{"id":54675,"date":"2014-08-21T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54675"},"modified":"2014-08-20T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:35:00","slug":"more-boots-on-the-ground-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54675","title":{"rendered":"More boots on the ground in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pinto Nag sends us a link from MSN<\/a> which announces that the President is considering sending more troops to Iraq;<\/p>\n

According to a senior U.S. official, the number of additional troops currently under discussion would be fewer than 300, but there has been no final decision yet by Pentagon leaders. Officials said that the forces, if approved, would mainly provide extra security around Baghdad.<\/p>\n

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Currently there are about 748 U.S. forces in Iraq, in addition to the approximately 100 troops that have routinely been assigned to the Office of Security Cooperation in Baghdad. Under the current war powers resolutions sent to Congress, Obama authorized up to 775 U.S. troops for security assistance, assessment teams, and advisers at two joint operations centers in Baghdad and Irbil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone else feel like a lobster sitting in increasingly warmer water? It seems to me that the President is using the murder of James Foley to take advantage of public sentiment against the terrorist scum. Of course, if he been serious about the war against these scum bags in the beginning, we might not be doing it now. He had thousands of US troops in Iraq when he took office but they were inconveniently patrolling the country in relative peace at the time. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to Reuters<\/a>, the ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State folks are planning to attack us here, somehow;<\/p>\n

They hinted that attacks on American interests or even U.S. soil were possible through sleeper cells in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe West are idiots and fools. They think we are waiting for them to give us visas to go and attack them or that we will attack with our beards or even Islamic outfits,” said one.<\/p>\n

“They think they can distinguish us these days \u2013 they are fools, and, more than that, they don\u2019t know we can play their game in intelligence. They infiltrated us with those who pretend to be Muslims and we have also penetrated them with those who look like them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I just peed myself a little out of unbridled excitement at the thought. But, I don’t get that lucky. <\/p>\n

I guess they’re saying that if we won’t fight them over there, they’ll come here. Funny how that works, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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