Speaking today before the Senate Armed Services Committee, CENTCOM commander Gen. Lloyd Austin talked up the idea of sending additional US ground troops to both Iraq and Syria for the war against ISIS, saying that there was a clear need for “additional capability” to try to take ISIS’ major cities of Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria.
Gen. Austin went on to say that his people have done analysis on how many more troops were needed and had made recommendations to the White House, but declined to tell the committee exactly how many more troops this would entail.
Exactly how many US troops are already in Iraq and Syria isn’t wholly clear either. Last month, the Pentagon claimed 3,700 troops in Iraq, only to admit shortly thereafter that in reality there were “well over” 4,000 troops there at any given time. In Syria, the number is smaller, but has varied in different estimates.
The US has tended to add troops in Iraq in small increments, a few hundred at a time, both to avoid any domestic debate about the ground war and to avoid upsetting the Iraqi government, which nominally capped the US presence at 3,870 troops, but which has ignored the US being far above that number for months.
In Syria, the lack of any agreement with the Assad government makes throwing more troops into the country easier in practice, albeit dicey from an international legal perspective. US troops in Syria are believed to be centered around the Kurdish YPG’s territory in the northeast.
Is there a name for a party that demands and bullies its way into an operation’s leadership position, for the sole purpose of running the operation as bad as possible in order to create more chaos, and unilaterally profit at the same time?
That’s what the Obama admin and his military quislings are !!!
Antiwar people have seen the best they will ever see with Obama. With Putin’s help he’s stopped a US led war in Syria and his admin has denied both political parties their goal of a war with Iran. And he’s hated for it, just ask a politician! So just think of what he could have done had he gotten just a little support from the people.
Oh well, it won’t be long until Bernie Sanders is demoliahed by the MSM of both sides and Hillary takes over. That will get the two missing wars back on track and see completion of the PNAC agenda.
Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
http://www.fair.org/static/bernie-static.html
(1) Only if a politician was a paid actor working for big business, only then could they not argue with Hillary Clinton.
(5) The reasons why Bernie won all of his Democrat debates, surely they are too numerous to mention.
(3) When it comes to the global economy, the two big lies by the mainstream media are that only the rich understand the global economy and therefore, the rich should establish a one-world global economy.
(4) Mental health patients to mainstream media, stop enriching yourself upon our misery.
(5) Clinton is running to be president of the Bush-Obama Administration.
(6) Only one in ten black voters go to the polls, so Bernie is exposing the mainstream media lie that winning the black vote is key to winning the White House.
(7) The most anti-partisan and anti-establishment politician, that is Bernie Sanders.
(8) Bernie is the most gentle and courteous opponent Hillary ever encountered.
(9) Mainstream media does not know how to talk about black people, unless they can call them “accused… assailant… gunmen…”
(10) Bernie speaks the truth, so mainstream media calls it a “catchphrase.”
(11) Bernie uses light to force the new darkness of Ted Cruz to give way, so what can they possibly have in common?
(12) Over 95% of American whites have never been in a ghetto except to jack-rabbit through it on the freeway. So, do they have any concept of what food insecurity or poverty wages is all about?
(13) Bernie does not support the mainstream fiction that the big banks donated $2 billion toward the Obama election so that paid actor Obama could make the big banks honest.
(14) Empire USA incarcerates over 25% of all the prisoners on earth, most for nonviolent crimes like drug abuse. So, could he not release over half of them by simply signing an executive order?
(15) The voting majority, the 51% most wealthy, as they own all the wealth and need all the deadly force they can muster, they own 90% of guns and election suicide would it be for Bernie to try and take away their guns.
That’s what William Westmoreland said.
They want more troops there not for ISIS but for occupation purposes. This criminal gang in DC are monsters and ruin every country they say they are protecting.