Posted on 06/11/2015 10:50:45 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Obama is open to expanding the American military footprint in Iraq with a network of bases and possibly hundreds of additional troops to support Iraqi security forces in their fight against the Islamic State, White House officials said on Thursday.
As Iraqi forces struggle on the battlefield, aides said Mr. Obama would consider establishing a series of outposts where American advisers would work with Iraqi troops and local tribesmen. The bases would be run by Iraqis, and Americans would still not engage in ground combat, but they would play a more active role closer to the front lines.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
if only we had had troops there already, this wouldn’t have happened...oh wait..
The sob still wants to run out the clock.
I thought he said ISIS was the JV team?
But here it is:
BOOM! Cher tweets out EPIC comment on Obama sending troops to Iraq
Vietnam is two words?
Guess Cher is in a spelling comPat zone.
How many people have died because of obama’s premature withdrawal from iraq?
Obama invaded more countries than Bush
Active Duty ping.
Cher dropped out of high school at age 16 and didn’t pursue any further formal education
For those not willing to click on the NY slimes, here is my take on the crux of the article (their words, not mine, don’t flame):
“President Obama is open to expanding the American military footprint in Iraq... possibly hundreds of additional troops... Mr. Obama would consider establishing a series of outposts ...Americans would still not engage in ground combat...no proposal has been presented to Mr. Obama and they anticipated no decision in the next few weeks
...more bases could require additional deployments...Mr. Obama, who has long resisted being drawn into another ground war since pulling out all forces in 2011...
Supporters called it a welcome if inadequate step...still “very hypothetical” ...deploying small teams of advisers at a new base can involve much greater troop commitments...there would be just 50 advisers...The rest are to provide support, logistics and force protection.
Although the goal is to retake the city [Ramadi]...an effort may be months away...the American military once forecast recapturing Mosul this spring...the United States was still hoping...we will have to look at other partners...other Americans and Iraqi officials said they have also talked about expanding the concept...
the (Iraqi) president has already approved five hubs for American troops in Iraq...new bases could be established by moving troops around rather than sending more.
The closer the U.S. military is to the action on the ground, the better the chances of influencing...it is not clear the approach can be effective...
In February, eight suicide bombers tried to get into an air base west of Baghdad where hundreds of American Marines were training... creeping incrementalism is rarely a way of correcting a failed or inadequate strategy...”
***Break***
(to Cher, let’s all get together and send good thoughts to those who have been, or will be, in “Compat”...)
And she *still* can’t spell any better than that?
Even after all these years?
Look at the adjective she used for Congress. LOL
1st Native Americans
@Solutrean
Blocked by @Cher
#ImwithHuck #TCOT
Enemy islamist bastard just trying to buy time till his election runout with American lives.
ISIS is øbama.
adding a base in iraq?
WE HAD A BASE IN IRAQ ... UNTIL YOU ABANDONED IT
what? does isis want more equipment?
if only barak sr had prematurely withdrawn from stanley anne...
And Code Pink, ANSWER, and the other usual suspects will organize the “spontaneous” anti-war protests in three....two....one....(crickets chirping)
Leading from behind.
A lie.
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