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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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To: Defiant
He wants to kill off all our best warriors before the coup

I actually think that is a true statement. I thought it the other day after the supposedly friendly fire incident that killed 5 Special Forces members.

61 posted on 06/18/2014 5:05:30 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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To: kristinn

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Worst case of testosterone poisoning I have ever seen.


62 posted on 06/18/2014 6:38:44 AM PDT by Valin (I'm not completely worthless. I can be used as a bad example.)
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To: kristinn

No. We are not going to save obambi from his mistakes.


63 posted on 06/18/2014 7:14:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Radicalized via the Internet)
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To: kristinn

Focus-group data must have just come in.


64 posted on 06/18/2014 7:16:03 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: kristinn
The whole of the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier - Prince Otto von Bismark, first chancellor of the German Empire, 1871-1890

65 posted on 06/18/2014 7:37:05 AM PDT by Gritty (The war is over. We won. - Michael Yon, Top Iraq War Correspondent, 07/21/2008)
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To: kristinn

Maybe the dipshi* shouldn’t announce his plans or the numbers to the world.

Why can’t he walk in front of a bus with Joe Biden and save the country?


66 posted on 06/18/2014 7:58:50 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: randita

I don’t know. I felt like if a bunch of Muslims couldn’t govern themselves after ten years of blood and monetary sacrifice from us, then that’s too doggone bad.

Their own army runs away—what’s the remedy for that? If only we had stayed and held their hands for another ten years,...We don’t owe them a @#@XX@@ thing. We should have left after we satisfied ourselves that there were no WMD’s in Iraq. If they want to kill each other, that’s not our problem.


67 posted on 06/18/2014 8:22:04 AM PDT by paristexas
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To: kristinn

James 1:8

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.


68 posted on 06/18/2014 8:31:13 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: gleeaikin
RE: "And so it begins."
Dittos.
69 posted on 06/18/2014 8:31:57 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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To: kristinn

I do not trust Obama’s judgment on these matters. It’s rough but cut our losses. Once he had surrendered by unilateral withdrawal, it’s over.
I can’t think of another conflict which we did re engage.


70 posted on 06/18/2014 10:56:39 AM PDT by griswold3 (I was born heI're in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: kristinn

Sounds like it will be a target rich environment. Send in the fly-overs.


71 posted on 06/18/2014 12:15:11 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Put that big-eared SOB on the point.


72 posted on 06/18/2014 1:46:20 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself")
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To: FlyingEagle; All

Today in Congress, pleas were being made to use drones to hit ISIS forces as they travel across desert to cities to conquer.


73 posted on 06/18/2014 4:01:54 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: kristinn

Why do I get the feeling this will amount to little more than sending some soldiers over, saddled with strict ROEs, just so dear leader can belch about how manly he is.


74 posted on 06/18/2014 4:28:40 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: kristinn

This on the job training for the Kenyan loser has got to stop.


75 posted on 06/18/2014 4:31:18 PM PDT by jetson
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To: kristinn

We have been there and done that under rat presidents in Nam.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1961.html

January 20, 1961- John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. President and declares “...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to insure the survival and the success of liberty.” Privately, outgoing President Eisenhower tells him “I think you’re going to have to send troops...” to Southeast Asia.

The youthful Kennedy administration is inexperienced in matters regarding Southeast Asia. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense, 44-year-old Robert McNamara, along with civilian planners recruited from the academic community, will play a crucial role in deciding White House strategy for Vietnam over the next several years. Under their leadership, the United States will wage a limited war to force a political settlement.

However, the U.S. will be opposed by an enemy dedicated to total military victory “...whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle...until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified,” as stated by Ho Chi Minh.

May 1961 - Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits President Diem in South Vietnam and hails the embattled leader as the ‘Winston Churchill of Asia.’

May 1961 - President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret ‘Special Advisors’ to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of ‘counter-insurgency’ in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas.

The role of the Green Berets soon expands to include the establishment of Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG) made up of fierce mountain men known as the Montagnards. These groups establish a series of fortified camps strung out along the mountains to thwart infiltration by North Vietnamese.

Fall - The conflict widens as 26,000 Viet Cong launch several successful attacks on South Vietnamese troops. Diem then requests more military aid from the Kennedy administration.

October 1961 - To get a first-hand look at the deteriorating military situation, top Kennedy aides, Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow, visit Vietnam. “If Vietnam goes, it will be exceedingly difficult to hold Southeast Asia,” Taylor reports to the President and advises Kennedy to expand the number of U.S. military advisors and to send 8000 combat soldiers.

Defense Secretary McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend instead a massive show of force by sending six divisions (200,000 men) to Vietnam. However, the President decides against sending any combat troops.

October 24, 1961 - On the sixth anniversary of the Republic of South Vietnam, President Kennedy sends a letter to President Diem and pledges “the United States is determined to help Vietnam preserve its independence...”

President Kennedy then sends additional military advisors along with American helicopter units to transport and direct South Vietnamese troops in battle, thus involving Americans in combat operations. Kennedy justifies the expanding U.S. military role as a means “...to prevent a Communist takeover of Vietnam which is in accordance with a policy our government has followed since 1954.” The number of military advisors sent by Kennedy will eventually surpass 16,000.

December 1961 - Viet Cong guerrillas now control much of the countryside in South Vietnam and frequently ambush South Vietnamese troops. The cost to America of maintaining South Vietnam’s sagging 200,000 man army and managing the overall conflict in Vietnam rises to a million dollars per day.


76 posted on 06/18/2014 5:05:11 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni WonDoer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: sport

Damn good points! Totally agree!


77 posted on 06/18/2014 9:09:54 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: sport

Damn good points! Totally agree!


78 posted on 06/18/2014 9:09:57 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Trapper6012

So will little barry bath house bastard boy make these spec ops assets stick to his sick, deadly, suicidal ROE? This clown needs to be gone ...


79 posted on 06/18/2014 9:19:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: paristexas

We found WMDs, so stop passing that lie around.


80 posted on 06/18/2014 9:24:48 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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