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Pentagon might propose sending ground troops to Syria
CNN ^ | February 15, 2017 | Barbara Starr

Posted on 02/15/2017 1:32:44 PM PST by TBP

The Defense Department might propose that the US send conventional ground combat forces into northern Syria for the first time to speed up the fight against ISIS, CNN has learned.

"It's possible that you may see conventional forces hit the ground in Syria for some period of time," one defense official told CNN.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pentagon; syria; ustroops
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Do we really want to get in the middle of a war in which both sides hate us?
1 posted on 02/15/2017 1:32:44 PM PST by TBP
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one defense official told CNN.

This guy needs to be re-stationed to Alaska. Loose lips and all that.

2 posted on 02/15/2017 1:35:29 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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F-N!!!!!!!


3 posted on 02/15/2017 1:36:24 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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NO!

4 posted on 02/15/2017 1:37:11 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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“One Defense Official said” and CNN = FAKE NEWS.


5 posted on 02/15/2017 1:37:40 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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Do we really want to believe a CNN report using unnamed sources?


6 posted on 02/15/2017 1:39:26 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: pgkdan

But you’re in Virginia, not Alaska.


7 posted on 02/15/2017 1:39:55 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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We’re going to need them here. Send them out to maintain the peace at the next Soros protest riot. Have them escort the swamp things out of government. Send them to secure the border. They don’t like us in the ME, fine, bring ‘em home.


8 posted on 02/15/2017 1:39:59 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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No.


9 posted on 02/15/2017 1:41:51 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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At his confirmation hearing, Mattis was not asked about putting more troops into Syria, but he did explain how he would seek to change US military efforts in Iraq and Syria from Obama administration.

Is Congress going to declare war on Syria? Otherwise unless we're invited in by Bashar Assad's government we would have absolutely no legal right to be there.

10 posted on 02/15/2017 1:44:04 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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This isn’t even fake news. It is a CNN wet dream posing as news!

No Sources named!

This was not even fake news.

Just a reporter’s wet random druggy dreams posing as news.

“So, that’s not even fake news, it’s just fake.”


11 posted on 02/15/2017 1:46:32 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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It really depends on the mission and duration.


12 posted on 02/15/2017 1:46:53 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Not a good idea. We should provide, intel, logistics, training, air power, and advice. No need to lose American lives fighting their fight.


13 posted on 02/15/2017 1:47:12 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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Nope


14 posted on 02/15/2017 1:50:35 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Wading into 1500 year old conflicts where every side is against every side is a great way to get spanked soundly and evicted.


15 posted on 02/15/2017 1:52:06 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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YES!!! TBP has been banned again!!!

PLEASE let it be permanent this time.

This major P.O.S., anti-Trump troll was banned post-nomination along with many others, but most were subsequently unbanned and most of those, including TBP and pinkbell, have done nothing but post garbage here ever since then.


16 posted on 02/15/2017 2:04:01 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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If the bottomfeeding Syrians don’t want to fight for their country, why the hell should American men and women do it? Send the politicians. I know they can work this out.


17 posted on 02/15/2017 2:14:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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No! Never! End all these senseless entanglements! Trump ran on a platform of disengaging. He better not let the evil Neocons lure him in to this foolish intervention!


18 posted on 02/15/2017 2:19:12 PM PST by 2big2fail
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I know I don’t. That was one thing I liked about Trump from the beginning, he wanted to stay out of the endless wars in the middle east.


19 posted on 02/15/2017 2:21:32 PM PST by Rusty0604 (bc)
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There are already ground troops in Syria.


20 posted on 02/15/2017 2:23:14 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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