{"id":65242,"date":"2016-04-13T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65242"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:17:46","slug":"obama-hidden-war-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65242","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s hidden war in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chief Tango sends us a link to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, where William McGurn reminds us that it was 45-years ago this month that John Kerry complained to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the troops who were giving their lives up so that the Nixon Administration didn’t have to own up to their mistakes in Vietnam;<\/p>\n

Today, as secretary of state, Mr. Kerry travels about the world rationalizing an Iraq policy designed to keep President Obama from having to admit his mistake: that he has only made worse a war he claimed to have ended….In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News, President Obama declared that his \u201cnumber one priority right now\u201d is defeating Islamic State. But how does the man who sees himself as the guy who gets America out of its wars deal with the contradiction?<\/p>\n

Part of the answer seems to be fudging the troop numbers. Officially U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan are capped at 3,870 and 9,800 respectively. But after a Marine in northern Iraq\u2014Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin\u2014was killed in an ISIS rocket attack, the Pentagon was forced to admit there are as many as 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Only then did Americans learn that men such as Staff Sgt. Cardin are not included in the official troop count because they were rotated in on a temporary basis. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Things won’t change with the next president, either. Obama has only changed the words we use;<\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton has her own version of the charade. \u201cI will not send American combat troops to Iraq or Syria,\u201d she has declared in more than one primary debate. Instead, she says, \u201cwe will continue to use Special Forces.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure Special Forces soldiers in Syria and Iraq will be surprised to learn that they’re not combat troops. I’m sure it would surprise Staff Sergeant Cardin, too. It appears that Obama and Kerry aren’t the only people in the Democrat Party who are pretending that there’s no war in Iraq. Or contingency operations or whatever word they’re using these days to hide the fact that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning President only makes wars worse while he’s pretending to end them. And America’s best and brightest are shedding their blood for weasel words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Wall Street Journal, where William McGurn reminds us …