No Mess, No Fuss - #ISIS Suicide Bombers Try to Overtake a U.S. Marine Base

By Elizabeth Nelson

I came across this Marine sniper video.  You can't see the ISIS suicide bomber or his 7 idiot bomb-vested friends, off camera, all you see is the Iraqi-sniper beading down on the imminent threat in the distance.  The one question is, what happens when Achmed, the ISIS suicide bomber, and his suicidal friends, decided they'll suit up and try to overtake a U.S. Marine base?  That's right, they had another think coming....and fast.

Eight suicide bombers managed Friday to get onto a sprawling Iraqi military base where hundreds of U.S. Marines are training their Iraqi counterparts, but were killed by an ISF counter attack almost immediately.

Sean Ryan, chief of foreign affairs for the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq, confirmed to CBS News that the attackers made it onto the secluded Ain al-Asad airbase west of Baghdad, but said the attackers made it "nowhere near" the American forces on the base before they were killed.

A U.S. defense official, speaking to CBS News on background, said the militants were believed to have been members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), who hold positions just a few miles northeast of the base, in the al-Baghdadi area.

Granted, it was an Iraqi-trained sniper that took out the bombers, but since there were only 8 bombers, not 800, we'd certainly all hope that they wouldn't feel overwhelmed and feel as if they could handle Achmed and his "Allah is Great" explosive friends.  However, this is a great shot, the official said the bombers were a mile and half away, but they had made it onto the base. 

No mess to clean up - pop goes the weasels.

The official said coalition forces were at least a mile and a half away from the attack, and at no point were they under direct threat from the militants. Ain al-Asad is one of the largest bases the U.S. military has used in Iraq -- roughly the size of the city of Boulder, Colorado, according to a Pentagon spokesman speaking to the Defensenews.com website last year.

As of the end of last year, there were more than 300 U.S. military personnel at Ain al-Asad, their primary role being to train tribal fighters to take on ISIS. According to the BBC, who sent a correspondent to visit the base late in 2014, the Americans are situated in a "private corner" of the camp. Read more CBSNews

Now, remember, Obama promised America that our "Humanitarian boots" Marines are only going to be sent to Iraq and would only be used in the capacity to train the Iraqi's" and not to fight.  

However, because ISIS, "is quite interested in this base," these "humanitarian boots," may indeed be drawn in to "fight for their lives" along side their armed comrades, or die.  This was what most of us already saw coming.

Another thing that doesn't sit well with me, for the last six months Obama has been bombing ISIS with Humanitarian Boots, to no avail and without the need for Congress' blessing. So why, only NOW, is he's asking for revised "military authorization?" Can anyone say, "Mission Creep?" 

Americans didn't feel that WWII was America's "war to fight," until Pearl Harbor, and many believe Roosevelt allowed it to happen to draw us into the war, so that he could serve beyond his two-terms.  He was actually inaugurated into his fourth term, and died in his fourth term.  History repeats itself, when we don't learn from it.