{"id":56432,"date":"2014-11-14T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56432"},"modified":"2014-11-13T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:08:33","slug":"us-considers-sending-combat-troops-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56432","title":{"rendered":"US considers sending combat troops to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday that the Pentagon is planning to send US troops to fight alongside Iraqi military forces, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/dempsey-us-considering-sending-ground-troops-to-help-iraqis-in-combat-operations-1.314096\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cAs [the campaign against the Islamic State] evolves there are certain operations that could be more complex than the ones in which the Iraqi security forces are currently involved,\u201d Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee. \u201cThere are some places along the path that I think will be fairly complex terrain for them, including, for example, Mosul. And eventually as they need to restore the border between Iraq and Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey said he was not predicting that American troops would be required alongside Iraqi forces in such operations \u201cbut we\u2019re certainly considering it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In any event, Dempsey said the number of U.S. combat troops fighting with the Iraqis would be relatively small.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course this would have been huge news leading every cable show six or seven years ago. But not now, for some reason. Probably because Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is still toeing the party line (or lie);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite Dempsey\u2019s comments, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, appearing at the same hearing, repeated the Administration\u2019s position that \u201cU.S. military personnel will not be engaged in a ground combat mission.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, whichever way you want it, the Obama Administration has you covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday &hellip; <a title=\"US considers sending combat troops to Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56432\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US considers sending combat troops to Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56432","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=56432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}