In a direct contradiction to yesterday’s Senate testimony by Gen. Martin Dempsey, President Obama today ruled out having any “US ground combat troops” in Iraq, insisting the military will not fight “another ground war in Iraq.”
Obama’s comments came after a briefing with military commanders at Centcom, and is in keeping with his long-standing narrative that, despite the growing number of ground troops being sent, they won’t actually get into combat. Iraq has also made clear that such troops are not welcome.
With the administration dramatically expanding its military goals in Iraq and Syria, the pledges for no ground troops are increasingly not credible, with Congressional leaders seeing a ground war as an inevitability, and Gen. Dempsey conceding that it was likely the US “advisers” would engage in ground combat embedded with Iraqi forces when they start trying to retake major ISIS-held cities.
The White House tried to downplay Dempsey’s comments as a mere hypothetical, and insisted President Obama is determined to not even review or consider any options that involve ground troops in combat.
At present there are approximately 1,600 US ground troops in Iraq nominally all labeled “advisers.” The administration has sent additional troops approximately once a week throughout the past month.
Look: everything that USG, both in terms of political and economical support, dose is about ISIS to succeed. They steal the Syrian people's oil and sale it at high discounted price right in front of Turkish Erdogan regime nose and NATO is silence, USG and English as a well as NATO by not acting against oil companies black market they give the political support to this barbarians, Rest is horse sheeeeet talk.
Obama's sudden reversal may be due to the fact that Abadi – Maliki's replacement says "there is no need for foreign troops and we don't want them." http://time.com/3393318/isil-isis-iraq-barack-oba…
So far, Obama plan is doing EVERYTHING to insure ISIS is PROTECTED. EVERY enemy of ISIS is being TARGETED, or is kept out of having any role to play.
So, Obama has a PROBLEM with Siia militia in Iraq. How clever of him. Shiia militia that was formed as a self-defence, and is made of ordinary people whom Iraqi soldiers were unable to protect — is a PROBLEM for Obama. So, ONE enemy of ISIS — is our enemy.
Then, Obama has a problem with Hezbolah, even though now for years they have prevented ISIS to take root in Lebanon's Sunni community, and prevented from Lebanon falling into civil war Syria style. Thus, ONE MORE enemy of ISIS — is our enemy.
Obama has a problem with Assad. Even though 90% population of Syria supports him and the army, as the only defence against ISIS and a garden variety of ISIS wannabes. And Assad and his army has thus far been the ONLY ONE IN THE REGION that effectively kept ISIS under control, and in retreat on Syrian territory. Because of this, he is the TOP ENEMY OF US — how dares he for so long manage to kick ISIS behind? Bagdhad government's Maliki was persona non grata — as he wanted more then a year ago to start a war on incursions of ISIS into Iraq — and daily bombings of Baghdad. US was not pleased — he was just not MULTICULTURAL ENOUGH, he needed to cuddle ISIS, as they were only unhappy with their lack of political clout in Iraq. Now, that Maliki is GONE, his chief sin being that he REFUSED to sign SOFA agreement — a more leasurely way will be found to spend "years' in Iraq "fighting" ISIS. And if US or UK public gets tired of it, and wants an end of open ended bleeding of our Treasury — you can count on ISIS being given prime time on all western media beheading yet another person, so that Western public's spine will be propped up.
Then, there are Kurds. In Iraq — they have become little too independent of our control — so with a little ISIS spanking — they came running for US help. Sure, sure — now there are special forces, and other boots on the ground in Iraqi Kurdistan. If the clever-by-half US politicians think that Kurds will just like this give them control — they do not know Middle East. Kurds will find a way to deal with ISIS, bypassing those that are under US control — and voila — problems galore. Then there are Kurds in Syria. Since they fought ISIS all these years, and suffered many deaths and kidnappings — they, OF COURSE, cannot be on US side! No, no — since they fought AGAINST ISIS, and thus helped cause of defending Syria from ISIS — they are the ENEMY.
Let us see — is there ANYBODY that has helped fight ISIS, that is not on our s-list? I can think of nobody. Iran, Russia — all enemies of ISIS, and thus — enemies. However, all ALLIES in the Middle East, have helped ARM, TRAIN AND FINANCE ISIS — Saudi Arabia, Gulf States, Jordan. AND THESE ARE THE COUNTRIES THAT WILL FIGHT ISIS?
This is a joke.
They could make it 1,602 by sending mccain and graham.