As they continue to push for ever-more ground troops in Iraq, the Pentagon today confirmed that they are giving consideration to opening up more bases in the country, or potentially reopening bases from the previous occupation, with an eye toward getting more deeply involved in the war.
Rear Admiral Andrew Lewis talked up a single significant new base, to be operated similarly to the existing Firebase Bell, near Mosul, and also would consider other, smaller outposts to provide more artillery support in the fighting around Mosul.
Lewis downplayed the move to ground troops in Iraq, a war in which President Obama repeatedly ruled out the introduction of “boots on the ground,” insisting that the ground troops are no different than war planes conceptually, and that they’re just conducting surface-to-surface strikes instead of air-to-surface strikes.
It’s hard to tell, indeed, if such bases aren’t already happening, as Firebase Bell was operating for quite some time before the Pentagon was forced to admit to its existence when ISIS attacked the site and killed a Marine. They insisted they were planning an official announcement later that week.
The US has a treaty with Iraq capping the number of ground troops in the country at 3,870, though the Pentagon has conceded that they usually have in excess of 5,000 troops in Iraq at any given time.
Hands off Syria,
Pentagon has conceded it usually has in excess of 5,000 troops in Iraq…
Any so-called (treaty) concocted by the USG regime isn’t worth the paper
it’s written on.
Just ask what’s left of the USG’s indigenous peoples.
Why do we even care about what happens in the Mid East? Two answers – terrorism against the West and cover for Israeli subjection of Palestine. The terrorism, as can be perceived by the most ignorant, is easily faked by false flags. Getting Americans to go along with Israeli abuse of the Palestinians, is harder – it takes unrelenting propaganda, a willing media, and government corruption and complicity. It takes a tremendous and continuous effort to keep Americans from rejecting all of this fakery, lying, and corruption. What a liberating day, it will be when this country decides to junk all of this criminality.
I think it’s a safe but sad bet that neither you nor I will live to see that happen.
Our foreign policy is completely dictated by Israel and her traitorous fifth column in the United States. The United States, because of this deadly perversion, has not pursued its own, real interests in almost seventy years. Congress, the executive, the courts, the banks, the media……
I feel so much safer since 9/11… I hope our military never collapses and leaves us vulnerable to all the people we’ve pissed on for the past 100 years
We’re already vulnerable.
Well, you can’t spend $750 million on an embassy and not have bases to protect it.