US considers sending combat troops to Iraq
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday that the Pentagon is planning to send US troops to fight alongside Iraqi military forces, according to Stars & Stripes;
“As [the campaign against the Islamic State] evolves there are certain operations that could be more complex than the ones in which the Iraqi security forces are currently involved,” Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee. “There are some places along the path that I think will be fairly complex terrain for them, including, for example, Mosul. And eventually as they need to restore the border between Iraq and Syria.”
Dempsey said he was not predicting that American troops would be required alongside Iraqi forces in such operations “but we’re certainly considering it.”
In any event, Dempsey said the number of U.S. combat troops fighting with the Iraqis would be relatively small.
Of course this would have been huge news leading every cable show six or seven years ago. But not now, for some reason. Probably because Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is still toeing the party line (or lie);
Despite Dempsey’s comments, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, appearing at the same hearing, repeated the Administration’s position that “U.S. military personnel will not be engaged in a ground combat mission.”
So, whichever way you want it, the Obama Administration has you covered.
Category: Terror War
The new GOP Congress will get the blame.
You’re probably right. The MSM will conveniently forget how the government works and how the winners of the last election won’t take office and be able to do anything until January. Kinda like John Kerry with his bullshit “Christmas in Cambodia” story.
So our campaign plan is basically to continue with this dis-jointed hodge podge of air strikes and slowly raising the numbers of troops (who either will or won’t be committed to combat, depending on the political climate that week) and sending mixed signals to our allies. Got it. Sounds workable. If you are a tactical moron.
We either decide to start killing ISIS wholesale or we just need to come on home and let the chips fall where they may in the Mid East. This is the biggest clusterfuck I have seen in a long time and the indecision on the part of our national leadership is laughable. General Dempsey says we need more troops. SecDef sitting right next to him says they will not be used for combat. What is the purpose? We just going to let them sit on a FOB somewhere in Iraq for an undetermined length of time and then bring them home? WTF??
What a damn clown show.
My prediction still holds. We have a division worth of troops on the ground by Easter. I guess they will all be support troops since they will not be allowed to actually kill anyone. My fucking head hurts……
Everybody that didn’t see this coming stand upside down with your head in a bucket of muslim guts.
“No boots on the ground.”
Remember those words?
Good thing those guys there now are wearing tennis shoes…
Meet the new war
Same as the old war
(with apologies to Townsend and Daltry)
Dumper was talking gibberish. As the campaign evolves? He means as the shit gets deep and Iraqi troops abandon their posts, and US-supplied weapons and vehicles–again.
Oh, that tough terrain? That’s the ground between Fort Drum and the nearest Canadian mall.
When do we get to see hippies shouting, “Obama lied, people died!”?
Yeah, I’m not holding my breath either.
We can dream, Whitey, we can dream…
Jonn…”So, whichever way you want it, the Obama Administration has you covered.” No matter what I thought to write…this pretty much said it.
Maybe we could just have our guys wear riot gear and use rubber bullets, and … wait, I think I need to VOMIT.
See, this is just a continuation of Bush’s war because the new Congress is not supporting the President because he’s black.