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.
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But the press would never blame Obama...
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.
Wait, I thought this was a JV team we were against?! Oh yeah....never mind.
Paging Cindy Sheehan.
So, how many this time Ashton? 20? 30? or maybe a whopping 100?
Pathetic.
Hmm. I better get in touch with KBR.
When should we have withdrawn, 2112?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.
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.
Could it be they’ll have a troop surge?
You were close. It is 217.
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