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Obama to Make Case for Sending Special Forces to Iraq (Now wants 'boots on the ground')
CBS News ^ | 9:05 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 17, 2014 | Major Garrett

Posted on 06/17/2014 6:23:07 PM PDT by kristinn

President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked congressional leaders to meet with him Wednesday as he considers his options in Iraq.

Administration officials tell us the president will make the case for sending a limited number of special forces troops to Iraq.

The president had insisted he did not want to put boots on the ground in the newly flaring conflict but now believes special forces are necessary to develop better intelligence on the Sunni insurgents should airstrikes be ordered.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; obama; specialforces
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1 posted on 06/17/2014 6:23:07 PM PDT by kristinn
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The special forces need to tell him to **** off and go do it himself. If he can kill Osama, surely the ISIS shouldn’t be any problem for him. Barry is an “action hero”.


2 posted on 06/17/2014 6:24:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: kristinn

And of course nobody, not even the MSM saw this coming.


3 posted on 06/17/2014 6:25:00 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: kristinn

He was against it before he was for it.

It’s all good.


4 posted on 06/17/2014 6:25:26 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: kristinn

He wants to kill off all our best warriors before the coup.


5 posted on 06/17/2014 6:25:42 PM PDT by Defiant (Obama is not the anti-Christ. He is Satan's John the Baptist, preparing the way.)
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To: kristinn

Hell no!!! Let all those ragheads fight their own battles ... no more sacrificing our troops for a people who hate us and only want us to save their sorry butts again.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 6:27:20 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: kristinn
And he will send just a few so they will get killed.

These bad decisions are from a man who deeply wants to destroy this fine country.

Too few people see this as a problem. Where are our Patriots?

7 posted on 06/17/2014 6:28:53 PM PDT by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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The only thing that needs to be done is to order all our people out and to blow to kingdom come any and all assets left behind.

The destruction of American assets will send a message to these crazy islamics that we do mean business and we are NOT afraid to deny them anything and everything! Forward is not the direction we should be moving in ...it is a strategic retreat at the present time that is warranted.

8 posted on 06/17/2014 6:31:34 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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Why don’t he tell the Pentagon to send some of their “openly gay” guys. It’s Miller Time for the Special Forces. They did their job.


9 posted on 06/17/2014 6:32:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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of the few, so much is asked by the so unworthy


10 posted on 06/17/2014 6:34:08 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

agree

It’s time for the first transgender spec ops unit to make a stand


11 posted on 06/17/2014 6:35:18 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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How do we know he’s not sending our guys over there as his targets?


12 posted on 06/17/2014 6:36:24 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: kristinn

I thought Lurch said Iran was going to take care of it for us.


13 posted on 06/17/2014 6:36:55 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: kristinn

But didn’t he just make the case for taking boots off the ground? He’s like a weather vane, yet the media dutifully reports this without any reference to the dozens of contradictory policies he “made the case for” before this one.


14 posted on 06/17/2014 6:38:10 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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15 posted on 06/17/2014 6:41:15 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: doc1019

Yeah, I mean, now Obama is just wasting time, money and people. Obama flailing around like a fish out of water is just going to get Americans killed without any valid purpose.


16 posted on 06/17/2014 6:42:50 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes, send our new Rainbow Corpse.


17 posted on 06/17/2014 6:46:07 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Iron Munro

Says it all.


18 posted on 06/17/2014 6:46:40 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Iron Munro

I don’t think that another American Serviceman/woman should shed their blood over there. Of course, I have no say so either way about what happens. There are some that are extremely eager to shed the blood of others over there. Of course, them and theirs are safe and comfortable in their air conditioned mansions and attending their coke parties.


19 posted on 06/17/2014 6:48:00 PM PDT by sport
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To: kristinn

Or is his goal to kill them off? So far he’s done nothing, but get our heroes killed.


20 posted on 06/17/2014 6:52:41 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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