“...although we still haven’t gotten any good answers as to why we didn’t put them there two years ago, or leave them in place five years ago”
You gotta be Fkn kidding me! Only A Dem won’t admit and an MSM-captive isn’t aware that the Dem Congress cut Iraq’s Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds beginning in 2007. No money, no troops.
And they still haven’t funded counter-ISIS Ops. It’s all being done within existing budgets, on a shoe string. I can’t tell you the amount of times I heard the local Colonel yelling into the phone “there is NO MONEY” during my stint in Baghdad last year. Everyone needed something. No one had funds.
Disgusting. All the counter-ISIS talk is political show. They’ve not allocated funds.