Putting additional security in to protect the Green Zone and the Taj Mahal $Bn embassy Cheney/Bush built there given the current circumstances is the right thing to do. Putting boots on the ground to go back into Falluja or Mosul is the kind of dumb thing you and your crowd of Warfare Queens would propose. President Obama says "no boots" on the ground and your crowd of idiots cannot tell the difference. Apparently Obama doesn't know exactly where the Green Zone is and Don is just as confused.
Already 650 special forces combat troops, who knows how many additional forces like pilots to fly all those Apache attack helicopters he's sending ….
US Sends Special Forces to Northern IraqTroops Setting Up Joint Operations Base in Kurdistan
by Jason Ditz, July 03, 2014
Though the majority of US ground troops in Iraq remain in and around Baghdad, a group of special forces has been sent northward into Kurdistan to set up a second “Joint Operations Center” in Irbil.
Setting up a center in Kurdistan is an odd choice, since the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is nearing secession from Iraq, and certainly wouldn’t allow Iraqi ground forces in for “joint” missions with the Americans.
It also goes against what US officials say is the primary focus of their “advisory” mission right now: assessing the Iraqi military. Officials say the troops in Baghdad are doing that, but the ones in Irbil are far away from any Iraqi military personnel.
And while officials continue to insist the troops won’t engage in combat, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey says that the war may “get to the point” where they start launching airstrikes against ISIS.
All signs point to the US “advisers” getting ready for direct combat operations in both Iraq and Kurdistan, with the Pentagon shipping Apache attack helicopters to Baghdad to “protect American interests” in the capital, and deploying combat troops to fly them.
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US Troops Will Fly Attack Helicopters in IraqPentagon Sending Apaches, More Attack Drones
by Jason Ditz, July 01, 2014
While continuing to insist they are trying to keep their involvement limited to “advisory” operations, the Pentagon continues to pour military equipment into Iraq, with US combat troops on the ground to carry out this new Iraq War.
Today, the Pentagon is rushing Apache attack helicopters to Baghdad, along with more Shadow drones, couching it as a move to prepare for a possible evacuation of the US Embassy.
Yet far from being focused on the embassy itself, officials say the US ground troops will be operating the helicopter gunships to “protect US interests” in and around Baghdad.
The US had already done multiple escalations centered on the notion they needed to prepare to evacuate the US Embassy, but at this point the deployments seem centered around laying the groundwork for a long-term US military operation in the nation. |
