Posted on 10/12/2014 10:56:38 AM PDT by lowbridge
Barack Obamas emphatic and repeated promise not to deploy new American combat forces in Iraq now appears to have put the president into an extremely awkward and possibly indefensible position.
Reports from various news sources show that Obamas limited air campaign against ISIS has failed to stop the aggressive onslaught by the terror organization. And number of military experts have recently criticized the presidents no boots on the ground approach as anemic and ineffective.
A senior government official in Iraq is now claiming that up to 10,000 armed fighters for the Islamic State are amassed at the very gates of Baghdad, poised to assault the capital, according to The Telegraph.
Iraqi officials have issued a desperate plea for America to bring US ground troops back to the embattled country, as heavily armed Islamic State militants came within striking distance of Baghdad.
Amid reports that Isil forces have advanced as far as Abu Ghraib, a town that is effectively a suburb of Baghdad
Sabah al-Karhout, president of the provisional council of Anbar Province, [warned that] the vast desert province to the west of Baghdad has now largely fallen under jihadist control.
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Thanks for playing.
Regards this administration, a hand gesture and a grunt pretty much covers the communicating part.
Glad I could help you understand the error of your ways. No thanks needed. I see it as my patriotic duty do help deliberalize what has become of the ‘conservative’ right.
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