A civilian contractor was killed and a US service member was injured along with eight other contractors when rocket fire landed on coalition forces near Erbil International Airport in Iraq, said Col. Wayne Marotto, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve.
#CNN #News
A rocket? My goodness how casual we’ve become with our choice of words
Give it a few years; they’ll call it a nuke in that time.
@Tikka Masala remember “ground zero”
Liberal males love rump rockets 😳
https://youtu.be/p_gWg2W4nY4
come on guys people died and are hurt. Americans. let’s be respectful.
Rtis that
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
oh good
*Welp. Republicans better investigate this for the next 5 years..*
@Travis I encounted this report which is also interesting
Trump Inherited the Drone War but Ditched Accountability – Only a single formal check remains on U.S. killings worldwide.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-killings-count/
which seems to imply that all the metrics we do have have been way undercounting the Trump done kill count even with it being so high.
@Erik Anderson Yes privacy. When you alert the public of something you are also alerting the world. Figures were not provided prior to Obama. Changing it back to that way would be considerer reverting back to how it was.
The new Benghazi!
@Erik Anderson Using a Chicago paper as your source. They are discussing drone strikes not deaths. Considering the death counts are not accurate for either administration you can’t possibly know what you claim. Also as technology increases and we move towards unmanned combat you should expect to see more drone strikes vs anything else.
@Erik Anderson There’s one important fact that many of us have a hard time coming to terms with. Some of these organizations have no problem using children as shields or even weapons unfortunately. I can’t imagine having to shoot a child to protect myself or others from being killed.
US should leave those people country
Leave Middle East. Why US sitting in middle East. Let arabs deal within their ranks. US destroyed whole Iraq Syria Libya Yemen with hands full of blood of human..
Pretty sure a rocket would be way bigger. Looks like some kids got a little too much fire power and stopped some traffic.
It’s not a movie
Pretty sure you don’t know what you are talking about.
Did you see the concrete wall ?
Now imagine that was a body !!
Fireworks ? 🙄
Democrats will use whatever excuse possible to go to war
https://youtu.be/p_gWg2W4nY4
@William H Music 2021 bro wtf you scared me
Get our troops out of there.
@Patriotically Incorrect what, no “W”?
@Van Man huh..? I dont get it
@Argyle Jorgen That’s why i said thank god. it’s ok to call out your guy. I gave him credit back in the day for not starting a war with russia. I mean yeah he sent warships over there and sanction the crap out of them. Sad that that’s the new bar now.
@Van Man Yes, Dubya and the clinton crime family as well.
@Argyle Jorgen I’m not surprised. I completely effed it up, was intended for “Richard von peckerhead”. Or is it von pingel? I can’t see it from here. Sorry dude.
America needs to take care of it’s own issues and we got a lot.
@Jason Sabbath if the US is richest country in the world, how is it that the US is in so much debt? The US didn’t even make the top 10 richest countries in the world in 2020. It ranked #11👀(Look it up). Don’t listen to media talking points and take what they say as fact. You’ll fall off a cliff being that gullible. A lot of what you have stated can and has been easily refuted so I will not go down that rabbit whole. Just do your research so you can have the right information when arguing your point. Have a wonderful evening…
G’day,
Ahh, Grasshoppities…, the problem with that there Hypothesis, y’see, would of course be ; the Clause whereinat it be written that,
“You
Broke it…;
Therefore thus & because…,
You now
OWN it…!”
That being a well-known and infininely Fractal Karmic Feedback-Loop, operatin’ within the Matrix of Kosmic Scoreboard-Effect…; by way of which the entire known Living Universe is seen to be operatin’ …(!).
And, so, for as long as Unkle Spam persists on insisting that AmeriKa be permitted to excercise Command & Control over the Armed Shards of the Poltically-radicalised and fragmented Local Yokels still resident wherever AmeriKa has chosen to have itself a little Waaauuugh(!) or three over the last 30 years – all to generate endless Resupply Contracts for the US Military Industrial Complex, or to please King Saud…; the end result is that the only way for Unkle Spam to stop paying the Butchers’ Bill is to listen to and be guided by to the time-honoured Songline.
