqi forces in charge of base security. Reports also indicated that when under attack, the base called for and received cover from US Apache helicopters and armed drones but they were not needed because the Iraqi ground forces ended the assault.

A handful of ISIS fighters attacking a well fortified base is no need for any of the suggestions in the poll and the very thought that 320 US Marines would surrender to 25 ISIS fighters is incredibly offensive, in my view.
 
320 Marines at the massive al-Asad Air Base are being surrounded by ISIS fighters, ISIS having essentially overrun the neighorboring city of al-Baghdadi and the al-Baghdadi district.

There have numerous suicide runs at the base which also has been hit with mortars.

BREAKING: Reports Claim ISIS Just Captured al-Asad Air Base Where 300 U.S. Marines Could Be Trapped (UPDATED) | LibertyNEWS.com

ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base


What should the response of President Obama be?

More selfies. Too cold for golf.
 
320 Marines at the massive al-Asad Air Base are being surrounded by ISIS fighters, ISIS having essentially overrun the neighorboring city of al-Baghdadi and the al-Baghdadi district.

There have numerous suicide runs at the base which also has been hit with mortars.

BREAKING: Reports Claim ISIS Just Captured al-Asad Air Base Where 300 U.S. Marines Could Be Trapped (UPDATED) | LibertyNEWS.com

ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base


What should the response of President Obama be?

One marine, properly supplied, is worth 100 ISIS fighters. I dont envy the enemies position if the Marines are given the option to fight.

Obamas response should be to give the generals free reign to defend their position.

A field commander of the Iraqi Army in Anbar province, said that "the US force equipped with light and medium weapons, supported by fighter force model" F-18 ", was able to inflict casualties against fighters of ISIS organization, and forced them to retreat from the al-Dolab area, which lies 10 kilometers from Ain al-Assad base .

US troops have entered with its Iraqi partner, according to Colonel , Salam Nazim in line against ISIS elements and clashed with them for more than two hours, to succeed in removing them from al-Dolab area, and causing losses in their ranks, at a time American fighter jets directed several strikes focused on ISIS gatherings that silenced their heavy sources of fire. "He points out that the clashes took place between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Sunday night.

First ground clash between ISIS and US forces in Iraq
 
It's never too cold for golf. Golf started in Scotland. :roll:

I'm part Scotch... and part beer. But I can tell ya that the Scotch are crazy - they wear kilts and eat sheep guts. I hear they have blue balls when playing in the snow.
 
Ha! Jesus Christ. Send mode troops!
 
I'm part Scotch... and part beer. But I can tell ya that the Scotch are crazy - they wear kilts and eat sheep guts. I hear they have blue balls when playing in the snow.

Yeah, but what will they call them playing in the desert? :shock: ..... :2razz:
 
I'm part Scotch... and part beer. But I can tell ya that the Scotch are crazy - they wear kilts and eat sheep guts. I hear they have blue balls when playing in the snow.

Had you really been part Scots, you'd have known that Scotch is a drink, not a nationality. Is this one of those cases where spurious internet claims aft gang a'gley?
 
Had you really been part Scots, you'd have known that Scotch is a drink, not a nationality. Is this one of those cases where spurious internet claims aft gang a'gley?

My family hails from near Durham. A little bit Scot because of the interlopers, but more Scotch than anything, I think. Haven't talked to any of 'em in a while. Maybe they've sobered up.
 
My family hails from near Durham. A little bit Scot because of the interlopers, but more Scotch than anything, I think. Haven't talked to any of 'em in a while. Maybe they've sobered up.

Nice.....from Durham, huh. Does that make them Highlanders, cuz I heard there can only be one. :2razz:
 
Nice.....from Durham, huh. Does that make them Highlanders, cuz I heard there can only be one. :2razz:

They're all over the place over there now. They're too prolific to be Highlanders. It's like being a "Smith" or a "Jones" over here. There's waaaay more than one.
 
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