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    Default Turkish forces shell US special forces area "by mistake".

    " contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.
    Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and senior Pentagon official that Special Forces operating in the Mashtenour hill in the majority-Kurdish city of Kobani fell under artillery fire from Turkish forces conducting their so-called "Operation Spring Peace" against Kurdish forces backed by the U.S. but considered terrorist organizations by Turkey.
    The senior Pentagon official said that Turkish forces should be aware of U.S. positions "down to the grid." While the official could not specify the exact number of personnel present, but indicated they were "small numbers below company level," so somewhere between 15 and 100 troops."
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    It was no mistake.

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    contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria.
    Turks are using massive artillery batteries. I counted 10 guns in one of them.
    So when you have that massive amount of shelling -something can go wrong,,

    Which is why WE NEEDED TO GET OUT. I didn't want US troops to be collateral damage

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    Turks are using massive artillery batteries. I counted 10 guns in one of them.
    So when you have that massive amount of shelling -something can go wrong,,

    Which is why WE NEEDED TO GET OUT. I didn't want US troops to be collateral damage
    This problem only began after Trump allow the Turks to do whatever they wanted to. Why the fuck aren’t you demanding troops out of SA?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    This problem only began after Trump allow the Turks to do whatever they wanted to. Why the fuck aren’t you demanding troops out of SA?
    SA? We have troops being shelled in South America? Try the ME dumb ass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eagle-Eye View Post
    SA? We have troops being shelled in South America? Try the ME dumb ass.
    Saudi Arabia, you stupid cunt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Saudi Arabia, you stupid cunt.
    It's called KSA, stupidest cunt!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eagle-Eye View Post
    SA? We have troops being shelled in South America? Try the ME dumb ass.
    SA = Saudi Arabia.

    So do you approve of Twittler withdrawing our forces from Syria? And how are they being shelled if they came home? Or are they still there, but only allowed to sit on their thumbs while they get shelled?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    SA = Saudi Arabia.

    So do you approve of Twittler withdrawing our forces from Syria? And how are they being shelled if they came home? Or are they still there, but only allowed to sit on their thumbs while they get shelled?
    I was giving the twit a hard time.

    I said all along it is a mistake pulling back and letting the Turks in. As Patton once said "I don't like paying for the same ground twice."But as to our troops being there we could play what if till the cows come home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    SA = Saudi Arabia.

    So do you approve of Twittler withdrawing our forces from Syria? And how are they being shelled if they came home? Or are they still there, but only allowed to sit on their thumbs while they get shelled?
    Sit on their thumbs and watch the Kurdish people they fought side by side with for 4 years being killed is more like it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    the Saudis you idiot
    Oh so you were referring to the Turks shelling our forces in Saudi Arabia! Just when did that happen I must have missed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    Turks are using massive artillery batteries. I counted 10 guns in one of them.
    So when you have that massive amount of shelling -something can go wrong,,

    Which is why WE NEEDED TO GET OUT. I didn't want US troops to be collateral damage
    Wouldn't have been any damage if Trump hasn't abondoned the Kurds giving Turkey the green light

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Wouldn't have been any damage if Trump hasn't abondoned the Kurds giving Turkey the green light
    facile. first of you don't know that -Erdogan is bull headed on getting the Kurds.

    I'm sure he told Trump he's going in and Trump moved them from the area.

    Trump's mistake was not leaving when he had the chance months ago -he listened to Lindsey and the generals and the warpigs instead

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    facile. first of you don't know that -Erdogan is bull headed on getting the Kurds.

    I'm sure he told Trump he's going in and Trump moved them from the area.

    Trump's mistake was not leaving when he had the chance months ago -he listened to Lindsey and the generals and the warpigs instead
    Neither do you know now that, and Turkey has for decades has been wanting to get the Kurds, you trying to tell us if Trump said absolutely not and maintained US forces in the area Turkey was going to go ahead anyway? Not likely

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