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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:04 AM Sep 2017

Trump: "We've made more progress in the last 9 months against ISIS than Obama made in 8 years"

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We have made more progress in the last nine months against ISIS than the Obama Administration has made in 8 years.Must be proactive & nasty!

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Trump: "We've made more progress in the last 9 months against ISIS than Obama made in 8 years" (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2017 OP
Just that little matter on Bin Laden.. HipChick Sep 2017 #1
"Nasty." More civilians are dying in Trump's bombings of ISIS than in Obama's. DetlefK Sep 2017 #2
And I personally led the effort, yeah..., yeah,... That's the ticket! Chasstev365 Sep 2017 #3
A tale of two Trumps Miles Archer Sep 2017 #5
And Russia bombing ISIS' oil-trade with Turkey also helped. DetlefK Sep 2017 #4
Trump is so full of shit. C_U_L8R Sep 2017 #6

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
2. "Nasty." More civilians are dying in Trump's bombings of ISIS than in Obama's.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:09 AM
Sep 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-syria-death-toll-campaign-military-operations-barack-obama-administration-a7844526.html

As of 13 July, more than 2,200 civilians had been killed by the US-led international coalition against Isis since Donald Trump entered the White house in January - compared with the estimated 2,300 civilians who died during similar strikes between 2014 and 2016.

Roughly 80 civilians per month died in strikes under Mr Obama but this has now risen to approximately 360 per month under Mr Trump, according to research by the military tracking organisation Airwars.
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