U.S. OFFICIAL: The United States has begun airstrikes in Tikrit

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A senior U.S. official says the U.S. has begun airstrikes in Tikrit in support of a stalled Iraqi ground offensive to retake the city from Islamic State fighters.

The official says the airstrikes began after the Iraqi government requested U.S. help. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the American attacks had not yet been officially announced.

An Associated Press reporter in Tikrit reported hearing warplanes overhead late Wednesday, followed by multiple explosions.

http://www.wdrb.com/story/28614808/us-official-the-united-states-is-bombing-tikrit

[DeadLetterOffice]

1. When did "airstrikes" replace "bombings" in our national lexicon?

One more way of sanitizing reality.

[Gregorian]

2. Bomb the world into peace!

[TwilightGardener]

3. Iran's Air Force, that's us. Kind of an uncomfortable arrangement.

[KamaAina]

4. Locking. Not LBN.

This is a post from 2003.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Are the pilots wearing slippers to avoid being boots on the ground?

[gratuitous]

6. Isn't that how this all got started in the first place?

My goodness, our country's faith in the power of violence is total and complete, isn't it? Even when violence produces the heinous result of birthing a group of bloodthirsty killers who decapitate people for the fun of it, we still turn to violence to try to redeem the situation.

I wonder what's gestating from this round of indiscriminate bombing?