The White House has announced that President Obama has authorized a plan to more than double the number of US ground troops in Iraq, signing off on another 1,500 troops.
Officials declined to offer details about the timings of the deployments, or what the massive number of new “advisers” will actually be doing on the ground in Baghdad and Irbil.
Last week, however, Gen. Martin Dempsey began pushing the idea of moving the “advisers” out of Baghdad and Irbil and onto the front line with Iraqi ground troops in combat against ISIS.
The White House also revealed they are pushing the lame duck Congress to agree to another $5.6 billion for funding the war. Most of the cost of the war so far has been buried in other Pentagon funding for “contingencies,” though repeated escalations are making it harder to do this.
That’s likely to lead to a clash between the administration and the incoming, super-hawkish Congress, which is planning to push for an outright ground war in Iraq and Syria, and will no doubt use its power of the purse as leverage to try to force such escalations.
"No boots on the ground" his ability to think and reason clearly is a sign of dementia……maybe he is just a pathological liar.
It's a people's money so they don't care, then it's the solders life so they don't care, then is another country and nation they are destroying so they don't care, but one thing they care about is their falsified democracy in action. ISIS is created for two reason, 1- to create a buffer zone between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. 2- ISIS created to implement the Saudis, UAE wicked fascistic and religious regime protecting the European and USG geopolitical interests. For Hillary Clinton or Jef Bushism politics toward nations in middle east to recognize ISIS as the 1900 caliphate regime or to invade the nations as planed from 1990s.
Here they go again. Was anyone really surprised about this?
so it went from humanitarian mission to boots on the ground. Obama, the biggest con job President ever.
More money in the pockets of war profiteers.
Double or nothing is the foreign policy conducted by USG for years now, they are gambling with people's life as McCain plays poker while in senate.
It is reported that only about 1000 of these soldiers will train the "new and improved" army of Iraq. Given its puny size that will mean that every one of these trainers will probably train less than 20 "trainees". Wow!
Regarding the objective of training…it took nearly 10 years of training to find out the effectiveness of that training…when the Iraqi Army dropped weapons and shirts and headed for the hills. 10 years. What are 1000 trainers going to do in the time left before ISIS overruns Baghdad?
The American people need to let the idiots in DC know that they're not fooled by "advisors" and that they know where this subterfuge is heading.
Right! Oppose Obama, send 10,000 now! Cause war's wot's gud.
Thank you. So obvious but no one from the msm ever mentions our abject failure at training ANYONE.
Then 3/4'ers of US congress support continuing the fight and that's roughly equivalent to the wishes of those who elected them. So soon it won't be Obama pushing for money for war anymore and it will be o.k. again. Most likely, more than o.k. as we'll see when the rabid warmongering right escalate it. Ha!
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