{"id":52365,"date":"2014-06-27T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52365"},"modified":"2014-06-26T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T23:03:41","slug":"us-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52365","title":{"rendered":"US in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that another team of US advisors have arrived in Iraq. Apparently there will be a “north” and a “south” command centers and these folks are establish the “south” command center.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re really going to focus on \u2026 assessing the capabilities of the Iraqi army units in and around Baghdad,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s their initial mission. What do we mean by capabilities? Everything from the status of their equipment to the training and readiness levels of their personnel \u2014 even their morale.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The really good news is that they’re carrying their personal weapons. Some of you older guys may remember when advisers were famously sent to El Salvador in an advisory role and were only allowed to carry sidearms. So, I’m hoping when the Pentagon says “personal weapons” they mean long guns.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, our friend Donald Douglas at American Power Blog<\/a> sends us a link to a story about al-Maliki who blames the Obama Administration for the successes of ISIS against his troops because they moved too slowly delivering the jets that Iraq bought a few months back. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract,\u201d Maliki told the British broadcaster in his first interview with an international news organization since the insurgents seized Mosul, Iraq\u2019s second-largest city, earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should have sought to buy other jet fighters like British, French and Russian, to secure the air cover for our forces,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we had air cover, we would have averted what had happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’ll give it to Maliki that this administration is slow, but I think ISIS wouldn’t have been so successful if Maliki wasn’t such a jerk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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