Posted on 09/02/2014 8:20:14 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
American Special Forces commandos are on the ground fighting in northern Iraq, according to a published report, just a week after Barack Obama said that wouldn't happen during his presidency.
Even as he has authorized more than 100 target airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Iraq, Obama told the American Legion on August 26 that 'American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq.'
'I will not allow the United States to be dragged back into another ground war in Iraq,' he said, adding later that 'the answer' to ISIS 'is not to send in large-scale military deployments that overstretch our military.'
His parsing of words – 'combat troops' and 'large-scale' – now seem calculated to produce platoon-sized loopholes.
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Yeah, so much that they won’t even mention it.
LOL! You think an Obama super-bundler is going to care a bit about this hypocrisy?
Prayers for our brave young men.
They’re too busy working on their call for impeachment because the hero of benghazi left troops in Iraq too long and has them still in Afghan.
This is the audacity of power. Never tell the truth. Lie whenever its possible and do whatever it is necessary to insure that YOUR power is not weakened.
Political pressure is forcing him to appear to be doing something. I'm sure he's dragging his feet and doing as little as possible. Once we're past the midterm elections, he can resume his normal stance of "who cares".
If they ARE... why should that be public information?
Because this WH loves leaks.
They are prepared to talk about it ONLY if it is successful... and spin like crazy if it fails!
Oh good god no more dead troops please!
A lot of us are not surprised at nobama’s not doing anything to combat ISIS.
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