{"id":38269,"date":"2013-11-03T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38269"},"modified":"2013-11-03T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T13:18:38","slug":"back-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38269","title":{"rendered":"Back to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know a lot of you guys left something in Iraq and you need to go back to get it. Well, our Nobel Prize winning President is going to give you that opportunity. After meeting with Iraqi president Maliki on Friday, Obama pledged US military support for the Iraqi government, according to the Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Administration officials say that while they are not ready to send soldiers to Iraq, they will push for Congress to give Iraq the Apache helicopters, missiles and other equipment it is seeking, and will step up intelligence support so that they can help find and destroy the al-Qaida bases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, when you send equipment, you have to send people to train the Iraqi pilots, artillerymen, whatever. If we send trainers, we have to send people to protect them.<\/p>\n

From the LA Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The new U.S. plan represents a remarkable shift for Obama, whose administration trumpeted the 2011 withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq as a major achievement and has since shifted its attention to other regional challenges, such as Syria, Egypt and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n

Following a White House meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, Obama said he shared Maliki’s fears about militants’ growing foothold in Iraq’s western region and would join the Iraqi leader’s effort to crack down. Administration officials said this would include growing intelligence support and new weaponry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There wouldn’t be a need for a “crack down” if these two had done their jobs years ago. I’m pretty sure that I predicted we’d be back in Iraq when everyone else was celebrating the last troops to withdraw – just like I predicted in 1991 that we’d be back. There’s only one path to peace in that region and it’s called “total victory”, but the US seems unable to form those words on our collective lips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know a lot of you guys left something in Iraq and you need to go … Back to Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}