BREAKING: Airstrikes on ISIS Militants Have Begun, Kurds and Iraqis Say

[Cali_Democrat]

Airstrikes on ISIS Militants Have Begun, Kurds and Iraqis Say

WASHINGTON — Airstrikes on towns in northern Iraq seized by Islamist militants began late Thursday in what Kurdish and Iraqi officials called the first stage of an American-led intervention to blunt the militants’ advance and provide emergency aid to tens of thousands of refugees.

The Pentagon firmly denied that American forces had begun a bombing campaign. But Pentagon officials said it was possible that allies of the United States, either the Iraqi or Turkish militaries, had conducted the bombing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/obama-weighs-military-strikes-to-aid-trapped-iraqis-officials-say.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. The title is misleading.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. edited. nt

[Fred Sanders]

4. Looks like the air strikes were food and water and medicine, the first priority.

It was convert, die or flee, last I heard. They fled.

The media left the flee part out, although it is obvious that is what the population did. They had some place to flee to at least.

[Rhinodawg]

3. War,war,war !!

we are back in Iraq.

[JaneyVee]

5. They air dropped food.

[gateley]

6. I'm glad they did.

Sounds schmaltzy, but I wish we could airdrop hugs.