No “Boots on the Ground”, Mr. President? Yeah. Right.
As Jonn noted yesterday, we’ve lost another one in Iraq. This brings to 3 the number of US troops lost during combat operations against Daesh.
The SEAL (initial reports were that he was a soldier) who was KIA was acting as an advisor to Kurdish Peshmerga at the time. He was killed by direct fire in an engagement that occurred after Daesh forces penetrated Pesmerga lines.
But don’t worry. The POTUS has repeatedly told us we won’t have any “boots on the ground” or “combat troops” in Iraq or Syria.
Yeah, right. Being killed while serving as an advisor to Peshmerga ground forces certainly sounds like “boots on the ground” to me. And getting killed by direct-fire during a ground engagement also sounds one helluva lot like ground combat, too.
But rest assured – those aren’t “combat troops”. And we don’t have “boots on the ground” there.
But what do you expect? This is the same POTUS that told everyone they could keep their doctor under ObamaCare, too. How’s that worked out for everyone?
Yeah, you’re right – your leg’s wet. And it’s not raining.
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Leaves me wondering how the combat troops that wear boots and are serving over there think about not being combat troops. This is such bullshit.
They need to put “girly” boots on obozo and drop him on the ground….in the line of fire naturally!!
To paraphrase Hildebeest: I will not deploy combat troops to Syria/Iraq, just Special Operations personnel. There, that settles that…///
The news report last night was that ISIS/Daesh had used trucks and bulldozers to get to that group of peshmerga and their advisor.
I think it’s long past time to go in and bomb every nook and cranny of that craphole Mosul. It is not all that hard to locate heavy equipment like that. It’s just HARD to decide to give the order to do the smart thing, isn’t it? But when you have a putz in the White House and a moron as SecyState, and a whole closetful of enablers to go along with it, this is what happens.
Wouldn’t it to be interesting to see precisely what each of our politicians were doing during the moments this man was losing his life?
I seem to recall Heinlein commenting that the body of an “adviser” lying in the sun a few days smelled pretty much the same as that of a soldier.