{"id":54528,"date":"2014-08-13T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54528"},"modified":"2014-08-13T07:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:18:59","slug":"100-more-troops-headed-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54528","title":{"rendered":"100 more troops headed to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember early in this Iraq thing, we were told 100 troops were going to Iraq to work out how we&#8217;re not planning to put boots on the ground. Before that first week was out, that number had grown to 300 (that&#8217;s 600 boots on the ground the first week, not including spare boots that they took with them). Now CNN reports that a 100 more are deploying to Iraq (that&#8217;s 800 boots on the ground for those of you keeping track at home);<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>More than 100 additional U.S. military advisers are being sent to Iraq to look at relief options for displaced Yazidis, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnbrk\/statuses\/499306824831881216\">August 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People are looking at ways to do something more than just drop water and supplies,&#8221; a senior U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal. &#8220;You can only do that for so long.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even Democrats are concerned about the way Americans aren&#8217;t being told anything about the size and scope of the operation according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/report-u-send-100-more-military-advisers-help-215154839.html\">the Wire<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) voiced concern over the administration&#8217;s efforts in Iraq, citing the need for Congress&#8217; involvement with any additional action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support providing humanitarian relief to Iraqi civilians and measures to protect American personnel, but I am concerned about the timeline and scope of our renewed military efforts in Iraq,&#8221; he said on Tuesday. &#8220;No one doubts the barbarity of IS and threat it poses to our partners and I will always support the President if he takes action to protect American servicemembers and diplomats.  But the mission and objectives of any military action must be made clear to Congress, the American people, and our men and women in uniform.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, I don&#8217;t think anyone in the pentagon or the White House knows what they&#8217;re doing, that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re not being told anything. The blind leading the sightless. The Biden leading the Hagel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember early in this Iraq thing, we were told 100 troops were going to Iraq &hellip; <a title=\"100 more troops headed to Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54528\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100 more troops headed 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-54528","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\/54528","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=54528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}