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(Ashton) Carter says US to deploy more forces to back Iraq's anti-IS war
MSN ^ | Apr. 18, 2016 | AFP

Posted on 04/18/2016 1:52:09 PM PDT by Innovative

The United States will deploy additional forces to Iraq and make Apache attack helicopters available to support the country's troops, US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter said Monday in Baghdad.

President Barack Obama hailed the 2011 withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as a major accomplishment of his presidency, but the US has been steadily drawn back into the country since the Islamic State jihadist group overran swathes of territory in 2014.

Washington heads an international coalition that is carrying out strikes against IS and also providing training and other assistance to forces fighting the jihadists in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria.

"We are going to bring in additional forces," Carter said after arriving in Baghdad on a surprise visit, without specifying the size of the new deployment.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; islamicstate; terrorism
Of course, if the US hadn't withdrawn all troops too early, we wouldn't be facing this today.

But the press would never blame Obama...

1 posted on 04/18/2016 1:52:09 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

If we hadn’t gone in there in the first place, we wouldn’t be facing this today.

If our CIA hadn’t armed, trained, and funded them, we wouldn’t be facing this today.

Whether we have troops in Iraq or not has exactly zero to do with it.


2 posted on 04/18/2016 2:10:43 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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Wait, I thought this was a JV team we were against?! Oh yeah....never mind.


3 posted on 04/18/2016 2:18:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Innovative

Paging Cindy Sheehan.


4 posted on 04/18/2016 2:40:05 PM PDT by FES0844
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To: Innovative
We are going to bring in additional forces," Carter said after arriving in Baghdad on a surprise visit, without specifying the size of the new deployment.

So, how many this time Ashton? 20? 30? or maybe a whopping 100?

Pathetic.

5 posted on 04/18/2016 2:41:36 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Innovative

Hmm. I better get in touch with KBR.


6 posted on 04/18/2016 2:52:36 PM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Innovative

When should we have withdrawn, 2112?

They will always be trash, they will always fight, and they aren’t worth one dead American.

They are sand monkey scum. Let them all rot.


7 posted on 04/18/2016 5:46:32 PM PDT by EEGator
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I’m sure Secy Carter will be leading our troops, from his leather chair in the Pentagon.

Another Obama wimp, like Mabus, Dempsey and those in the Marines who are caving in on gender soldiers issues.


8 posted on 04/18/2016 7:48:54 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Could it be they’ll have a troop surge?


9 posted on 04/18/2016 11:09:46 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: unixfox

You were close. It is 217.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/18/united-states-200-more-troops-apache-helicopters-iraq/83180818/


10 posted on 04/19/2016 1:13:59 AM PDT by Krosan
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