{"id":65573,"date":"2016-05-04T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65573"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:56:19","slug":"no-boots-on-the-ground-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65573","title":{"rendered":"No “Boots on the Ground”, Mr. President? Yeah. Right."},"content":{"rendered":"

As Jonn noted yesterday, we’ve lost another one in Iraq<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 This brings to 3 the number of US troops lost during combat operations against Daesh.<\/p>\n

The SEAL (initial reports were that he was a soldier) who was KIA was acting as an advisor to Kurdish Peshmerga at the time.\u00a0 He was killed by direct fire in an engagement that occurred after Daesh forces penetrated Pesmerga lines.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t worry.\u00a0 The POTUS has repeatedly told us we won\u2019t have any \u201cboots on the ground\u201d or \u201ccombat troops\u201d \u00a0in Iraq<\/a><\/em> or Syria<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, right.\u00a0 Being killed while serving as an advisor to Peshmerga ground forces certainly sounds like “boots on the ground” to me.\u00a0 And getting killed by direct-fire during a ground engagement also sounds one helluva lot like ground combat, too.<\/p>\n

But rest assured – those aren’t “combat troops”.\u00a0 And we don’t have “boots on the ground” there.<\/p>\n

But what do you expect?\u00a0 This is the same POTUS that told everyone they could keep their doctor under ObamaCare<\/a><\/em>, too.\u00a0 How\u2019s that worked out for everyone?<\/p>\n

Yeah, you’re right – your leg’s wet.\u00a0 And it’s not raining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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