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A sneak peek at what's left of Mosul after battle
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:54 am
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:54 am
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I can't post pictures from my phone of someone will please post some of the pics.
Absolutely devastated is the description I come up with.
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The nearly eight-month battle between the Iraqi Security Forces and the Islamic State for Mosul has left much of the city a pile of rubble.
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A large percentage of the damage is localized to the western half, where the fiercest fighting took place. U.S. military commanders frequently described the battle for the western half as some of the most fierce urban fighting since World War II.
I can't post pictures from my phone of someone will please post some of the pics.
Absolutely devastated is the description I come up with.
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Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:56 am to bamarep
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:57 am to bamarep
Maybe we should stop contributing to the destabilization of the Middle East?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:57 am to bamarep
You don't get much of a feel for it with the 3rd picture but the first two? Damn.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:57 am to Bard
Looks like that was some freaking fight.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:57 am to Bard
Soooo...pretty much how I pictured Mosul BEFORE the battle!
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:59 am to bamarep
So the linked article didn't have any pictures, but it did say that it would take billions of dollars in international aid to rebuild the city.
Why on earth earth would we even bother rebuilding it? So the next caliphate has something to destroy?
Why on earth earth would we even bother rebuilding it? So the next caliphate has something to destroy?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:59 am to Bard
That's really sad. What a historical city ruined.
Listened to a podcast about it the other day and it has been some of the most fierce fighting in decades and was compared to the fight for Stalingrad. The Iraqi and Kurdish forces were fighting building to building where the isis fighters have had years to prepare booby traps and fortifications with tunnels and snipers. I think it was something like 5 car bombs a day on average. When they finally would reach residents they would have to have them surrender butt naked because of the suicide bombers. fricking savage.
How had Erbil made it out of this thing so unscathed?
Listened to a podcast about it the other day and it has been some of the most fierce fighting in decades and was compared to the fight for Stalingrad. The Iraqi and Kurdish forces were fighting building to building where the isis fighters have had years to prepare booby traps and fortifications with tunnels and snipers. I think it was something like 5 car bombs a day on average. When they finally would reach residents they would have to have them surrender butt naked because of the suicide bombers. fricking savage.
How had Erbil made it out of this thing so unscathed?
This post was edited on 7/10/17 at 10:03 am
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:59 am to FalseProphet
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Why on earth earth would we even bother rebuilding it?
Srs?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:00 am to FalseProphet
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it would take billions of dollars in US tax dollars to rebuild the city.
FIFY
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:00 am to Bard
YAY! We won!!!
Uh... there's nothing left here..
Uh... there's nothing left here..
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:00 am to Mo Jeaux
Yes. Why spend billions of dollars building something back up so the next group of insurgents can knock it down?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:02 am to bamarep
It's called Unrestricted Warfare. shite happens.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:02 am to Bard
If those are images of the religion of peace then I'd hate to see the results from a religion of hatred.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:03 am to FalseProphet
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Yes. Why spend billions of dollars building something back up so the next group of insurgents can knock it down?
Maybe there won't be a "next group"?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:04 am to Homesick Tiger
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If those are images of the religion of peace then I'd hate to see the results from a religion of hatred.
Yeah, good ole "shining city on a hill", "Christian" U.S.A. contributed absolutely nothing to that devastation, huh?Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:06 am to Mo Jeaux
Have you even Middle Eastern historied bro?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:08 am to FalseProphet
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Have you even Middle Eastern historied bro?
As a matter of fact, I have a degree in it, bro. How bout you?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:08 am to bamarep
Sadly, I think this is what it takes to take the fight out of somebody. It needs to end with the wholesale slaughter of Isis fighters.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 10:12 am to Mo Jeaux
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Yeah, good ole "shining city on a hill", "Christian" U.S.A. contributed absolutely nothing to that devastation, huh?
So the USA is only a "Christian nation" when it can be twisted into something negative?
Your Leftist, Western Civilization-hating worldview is noted.
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