Posted on 09/09/2016 3:40:09 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
More than 400 additional US troops have arrived in Iraq in recent days as the battle for Mosul is expected to begin soon, a US defense official said Thursday.
Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Colonel John Dorrian stated that there are 4,460 US troops in Iraq, compared to 4,000 a week ago, and that Iraqi security forces are preparing to reclaim Mosul. Dorrian did not specify what the US troops would be doing, but mentioned that they were setting up a logistics hub at the recaptured Qayyarah airbase to the south of Mosul, which will serve as a staging area for Iraqi forces.
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“There will be absolutely no boots on the ground.” Barack Obama and numerous others in his administration.
Tell that to the 82nd and 101st.
Barack Chamberlain Obammy has spoken.
The war is over.
I’m out of here.
Isn’t this the THIRD time we’ve captured this city?? Enough, already!
Gee aint that called “boots-on-the-ground” or sumpin ???
This time we get to keep it...I guess...
:)
Do we always announce ahead of time what we are planning to do?
Obama doesn't want his friends to be caught off guard.
IIRC the generals told 0bama to leave at least 10,000 troops in Iraq. 0bama brought the U.S. troop level in Iraq to 0. ISIS took over. Now we have over 4,000 troops in Iraq. Go figure.
Pray for Our Armed Forces, and pray for America’s future.
Obama wants to recapture Mosul before he leaves office so as to be a part of his legacy, even if US commanders say that they are not yet ready to launch this offensive. If the US forces are not yet ready and it results in more casualties, well, that is just too bad. Obama’s legacy takes priority over American GIs’ lives.
Besides being for Obama’s legacy, this would also fit in nicely with the election season. A win in October in mosul would make the Dems look better.
Chamberlain was wrong, but he was loyal. Churchill even had him in his war cabinet.
Apparently. Except when we’re giving the Iranians several hundred billion in cash and gold...then it’s crickets.
I guess we (the US) are villains and therefore contractually obligated to reveal our plans well ahead of time.
Was Chamerlain wrong? I don’t mean morally, I mean had he really any alternative? Neither the British or French people wanted to fight Germany, there was huge rejoicing among the British people when Chamerlain came back from Munich.
And not just the British and French, the Americans and Russians had zero intention of getting involved in any war over Czechoslovakia, the Russians were in no shape to fight after the disastrous purges and the US, with a tiny army and navy, certainly had no intention of fighting any damn European war.
So what was Chamerlain to do, launch a half-cocked war against the might of mighty Nazi Germany against the wishes of his population with a woefully ill-equipped army and an obsolete air force?
Chamberlain wasn’t stupid, he wasn’t weak, he wasn’t a coward, he saw what could be achieved and what could not. He knew he could trust Hitler just about as far as he could spit him but he knew there was nothing he could do, except do what he did, buy time, and start building Spitfires, Hurricanes and conscripting men for the army to fight in the war that he had just postponed for a year or so.
It wasn’t heroic, Churchill growling in the wings deserves the rightful praise for being right about Hitler (one of about only two or three things he was ever right about in his long political career) but if Churchill had been in power he would have been just as impotent as Chamberlain was no matter how much he might have blustered.
Sorry to drag the thread off-topic.
That’s weird. Hillary says no ground troops, and she’s a warmonger usually, and Obama sends them, and he is a peacenik. Just odd. /sarc
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