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Re: In the meantime, right wingers are trying to credit Trump for ISIS defeat.....

By: zzstar in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 27 Dec 17 8:21 PM | 48 view(s)
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Here’s HISTORY:

“The 2017 Battle of Raqqa was the fifth and final phase of the Raqqa campaign (2016–2017) launched by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the Islamic State (ISIL) with an aim to seize the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIL since 2014. The battle began on 6 June 2017, and was supported by airstrikes and ground troops from the US-led coalition.[19] The operation was named the "Great Battle" by the SDF.[48] The battle concluded on 17 October 2017, with the SDF fully capturing the city of Raqqa. It ran concurrently with the Battle of Mosul, which started seven months earlier, as part of an effort by the CJTF–OIR and its allies to strip ISIL of its regional centers of power and to dismantle it as an organization controlling territory.”

The “fifth and final phase”. There were four phases before in order to get to the fifth. All under Obama! And the fifth was conducted under the original plan too.

And here’s Trump’s “contribution”:

“As many as 500 US special forces are operating on the ground in northern Syria in support of the Raqqa campaign. The US and other coalition members are supplying heavy weapons, intelligence collection, communications support and other assistance to the SDF as part of their intervention in the conflict.[51] The battle began in the wake of a tumultuous period for the coalition, as internal pressures had been elevated by the Qatar diplomatic crisis, which had seen diplomatic relations between Qatar and other coalition members severed, and was publicly supported by President Donald Trump.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raqqa_(2017)

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In the meantime, right wingers are trying to credit Trump for ISIS defeat.....
By: zzstar in FFFT3
Wed, 27 Dec 17 8:11 PM 		Msg. 39700 of 65535

When it is well known that the only city left for The SYRIANS to finish off was Ruqqa. Mosul, Falujah, the kurdish oil fields, and all the territory in Iraq had already been recaptured and freed, as well as towns in Syria. Even Ruqqa had been uNDER siege when Trump took office. He didn’t start it, he watched as Iraqis and Syrians retook it. His contribution to it was killing all those civilians in his ill attempt in emulating Obama’s successful bombings of targets, and the bombing of a runway in Syria that was a nothing burger. Next day, it was back in service.

So, NO, Trump did not kill ISIS on the ground, Obama did by helping the locals do it, methodically, effectively, with little loss of American lives.

You can’t rewrite history, but you can flap your gums incoherently while everyone that knows a thing gives you a blank stare.

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