Posted on 08/13/2014 6:24:17 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The prospect of having U.S. troops help stage a rescue mission in Iraq appears "far less likely" a Defense Department official said Wednesday following the return of a team of military personnel from a mountain where religious refugees had taken shelter.
Earlier in the day, the White House appeared to walk a fine line on the question of an evacuation attempt as armed U.S. troops arrived in Islamic State-held territory in northern Iraq to plan a possible rescue mission while officials insisted they wouldBut Wednesday night
Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said the troops sent to Mt. Sinjar had "assessed that there are far fewer Yazidis there than previously feared" and those who remain are "in better condition than previously believed and continue to have access to the food and water we dropped."
As a result, Kirby said, officials had "determined that an evacuation mission is far less likely."
Since President Obama announced last Thursday that he had authorized airstrikes in Iraq, he and his deputies have stressed that U.S. combat troops will not return to the warzone.
But amid concerns that the "limited" airstrikes against Islamic State militants are having a limited impact, his security team earlier reviewed new options for potentially rescuing the Yazidi refugees stuck on the mountain.
One of the options the administration was reviewing, a White House official indicated Wednesday, could include ground troops -- just not combat troops.
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Would have been a day late and a dollar short, anyway.
On purpose.
OBAMA will let them all die....Maybe the French and British will do something...
HE KEEPS SHOWING HIS MUZZIE BONA FIDES.
“Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said the troops sent to Mt. Sinjar had “assessed that there are far fewer Yazidis there than previously feared...”
Perhaps because most are now dead?
Hell has a special place waiting for Obama. This stain will rest on him for the rest of his nefarious life. It also rests on America as well. We have the opportunity to stop an evil force from wantonly murdering children and we are doing very, very little.
If anyone had any doubts as to Barry being a Muzzie, THEY NEED TO PULL THEIR HEADS OUT OF THEIR ARSES. Barry went into Libya in such a hurry that he would not await Congress’ input for much LESS than this.
Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said the troops sent to Mt. Sinjar had “assessed that there are far fewer Yazidis there than previously feared” and those who remain are “in better condition than previously believed and continue to have access to the food and water we dropped.”
So that food and water will last forever is what he’s saying?
If they would hurry up and die, Obozo wouldn’t have to worry about them.
Word that the Kurds had found a way to get most of them off the mountain has been circulating on line since last Saturday. So it’s kind of astonishing that our defense department is just figuring this out.
I love the item about the group of refugees who said they actually like the mountain and have decided to stay there. It’d be completely in keeping with the mentality of our administration for our Marines to be tasked to rescue them by force.
to rescue Christians from certain death would be promoting religion and we must never do that (sarc)
haven’t we seen scenes on TV of large groups of these people on the mountain - some film clips of them trying to get on a chopper and another chopper going down killing the pilot because the load was too great for the aircraft??
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