Posted on 06/19/2014 7:56:07 AM PDT by kristinn
BREAKING. President in the briefing room around 12:30P ET for statement on Iraq.
Steve Brusk, CNN: The president's meeting with the national security team will be in the WH Situation Room beginning in about ten minutes
Yes, I can only agree about it being “condescending” and to separate himself. Maybe too because “folks-wagon” comes into my subconscious.
Don’t have a clue, I just did a search on ISIS flag.
I bet someone on FR will tell us.
Now 1/2 hour late...probably can’t figure out how many lies he can get away with.
He’ll NEVER fit in...anywhere.
What a non-person. Puppet. He should just say, talk to the hand. That’s what powers him.
Didn’t realize I needed the “/s” ;)
We’d better be careful with a lot more than our ™’s.
All he’s doing is building up anticipation and suspense. EVERYONE counting the seconds and minutes.
has he shown up yet?
Foxnews.com reports: Expected to send Kerry and Special Forces.
On yeah.....now I remember. It was Bergdahl and the release of five top terrorist generals, ironically just in time for the new Iraq war. A mere two weeks ago, abracadabra......poof!
Obama sending up to 300 troops as ‘advisors’. Says no combat role. But will be able to do ‘precise, targeted’ airstikes if needed.
Come together, rise above differences.....
Blaming Bush now. What took him so long. I guess he wanted to end with that, as if it was the most important thing he had to say. Turd.
How did Vietnam start, again?
Obama talked about ‘deep scars’ of America’s war in Iraq.
Obama looks hung over like a bitch
No targeted strikes without further consultation w/ Congress, allies.
is he still talking?
“Obama sending up to 300 troops as ‘advisors’.”
‘How did Vietnam start, again?’
We have been there and done that under rat presidents in Nam.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1961.html
January 20, 1961- John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. President and declares “...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to insure the survival and the success of liberty.” Privately, outgoing President Eisenhower tells him “I think you’re going to have to send troops...” to Southeast Asia.
The youthful Kennedy administration is inexperienced in matters regarding Southeast Asia. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense, 44-year-old Robert McNamara, along with civilian planners recruited from the academic community, will play a crucial role in deciding White House strategy for Vietnam over the next several years. Under their leadership, the United States will wage a limited war to force a political settlement.
However, the U.S. will be opposed by an enemy dedicated to total military victory “...whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle...until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified,” as stated by Ho Chi Minh.
May 1961 - Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits President Diem in South Vietnam and hails the embattled leader as the ‘Winston Churchill of Asia.’
May 1961 - President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret ‘Special Advisors’ to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of ‘counter-insurgency’ in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas.
The role of the Green Berets soon expands to include the establishment of Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG) made up of fierce mountain men known as the Montagnards. These groups establish a series of fortified camps strung out along the mountains to thwart infiltration by North Vietnamese.
Fall - The conflict widens as 26,000 Viet Cong launch several successful attacks on South Vietnamese troops. Diem then requests more military aid from the Kennedy administration.
October 1961 - To get a first-hand look at the deteriorating military situation, top Kennedy aides, Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow, visit Vietnam. “If Vietnam goes, it will be exceedingly difficult to hold Southeast Asia,” Taylor reports to the President and advises Kennedy to expand the number of U.S. military advisors and to send 8000 combat soldiers.
Defense Secretary McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend instead a massive show of force by sending six divisions (200,000 men) to Vietnam. However, the President decides against sending any combat troops.
October 24, 1961 - On the sixth anniversary of the Republic of South Vietnam, President Kennedy sends a letter to President Diem and pledges “the United States is determined to help Vietnam preserve its independence...”
President Kennedy then sends additional military advisors along with American helicopter units to transport and direct South Vietnamese troops in battle, thus involving Americans in combat operations. Kennedy justifies the expanding U.S. military role as a means “...to prevent a Communist takeover of Vietnam which is in accordance with a policy our government has followed since 1954.” The number of military advisors sent by Kennedy will eventually surpass 16,000.
December 1961 - Viet Cong guerrillas now control much of the countryside in South Vietnam and frequently ambush South Vietnamese troops. The cost to America of maintaining South Vietnam’s sagging 200,000 man army and managing the overall conflict in Vietnam rises to a million dollars per day.
yep
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