Just days ago, the Obama Administration was adamant about not getting more involved in Iraq’s fighting with al-Qaeda (AQI). The mounting losses on the Iraqi side have Congressional hawks pushing for US action, and the administration seems to be going along with the idea.
President Obama is now insisting Iraq “needs more help” in the fighting, and officials say he is considering virtually everything short of a new ground invasion, including US warplanes conducting air strikes against AQI fighters.
This action is likely imminent, as Vice President Joe Biden has called Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki to assure him the US is prepared to “intensify and accelerate security support.”
This is likely to include not only air strikes, but rushed shipments of weapons for the Iraqi Army, though since the Iraqi Army has been dropping its weapons and fleeing in the face of advancing militants, it seems the US shipments are just as likely to end up in al-Qaeda’s hands at the end of the day as they are to alter the battle.
AMERIKA#1–WARMONGER OF PLANET EARTH
Has any US president ever made war on – what is it – 8 countries or more at once before?
Body Count Barack kills 'em good.
Has anyone else had to stifle the urge to vomit being told that it's all still Bush's fault, as if there isn't just one big War Party in this lunatic murder state?
Send the "Congressional hawks" – solve a couple of problems at one shot.
There's some evidence – not from Western MSM of course – that US troops may already be arriving in Baghdad, presumably to protect the billion dollar US embassy. http://goingglobaleastmeetswest.blogspot.com/2014…
Obama is hoping to create some support for plans that have already been put in motion.
It looks like South Vietnam during 1974-75. Tons of aid was given to the South Vietnamese army and it was simply thrown away.