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pdxmattel
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Dec 22 2018 12:25AM more by pdxmattel
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Leaving your soldiers behind is abhorrent to Troops in the field. For a few years, we have partnered with the Kurds to take back territory in Syria from ISIS. The Kurds in both Iraq and Syria suffered under ISIS when their areas were occupied. In taking back territory from ISIS, the Kurds have lost around 10,000 soldiers, while the US has had 4 killed, 2 in combat and 2 in an accident.

Trump's pullout, while ISIS still has 10,000 - 20,000 in the area is distressing enough, but doing it after Turkey has threatened to wipe out our Kurdish allies is dead wrong... Was is bought and paid for with an arms sale? Or as a gift to Putin? For whatever reason, one result will be too open up a key pathway for the Iranians into Southern Syria... And a serious Black mark against the U.S. in any future effort to build an alliance.

General Mattis had it right in his resignation letter.

      
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InsearchofStarfish
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Dec 22 2018 04:04AM     link to this

i am sure there is a lot more to the story vs what is being fed to you...is that possible in this day?

the machine is up and running on high right now








thedon60
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Dec 22 2018 08:26AM     link to this

For once Trump got it right. It’s been a pointless war The whole war on terror has been a terrible waste.
jimmyDee
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Dec 22 2018 09:52AM     link to this

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent military forces to areas controlled by the Kurdish YPG group in north-east Syria, Turkey’s Yenisafak newspaper reported.

The paper said the forces will be stationed with US-led coalition troops and will support its tasks with huge military enforcements as well as heavy and light weapons.


Quoting the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the newspaper reported that a convoy of troops belonging to an Arab Gulf state recently arrived in the contact area between the Kurdish PKK/YPG and Daesh in the Deir Ez-Zor countryside.

This comes at a time when Ankara is preparing to launch an expanded military operation with the Free Syrian Army against the Kurdish PKK group in the northeast of Syria. (read more)
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Dec 22 2018 03:32PM     link to this

if I can't pay cash I don't buy it

fighting wars all over the world on a credit card is stupid

and any people that buy an American promise to fight their battle are just dumb enough to be exterminated

America needs to bring it's people home and stay home and lock the doors (Borders)

fuck the rest of the world
jazz51
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Dec 22 2018 03:48PM     link to this

Folks, we only have 2,000 troops in Syria in training and advisory activities. It isn't like we have 20,000 men on the ground there.
Grumpy
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Dec 22 2018 04:27PM     link to this

That YouTube video was awesome. Text them Iraqi pussies are too afraid to fight for their country. That CO is on point.
We had the same problem in Yam with the South Vietnamese.
jimmyDee
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Dec 22 2018 09:38PM     link to this

You can give a man food, water and money but you can't give him heart.

They dont have heart, I trained and fought with them. And i lost brothers and sisters doing this.


Time to walk away 18 years is plenty of time
oldbaldy69
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Dec 22 2018 09:47PM     link to this

give a man a fish and he will eat for a day

teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day

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Dec 22 2018 10:23PM     link to this

Mattis and McGurk can go to Syria and join their Kurdish Antifa brothers if they really want to.
Grumpy
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Dec 23 2018 05:07AM     link to this

Trump has good views. I just hate his fucking face.
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Dec 23 2018 06:26AM     link to this

This is disgusting... leaving the Kurds to fend for themselves. Turkey is already at the border.
If anything it's bad karma. Now putin has Syria without any US military to watch out for.
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Dec 23 2018 09:07AM     link to this

You guys that are complaining about the pullout now, were you then against when Cheney invaded Iraq? All the defense guys were for that Iraq war. Defense guys always like war, keeps them in business. Today if Trump invade a country in that region will you support him. In that stone age region, someone is fighting someone always. Please let them kill each other.
Grumpy
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Dec 23 2018 09:33AM     link to this

I would support anybody, except for Trump because of his fucking face.
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Dec 23 2018 09:35AM     link to this

Bump the grump
Bump the grump
Bump the grump
misterC80
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Dec 23 2018 10:31AM     link to this

How times have changed.
coolhotavi50
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Dec 23 2018 12:38PM     link to this

Another premature AMERICAN �pull out� lol.
It�s funny how trump at one moment praise military commanders get as and the moment they say truth or against t him they become he flips on them and declare them enemies of nation

# paper tiger
# first meddling in world affairs then leaving Allies behind
mjcjmjcj
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Dec 23 2018 02:33PM     link to this

Those two thousand troops were preventing ww three?
TheAlterEgo
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Dec 23 2018 02:35PM     link to this

Mattis did carry a big stick...big loss for the
Trump administration...
coolhotavi50
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Dec 23 2018 02:45PM     link to this

Very well said @ fisherWright
Next time world will go to Russia for help because Putin is at least man of his words he is sticking with Assad for better or worse, made a looser Assad a winner
We went to Afghanistan in 80s and left early created Bin laden
We went to Iraq and left early and gave that country and oil on silver plate to Iran and created ISIS
Now leaving again unfinished trusting Turkey to kill their Enemy Kurds who helped America In Iraq and Syria lol what a shameful day !!!!! And we are making America great again with that and world leader

Probably Trump is doing this to make Turkey happy so Turkey don’t release the tape of khashoggi killing to keep His soaudi prince friend safe , and for his investment in kingdom
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Dec 23 2018 04:09PM     link to this

A lot of people seem uninformed here. The Kurds we support in Syria are the communist Kurds
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Antifa get training in Syria
Communists from as join YPG
wcoastguy
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Dec 23 2018 04:17PM     link to this

A lot of people seem uninformed here. The Kurds we supported in Syria are the communist Kurds and they train Antifa members. Vegas shooter was one of them. Law enforcement found Antifa materials and a pic from Syria in his room. We created Al-Qaeda 2.0.
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thedon60
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Dec 23 2018 05:43PM     link to this

Could the endless war being waged by US finally be coming to an end?!! By the way did anyone notice that the folks who are attacking Trumps proposed pullout are the very same folks who got us into this mess in the first place and have kept up in this mess for 16 plus years. It are these folks including Mathis who now start complaining about abandoning our allies, a vacuum for ISIS etc.
Apparently the countries we invaded have never been happy with us anyway. Good riddance
Grumpy
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Dec 23 2018 05:53PM     link to this

Did you guys know America is the largest producer of terrorists.
Himes_Soul
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Dec 23 2018 05:54PM     link to this

^ Terrorist #1

Grumpy
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Dec 23 2018 05:57PM     link to this

Not anymore .
Doj boys already raided my spot.
oldbaldy69
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Dec 23 2018 07:01PM     link to this

when I say that Vaping is better than smoking cigarettes, I don't mean that everyone should start vaping - I just meant it's the better choice

when we elected Trump to be president, it didn't mean we really wanted him - it just meant that we really, really, really didn't want Hillary

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