Could it be that the additional troops sent over to Iraq are not for the election, as the official story goes, but are rather for the push into Syria? I agree with your assessment--this is entering the final stage. The President won't waste his time going to Congress or the UN again.
Hmmmmm....I dunno.
It might all be done the same day, LOL.
What I would view as a sign that the game is afoot, would be the positioning of a second or third carrier group in the region. They won't do all this on the ground, perhaps some special forces and arty.
We will punish them with air strikes. To do that real hard, we need carrier support and their cruise missiles.
The President won't waste his time going to Congress or the UN again.
Don't need to do either to protect our forces in Iraq. Besides, we have the recent precedent of the French in the Ivory Coast.