U.S. Troops In Syria: Pentagon Says 75,000 Needed

Political Realities ^ | 09/06/13 | Charles M. Phipps

[LD Jackson]

It is now coming out that the U.S. Central Command has a plan to secure the VX and sarin in Syria and that plan will require 75,000 American troops in Syria. The plan was devised more than eighteen months ago, long before Bashar al-Assad allegedly used chemical weapons against the rebels. A Department of Defense official told the U.K.’s MailOnline that, “The report exists, and it was prepared at the request of the National Security Advisor’s staff.” You can read the MailOnline’s complete article here.

At the same time this plan is seeing the light of day, Secretary of State John Kerry has been appearing before Congressional committees repeatedly asserting that there will be “no boots on the ground.” This is less than a day after Kerry said that securing the chemical weapons could require more than just air strikes.

Which is it? No boots on the ground or 75,000 troops on the ground? It appears to me the Obama administration is trying to reassure Congress and the American people that the military action Obama wants to take will not put American military personnel in jeopardy. While at the same time, plans have been devised that would do exactly that. If the goal here is to secure the chemical weapons, someone needs to ask Kerry and company how that will happen with just limited air strikes. It seems clear that troops on the ground will be needed to achieve the alleged objective of securing the chemical weapons.

According to an article in the Epoch Times, a declassified French intelligence report released Sept. 3, Syria has over 1,000 tons of chemical agents, making it one of the world’s largest weapons stockpiles. The chemicals include sulfur mustard, sarin, and VX, the last of which is considered the most toxic among known warfare agents.

Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee produced a draft of a resolution authorizing Obama to use force in Syria, but prohibiting the use of ground troops “for the purpose of combat operations.” Section 2 of the resolution gives him the authority to use the military “as he determines necessary and appropriate” for limited purposes which include “to protect our allies and partners against the use of” weapons of mass destruction.

Does anyone really believe that U.S. troops can be sent to Syria, secure 1,000 tons of chemical agents and then leave without experiencing combat operations? And once they do, that would be free license to send in all kinds of combat support and give Obama the ground war with American troops that I believe is his goal.

Every poll I have seen has well over 90% of Americans opposing U.S. military action in Syria and most of Congress also opposes it. In spite of this and the fact that we have no national security interest in Syria, Obama seems determined to get us into a war we don’t want and can’t afford.

[Diogenesis]

[DJ Frisat]

Sounds a lot like Obamacare Fairy Tales: ‘If you like your plan, you can keep your Plan’, ‘My plan won’t add one dime to the deficit’, ‘the average cunsumer will see the cost of their healthcare plan go down by $2500’, et al.

How can anybody listen believe a word that comes out of these liars’ mouths?

[Fresh Wind]

They’re only talking about “no boots on the ground”. If the Fairy King orders the troops to wear high heels, then there wouldn’t be a problem.

[sr4402]

Anti-War Activists Cindy Shehan and John Kerry now need 75,000 soldiers for their new war.

LOLARMAOOTF (Laughing Out Loud and Rolling my A$$ off on the Floor)

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Sounds like we need to bring back the draft! Time to get those computer age drop outs and Gangsta kids in uniform for cannon fodder! I have always said I would rather my son die on the battlefield than in a back allie from drugs. Lets win one for The One! When we are done in Syria we can march on Iran and Sudan and Russia (Hey, they don’t like Gay people! That’s got to be a war crime). Just wait til we face a whole bunch of nations who will not bow down to King Emperor Obama I Then we can see Cyber War tuen off the net, Shut off the elecricity, and ration all the food.

[DaveA37]

If indeed “Boots will be on the ground”, the first of the 75,000 troops must be the entire dumbocratic party led by odumbo himself. Oh, I almost forgot he leads from behind but NOT THIS TIME.

(Note to odumbo: You want this damn war now fight it yourself. Not ONE SINGLE U.S. Military personnel should be involved.)

[Sherman Logan]

What a moronic article!

Of course there's a plan to invade Syria. That's what military staffs do, maintain plans to invade anywhere that might need to be invaded. It's not their job to decide which countries will not need invasion.

We probably have plans in the can to invade Canada and Mexico. That doesn't mean we intend to do so.

What does the writer think? That the president calls up the Pentagon on Sunday, and they start scrambling around figuring out how to implement his orders?

[jsanders2001]

> Every time Vacation Guy makes a speech he loses more support
Even the retards that voted for him are tired of being lied to

Agreed. I’m seeing indications everywhere that military personnel do not want to go to war to ensure that politicians get wire transfers into their secret bank accounts from Qatar for ousting Assad who stands in their from laying natural gas pipelines that will turn them into trillionaires.

[popdonnelly]

We’ve stopped being the World’s policemen, and have become the World’s janitors. Why must this country do everything? Aren’t there other countries in the World who have an interest in what happens to Assad’s sarin gas?

[jsanders2001]

> Sounds like we need to bring back the draft! Time to get those computer age drop outs and Gangsta kids in uniform for cannon fodder!

You know that might backfire and actually turn them into real men; God fearing conservatives with some morals and ethics. There’s some real truth to that saying about they’re being no athiests in the war trenches when they’re faced with the fear of death on a daily basis.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

"asserting that there will be 'no boots on the ground'.....”

Well maybe Kerry is rationalizing that we will be sending the troops in Ballet Slippers instead. You know, treading soft with no real power, just all for show to make the One look good.

[Pan_Yan]

Sounds like we need to bring back the draft! Time to get those computer age drop outs and Gangsta kids in uniform for cannon fodder!

But it doesn't work that way. See the dropouts and gangstas would show up, fail a drug test and get sent home. The draft would only cost them an hour every few months. My kids would have to go fight.

[Verginius Rufus]

Another President who was a skinny lawyer from Illinois called for 75,000 troops for three months to put down a “rebellion.” If I remember my US history correctly, it took more than three months.