“Go Home
Yanqui
Go Home,
Fcuk-off…!
Go Home
Yanqui
Fcuk-off,
Right now !
Go Home
Yanqui,
Don’t delay.
Do it TODAY…;
Go Home
Yanqui
Go now…!”
Or, words to that effect…
All the Returned Combat Veterans & Drones can be readily re-targetted, after all…, chasing after the Insurrectionists & Trumpist Insurgents, and Wannabe Tewwowithts, currently swarming claimed to be hatching & swarming like a Plague of Locusts, all over the Continental 48… (OuuuRaaahhh ?).
It can become Haliburton’s next big sustained Growth Industry (!) ?
Such is life.
Have a good one…
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Just(ifiably ?) sayin’.
@Samantha Brett because countries don’t operate like households. The national debt is different from yours or my debt. We determine the richest country by GDP. Ours is number 1. One of the biggest resource drains are US corporations who don’t pay taxes. As is currently set up, the vanishing middle class and lower class are picking up the biggest part of the so called tax burden. The loopholes that exist to keep the wealthy, wealthy, are staggering. If we put Sen. Warren’s tax on the rich in effect, the rich will still be wealthy, and we can actually pay for so many more domestic programs than we do, comfortably. The debt is wholly different from the debt normal people carry and it doesn’t penalize in the same way.
https://parstoday.com/en/news/west_asia-i130744-iraq_to_sue_us_over_sovereignty_violation_use_of_depleted_uranium_weapons_official
https://www.france24.com/en/20200105-iraq-parliament-passes-resolution-to-expel-us-led-coalition-troops-from-country
You gotta fight like hell…. US foes have finally stopped laughing their asses off at Trump and the election….. The 2016 election.
So someone got the contact someone else wanted and this is retribution? Or the start of a gang war kinda thing? Find some real news ladies. Are you That starved for attention?
I’m just trying to figure out if there was a security camera or some just so happened to be filming a boring street with nothing record worthy going on at the exact time something like this happens. If it’s a handheld camera then I would look to the person recording the perfect angle at the perfect time in the right spot…
It’s cctv they have lots of them there
@No name Required Yeah, all CCTV cams are rocking in every direction with a light breeze.
Ftis that
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
oh good
Rocket? Yah, bottle rocket.
Yeah it does not seem to be that much, but I am no rocket expert.
I say we treat it like Trump treated the virus, this will magically go away when it gets warmer
i agree. not to mention, congress made attacking the u.s. protected speech.
It was not news worthy because we know Trump was ignoring the Iraq issue for years. its news because now we get to see how Biden will react
The sound tech must not really want us to hear this
Geeee that didn’t take long did it lol.
Why are we still there?! We have our own problems to worry about!
That is very true. Unfortunately the reason we need presences over there is because one. We provide special skills that the people of those countries don’t have the knowledge or skill base on their own. For example, we helped them build up the airport taxiway because the original construction was done terribly wrong and would of failed and most likely caused some damage to expensive aircraft.
Secondly we need presences over there because its like all wild west out there. If we didn’t have our foot in the country to hold things down it would be like a 3rd grade class without a teacher in the room. All hell would break lose worse than it always is. Believe it or not the US does do good for those countries and I’ve seen it first hand. Yes there’s always the war, Money, oil, Etc.. issues but we have permission by the government and are allowed to have bases and operations there.
https://parstoday.com/en/news/west_asia-i130744-iraq_to_sue_us_over_sovereignty_violation_use_of_depleted_uranium_weapons_official
“Sorry for your loss” is considered a diplomatic response to a rocket attack? Id say.
Who else expected something way worse lol
“Contractors”? That’s a vague term. Who were these targeted?
This moderator sounds like Richard Quest.