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Pentagon to send 450 additional troops to help Iraqis fight Islamic State
Washington Post ^ | 06/10/2015 | Missy Ryan

Posted on 06/10/2015 9:40:15 AM PDT by GIdget2004

The Obama administration will send an additional 450 military advisers to Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday, deepening U.S. involvement in the war against the Islamic State and underscoring the fragility of a U.S. strategy which rests on the abilities of local forces.

The new troops, once in place, will bring the number of American service members in Iraq to around 3,500. The soldiers are expected to be focused on assisting Iraqi forces and tribal fighters prepare for an offensive to reclaim the western city of Ramadi, which fell to Islamic State militants in May after a retreat by Iraqi forces.

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1 posted on 06/10/2015 9:40:15 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

Where are the MOABs? I paid for the MOABs. I want the MOABs used. I want 100 MOABs dropped with a sprinkling of hundreds of Daisy Cutters for added glitz.


2 posted on 06/10/2015 9:43:40 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: GIdget2004

That’ll do ‘er....

dumbass

He should send 45,000 with orders to wipe them off the face of the earth


3 posted on 06/10/2015 9:44:04 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: GIdget2004

These aren’t even half measures, they are 0.0001 measures.


4 posted on 06/10/2015 9:47:50 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: GIdget2004

I always knew that I would wake one day and read that we finally solved the mystery to creating anti-gravity footwear.


5 posted on 06/10/2015 9:48:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: GIdget2004

If the ass had just kept 3,500 American troops in Iraq, there wouldn’t be an ISIS.


6 posted on 06/10/2015 9:48:27 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Mr. K

Obama wants just enough so that ISIS can capture a few and publicly parade and execute them.

He does not want to win.


7 posted on 06/10/2015 9:48:49 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Mr. K

The Enemy Combatant-in-Chief will do no such thing. ISIS is his baby. They’re Iran’s shock troops. Once they do their job (which is almost done), Iran will sweep in and claim the territory. ISIS will defect to Iran, which will by then have the BOMB.

See here:
OUR MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENT... AND THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (Hillary)
http://theamericanreport.org/2015/06/10/our-muslim-brotherhood-president-and-their-presidential-candidate/


8 posted on 06/10/2015 9:49:11 AM PDT by Randall_S (Let's sink some ships.)
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To: GIdget2004

If they haven’t been able to teach Iraqi troops not to drop their guns and run like crazy at the first sign of the enemy by now then they never will. And an additional 450 trainers won’t change that.


9 posted on 06/10/2015 9:50:48 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: samadams2000

Me too! WE WANT MOABs...WE WANT MOABS!


10 posted on 06/10/2015 9:55:48 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: GIdget2004
He calls the advisers so he doesn't have to admit to boots on the ground.
11 posted on 06/10/2015 9:56:52 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: GIdget2004
"...Obama administration will send an additional 450 military advisers to Iraq..."

Wait, didn't we just pull everybody out of Iraq?
Nowww, we're going back in?
Oh, my head hurts....

12 posted on 06/10/2015 9:57:13 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: GIdget2004

the=them


13 posted on 06/10/2015 9:57:22 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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This ?man? is anti-American through and through...


14 posted on 06/10/2015 10:00:31 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: GIdget2004
Pentagon to send 450 additional troops to help Iraqis fight ...It's only 900 troops, what could go wrong?
15 posted on 06/10/2015 10:01:57 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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There is no way the 2012 election was honest...NO WAY....


16 posted on 06/10/2015 10:03:03 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: GIdget2004
And how many have the Saudi’s sent? Or Egypt? Or Jordan?

Or the biggest question: How many actual soldiers who want to kick ISIS out of their country has Iraq bothered to send?

17 posted on 06/10/2015 10:06:13 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: GIdget2004
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18 posted on 06/10/2015 10:10:03 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Boonie

We’re sending, 450 additional troops. A Knights of Columbus Council and one angry poodle....- Maxwell Smart
I find that hard to believe Shmart - Zeigfreid
Would you believe a Roto-Rooter Man....


19 posted on 06/10/2015 10:11:15 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Instead of 450 advisors, we should send 45,000....
BOMBS....Send them back to the stone age...

Oh, wait a minute.....


20 posted on 06/10/2015 10:13:30 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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