Posted on 08/12/2014 10:12:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
US Sends Another 130 Troops To Iraq To Assess Humanitarian Crisis Marines described by defence secretary as ‘assessors’ will weigh up how best to help Yazidis trapped on Mt Sinjar
Another 130 US troops arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on what the Pentagon described as a temporary mission to assess the scope of the humanitarian crisis facing thousands of displaced Iraqi civilians trapped on Mt Sinjar and evaluate options for getting them out to safety.
The defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, announced the deployment in remarks to Marines at the Camp Pendleton base in Southern California, on the final stop of a week-long, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia.
“This is not a combat, boots-on-the-ground kind of operation,” Hagel said. “We’re not going back into Iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in in Iraq.”
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Usual Obama. Form a committee to look like he cares. By the time the fools do an assessment, the people will be dead.
He will then claim he “did something”.
“We’ve got to do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs, Gentlemen.”
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski comes to mind too. That’s Carter, that’s what came to be the Taliban, al Qaeda, Khomeini, muslim brotherhood, and IS now. No more US support for Islam. Successive generations of US admins have mobilized, emboldened, empowered & enabled Islamists. Where we’re now isn’t the end, just the beginning.
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