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Obama to Send Troops to Syria
abcnews.go.com ^ | Oct 30, 2015 | Parkinson, Luis Martinez, Jim Avila, JUSTIN FISHEL

Posted on 10/30/2015 12:17:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

President Obama is directing the Pentagon to send special forces into Syria to advise the Syrian opposition in its fight against ISIS, the White House said today.

The change will station U.S. special operations forces on the ground for the first time in Syria in its fight against the Islamic State after thousands of airstrikes in the past year produced mixed results, although their mission is expected to be primarily advisory.

The change "is consistent with strategy to intensify the battle against ISIS,” a White House senior official told ABC News.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: syria
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1 posted on 10/30/2015 12:17:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

And we will fight for the wrong side.


2 posted on 10/30/2015 12:19:01 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Berlin_Freeper

....just another Odungo lie


3 posted on 10/30/2015 12:19:26 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The fight against ISIS?? Obama always calls them “ISIL” even though most others call them ISIS. Surprised a White House official would say ISIS since Obama never uses that terminology.


4 posted on 10/30/2015 12:21:18 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: lurk

What a fiasco. Are we going to fight the Russians ? What the Hell are we doing? Obama is so humiliated by the Russians killing Isis he can’t sleep. There is no “syrian free army”. All 5 were killed. Assaad never did a thing to this country.
This needs to be stopped by the WAR POWERS ACT NOW!! there is no require congressional approval of this invasion of a sovereign country— absolutely NONE!!


5 posted on 10/30/2015 12:23:25 PM PDT by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; xzins

So he’s sending our elite forces to join Al Qaeda in fighting Assad and ISIS?

The Russian bombers are not going to be able to avoid hitting our troops.

This is beyond stupid. This is criminal.


6 posted on 10/30/2015 12:24:28 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: P-Marlowe; Berlin_Freeper

IIRC, al Nusra is one of our ‘friendly forces’ in Syria with connections to al Qaeda and in opposition to Assad.

A former al Nusrite is al Baghdadi who is the leader of ISIS.

I need to check on the above, but I think my memory is correct.


7 posted on 10/30/2015 12:27:43 PM PDT by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

8 posted on 10/30/2015 12:29:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Fifty (50) U.S. troops. Even if Special Forces, woefully below what’s needed. Might as well have sent none.


9 posted on 10/30/2015 12:31:30 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: P-Marlowe

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
“Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred


10 posted on 10/30/2015 12:31:59 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Horrible.


11 posted on 10/30/2015 12:33:38 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This is what happens when you embarrass a Class-A Narcissist. They will scorch earth attempting to get even, thinking they are saving face.


12 posted on 10/30/2015 12:34:03 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe - Yeb Arbusto es un payaso.)
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To: P-Marlowe

The “Syrian opposition” is fighting a two-front war? Is that how I understand it? They are fighting Assad and ISIS? Didn’t Assad just meet with Putin in Moscow?! This moron is getting WWIII rolling, isn’t he?


13 posted on 10/30/2015 12:34:19 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: WENDLE

Give him another peace prize. Make it stop!


14 posted on 10/30/2015 12:35:17 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe - Yeb Arbusto es un payaso.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; Berlin_Freeper

I am also surprised abc had Obama in the headline. They usually say pentagon when it comes to sending military anyplace.


15 posted on 10/30/2015 12:35:32 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The “no war” _resident.

Did he find an imaginary red line that was crossed?


16 posted on 10/30/2015 12:35:58 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW - GO MONTHLY IF YOU POSSIBLY & RELIABLY CAN!)
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To: WENDLE

“Assaad never did a thing to this country.”

BS. He provided material, logistical, training, resupply, staging and volunteers for Al Qaeda-in-Iraq (AIQ) insurgents up until our departure. He is responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of US casualties.

There would have been no Iraqi insurgency without Assads assistance and support of Sunni insurgents. After we left AIQ morphed into ISIS and set its sights on a global caliphate. Assad sowed the seeds of his own destruction. I have no pity for either. We’ve been aligned against both ISIS and Assad since 2004.


17 posted on 10/30/2015 12:36:36 PM PDT by Justa
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To: WENDLE

God knows what the objective is. If we ask, we are being racist.


18 posted on 10/30/2015 12:37:34 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: WENDLE

God knows what the objective is. If we ask, we are being racist.


19 posted on 10/30/2015 12:37:35 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: P-Marlowe

“This is beyond stupid. This is criminal.”

Obama has already fired every competent officer, reduced the troops, instituted gender garbage, so what’s next? What about decimating the best we have by sending too few with incredibly hamstringing rules of engagement into a battlefield.

I have a question. When our troops are killed will they be called combatants?


20 posted on 10/30/2015 12:38:14 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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