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Biden Ripped After Admin Leaks What Its Plans Are For Military Response
2024-01-31
[WIRE] President Joe Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he has made his decision on how he plans to retaliate against Iranian-backed terrorists in the Middle East who murdered three U.S. soldiers this week, wounding dozens more, in a suicide drone attack.
He decided, but then he forgot
Biden said that he holds Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, responsible for the deaths of the Americans "in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it."

Officials told CBS News that the suicide drone attack was successful because the drone flew behind a U.S. drone that was returning to the base after a mission. Because the U.S. drone was returning, the base temporarily took parts of its air defense system offline so the drone would not be shot down. The enemy drone exploited this gap and struck the barracks while the soldiers slept.

"Officials say plans call for the U.S. to launch a real bombing campaign, not just another round of one and done retaliatory strikes of the kind it has conducted so far," CBS News reported. "Once it begins, the bombing is likely to continue for a number of days."
Posted by:Besoeker

#24  Don't forget the thousands of Iranian terrorists who were allowed into the U.S. via Biden's border policy. AND you can bet the chattering elite at Harvard, Yale, etc... will plan protests and disruptions.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas   2024-01-31 20:00  

#23  IFF: Usually, I found, when you wake up and she's standing over you with a butcher knife in the middle of the night saying: "Who's Pat??"
Posted by: Frank G   2024-01-31 19:24  

#22  IFF = Identification Friend or Foe.
Posted by: Fred   2024-01-31 18:38  

#21  The headline changes significance but doesn't become untrue if the Headline's Subject switches from Joe to Hunter.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-01-31 14:55  

#20  Whatever happens will be a failure.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-31 14:43  

#19  It's not a leak. It's a trial balloon. Whatever happens will be a carefully calculated, focus group approved part of his campaign.
Posted by: Angstrom   2024-01-31 13:44  

#18  Not about Navy Blockade of Gulf of Mexico, so there's that.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-01-31 13:01  

#17  IFF - Identify Friend or Foe
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-31 12:37  

#16  IFF = if and only if.

Apparently it is also a military term. I infer also used in computer programming. I learnt it in math class — probably high school geometry for doing logic proofs.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-01-31 12:17  

#15  FBI? THe same FBI that set up the fake "Patriot Front" march and that creates its own terrorists it then proceeds to bust? ThatFBI? If they say the sky is blue you go outside and check.
Posted by: Woozle Glamp3497   2024-01-31 12:06  

#14  Just blow up their oil exporting terminals and sink their navy, sit back and eat popcorn.
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-01-31 11:41  

#13  #1: IFF = if and only if.
a term i discovered about 62 years ago at age 25.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-01-31 10:58  

#12  It won't be a real war.

Chinese hackers preparing to ‘wreak havoc’ on American citizens, communities, FBI director warns
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-31 10:46  

#11  In a real war, the Iran Navy would be taken out in about 6 hours. Their air force would last about 12 hours.

Hopefully at that point the army would overthrow the republican guard and the mullahs.
Posted by: lord garth   2024-01-31 10:36  

#10  Plus Iran has plane loads of Billions in EU-CASH to spend on its war.



Wheras we just magic new money into existence topay for all of our foreign wars, causing runaway inflation that is hurting Americans, especially those least able to afford it.


Someone's worried about losing a new war because we don't have enough troops?


How about losing a new war because the same people who lost against dudes with AKs in Afghanistan are in charge?


Hell, the Iranians will just have to charge forward and misgender our troops with bullhorns and they will break down crying and screaming about micro-aggressions.


Tell me again how this has ANY hope of winning a new war?
Posted by: Woozle Glamp3497   2024-01-31 10:15  

#9  esponsible for the deaths of the Americans "in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it."



We are supplying the weapons to the people who are committing the ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

What does that make us?
Posted by: Woozle Glamp3497   2024-01-31 10:10  

#8  Seems it would be easy to plan friendly approaches so any piggybackers would follow right over a little observation post staffed with a few guys with MANPADs.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-31 09:54  

#7  All great suggestions.

Here's another...
The dumbshit OPS were notified there was a Pred returning for rearm/refueling but were too busy playing grabass to monitor the incoming track.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-31 09:10  

#6  IFF?

Depends upon how close the airframes are and the resolution the radar being used can detect and at what range and if it had a query capability. In theory, 'IF' a AWACs was covering the area, the launch of the second drone could have been detected. Now if the systems where syched through something like TADIL J, the second drone would have been tagged as hostile by the AWAC and the data feed the defensive systems command and control systems (if any) at the base.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-01-31 07:33  

#5  Great headline.

“The blow must be so devastating that Tehran orders its proxies to stand down.”

I must have missed The Plan.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-31 07:25  

#4  

While we are mourning our loses of our soldiers.
Boiled down, they sent a drone as payback, after we sent a drone.

Now Biden has his 2024 election year reason to escalate the situation.

Say ... Iran decides to retaliate going total war and using ground troops.

Some issues the US will immediately face.


Iran's army is estimated at 585K (when including terrorist cells and groups)

ISLAMIC Unity kicks in, as a another Fatwa will be issued declaring a Holy War. That Islamic troop number will quickly raise to 1+ million and tons of locally contributed supplies will follow.

Any Holy War protesters there, will either be shot protesting or jailed awaiting execution.

Plus Iran has plane loads of Billions in EU-CASH to spend on its war.

VS.

U.S. military has around 54K in the middle east and about 10% of that are non-combat support personnel. Which ties up more US Troops and resources. Resources like fuel, medical, food, ammo, weapons and etc. that have to come from 1,000's of miles away to maybe just get there.

Depending on the US Metro. US War protesters/Rioters/Looters will be hailed by the MSM and LSD's as patriots. A handful, at most, might die accidentally 1 in a 500 maybe jailed overnight.

Then there is the CCP, Taiwan, Panama Canal area issues at play and the likely 1000+ or so, terrorists that already here due to open borders.
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-01-31 07:13  

#3  Biden Ripped After Admin Leaks What Its Plans Are For Military Response

His handlers need to put a second Depends over his mouth.
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677   2024-01-31 06:51  

#2  ...It also means that we were doing things in a steady, predictable pattern that had been observed and analyzed.

This sort of thing happened in both Europe and the Pacific during WWII - the Germans and Japanese figured out that even with IFF they could sneak individual aircraft through and land a punch.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2024-01-31 06:31  

#1  Officials told CBS News that the suicide drone attack was successful because the drone flew behind a U.S. drone that was returning to the base after a mission

IFF?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-31 05:54  

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