| | | Why Did Obama Refuse to Stop ISIS Conquest of Ramadi w/Air Strikes?
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The U.S. watched Islamic State fighters, vehicles and heavy equipment gather on the outskirts of Ramadi before the group retook the city in mid-May. But the U.S. did not order airstrikes against the convoys before the battle started. It left the fighting to Iraqi troops, who ultimately abandoned their positions.
U.S. intelligence and military officials told me recently, on the condition of anonymity, that the U.S. had significant intelligence about the pending Islamic State offensive in Ramadi. For the U.S. military, it was an open secret even at the time.
The U.S. intelligence community had good warning that the Islamic State intended a new and bolder offensive on Ramadi because it was able to identify the convoys of heavy artillery, vehicle bombs and reinforcements through overhead imagery and eavesdropping on chatter from local Islamic State commanders. It surprised no one, one U.S. intelligence official told me.
Dave Deptula, a retired general who was the first deputy chief of staff for the Air Force for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, told me that airmen flying sorties in Iraq “have to call back and ask, ‘mother may I’ before they can engage.”
Deptula agreed. “The current rules of engagement are intentionally designed to restrict the effectiveness of air power to prevent potential collateral damage,” he told me. “That results in ISIS getting the freedom of action so they can commit genocide against civilians. Does this make any sense?”
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/why-did-obama-refuse-to-stop-isis-conquest-of-ramadi-wair-strikes/
Obama once armed and financed ISIS. The videos of ISIS boasting to the world about their barbarities, have only forced Obama to PRETEND to fight them. ISIS will only get stronger and commit many, many more atrocities under this President ... and that's not an accident. |
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