This won’t be free, of course.\u00a0 So the Administration is asking for an additional $5+ billion to pay for their deployment.\u00a0 And a significant change to previous policy, our troops will now be allowed to operate at installations outside of Baghdad and Erbil, too.<\/p>\n
But don’t worry that we’re about to get involved in another war in Iraq – oh, no.\u00a0 These new troops will be “advisers, trainers and security personnel<\/span>“.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But according to the White House, they “won’t serve in a combat role<\/span>“.<\/p>\n Yeah, right.\u00a0 Does anyone really believe that last load of bullsh!t?\u00a0 Our “advisers” in Vietnam prior to July 1965 supposedly weren’t “serving in a combat role”, either.<\/p>\n Ya know, sometimes it seems to me like we should have negotiated an agreement to leave a few units in-place in Iraq in 2011 rather than pulling everything out helter-skelter.\u00a0 But I guess that just wasn’t possible.\u00a0 And besides, no one believed we ever might need to have forces on the ground there after the end of 2011 to guard against the possibility of future troubles – well, except for the SECDEF at the time and a former Ambassador to Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n Are your pants legs wet yet?\u00a0 Better check.\u00a0 And, for the record: it was pretty clear here yesterday.\u00a0 So if you’re leg’s wet, I don’t think that was rain – even if some folks keep telling you its been raining.<\/p>\n From Jonn; <\/strong>I wrote a post on the same subject before I saw Hondo’s post so I added it below rather than make two posts;<\/p>\n![\"last](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg\")
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