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US 'preparing shift in Iraq policy'
Telegraph UK ^ | June 10, 2015 | By Raf Sanchez

Posted on 06/09/2015 8:53:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The White House is reportedly planning a shift in strategy in Iraq that would see hundreds of American military trainers deployed to help retake Ramadi and the delay of long-held plans to drive the Islamic State from Mosul.

Six months after US forces began training Iraqi troops to take on the jihadist fighters, a string of defeats on the battlefield has prompted the Obama administration into a recalibration of its plans.

The American military hopes to build up enough well-trained and well-equipped Iraqi forces to retake the city of Ramadi, which fell to Isil in mid-May.

The plan would see US troop levels in Iraq rise from their current 3,000 to around 3,500.

But the focus on Anbar province will come at the expense of long-held ambitions to liberate Mosul, Iraq's second largest city and which was captured by Isil in June last year.

In February this year, the Pentagon boasted openly that it was preparing Kurdish and Iraqi troops for an assault on Mosul in northern Iraq by the end of May.

That timeline slipped as Isil fighters gained ground in Anbar and now appears to have been pushed back into next year.

The shift in White House thinking reflects the failure the frustration with Iraqi forces unable to hold their own against Isil troops but also the limits of air power in defeating a determined on the insurgency ground.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anbar; failure; iran; iraq; juniorvarsity; leadingfrombehind; obama; obamasfault; obamateur; ramadi; rop; waronterror; whoops; worldwar3
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1 posted on 06/09/2015 8:53:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; ...

Active Duty ping.


2 posted on 06/09/2015 8:54:07 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m pretty sure Anbar Province was secured at one time, same with Ramadi. Mostly paid for in American blood, too.

I wonder who was in charge since then....anyone? Anyone?

L


3 posted on 06/09/2015 8:55:37 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
To actively helping ISIS?
4 posted on 06/09/2015 8:58:31 PM PDT by null and void (I wish we lived in less interesting times, but at least we have front-row seats.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I thought Obama pranced around taking credit for getting us out of Iraq.
5 posted on 06/09/2015 8:59:11 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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US 'preparing shift in Iraq policy'

Mayhap to a winning policy?

6 posted on 06/09/2015 9:01:01 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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woah. now youre just talking crazy. this is obummer we are talking about. he has never met a victory he couldn’t turn into a defeat


7 posted on 06/09/2015 9:10:21 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Steely Tom

Now he can take credit for getting us back in.

See how that works?

L


8 posted on 06/09/2015 9:12:28 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We could do a 1-1 ratio of “trainer” to Iraqi and it wouldn’t make a damned bit of difference.

L


9 posted on 06/09/2015 9:13:33 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: dp0622

So sorry, my bad. Lost myself in hope for a moment. ;-)


10 posted on 06/09/2015 9:13:39 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just in time for the election. Woohoo. (I can’t think of a bigger sarcasm tag)


11 posted on 06/09/2015 9:14:19 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is “military trainers “ now a euphemism for Special Forces?


12 posted on 06/09/2015 9:16:43 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Marxist Hater never does anything that is not for POLITICAL GAIN. And that includes hurting America....


13 posted on 06/09/2015 9:19:24 PM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trainers ? Obama is clueless.


14 posted on 06/09/2015 9:21:43 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Argus

We’ve been “training” Iraqi fighters for 12 years. Now, Obama has sent more trainers to Iraq than there are available trainees. He thinks the Mideast is just another community in need of organizing.

Absolute cluster,


15 posted on 06/09/2015 9:23:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: doc1019

18 months before we have someone who fights to win in the WH.


16 posted on 06/09/2015 9:23:37 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

If we last that long. :-(


17 posted on 06/09/2015 9:25:12 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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he is really speeding things up, isn’t he?


18 posted on 06/09/2015 9:25:46 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

So did Hitler.


19 posted on 06/09/2015 9:27:11 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: doc1019

good thing we voted in a republican congress /s


20 posted on 06/09/2015 9:29:57 PM PDT by dp0622
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