Posted on 09/04/2013 7:12:14 PM PDT by grundle
Full title: Revealed: Pentagon knew in 2012 that it would take 75,000 GROUND TROOPS to secure Syria's chemical weapons facilities
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2411885/Revealed-Pentagon-knew-2012-75-000-GROUND-TROOPS-secure-Syrias-chemical-weapons-facilities.html#ixzz2dyqQ94dl Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Securing Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and the facilities that produced them would likely require the U.S. to send more than 75,000 ground troops into the Middle Eastern country, MailOnline learned Wednesday.
That estimate comes from a secret memorandum the U.S. Department of Defense prepared for President Obama in early 2012.
U.S. Central Command arrived at the figure of 75,000 ground troops as part of a written series of military options for dealing with Bashar al-Assad more than 18 months ago, long before the U.S. confirmed internally that the Syrian dictator was using the weapons against rebel factions within his borders.
'The report exists, and it was prepared at the request of the National Security Advisor's staff,' a Department of Defense official with knowledge of the inquiry told MailOnline Wednesday on condition of anonymity.
'DoD spent lots of time and resources on it. Everyone understood that this wasn't a pointless exercise, and that eventually we would be tasked with going and getting the VX and sarin, so there was lots of due diligence.'
The logistical difficulties of bringing Syria's chemical warfare infrastructure under control stands in stark contrast with the text of a resolution passed Wednesday by a powerful Senate committee, and with assurances Secretary of State John Kerry has given committees in both houses of Congress.
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7500 or 75000.. doesn’t matter. It’s not a war because Boltneck and Baghdad Bob told us so.
HEAVENLY FATHER,
We ask in JESUS NAME that YOU intervene in the affairs of this Syrian conflict. YOUR will be done on earth as it is in heaven. AMEN.
Amen! We should be praying fervently that God stops this madness.
The Syrian War: What You’re Not Being Told
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkamZg68jpk#t=947
Obviously, this was planned in advance. Makes you wonder who really sprayed the sarin.
It’s a pretty safe bet that the Pentagon has regularly updated plans to take and hold every square inch of planet Earth.
True, but Obammy wanted an update just last year. They also promised no boots on the ground. Why would you do that when you knew by these very plans that there would have to be.
Because securing the Chem weapons was an objective proposed by 0. The 75000 troops are part of the course of action (COA) that would make that happen. If troops are a no-go because 0 blinks due to the political pressure or the presence of the Russians, the proposed objective would be considered unachievable and rejected for that reason.
Obama did not say he was going into Syria to secure chemical weapons. He said he was going to shoot missiles into Syria to teach Assad a lesson about crossing his red line. er..he didn’t say red line, uh...the world did. /sarc
In fact, Obama has not proposed any of this other stuff people are talking about. This is how he won’t take the blame if he lied and Americans died.
You don't know what 0 said back in 2012 or if securing the chem has been a possible COA for a number of years, so as always, what 0 says or doesn't say don't mean squat.
This is how he won’t take the blame if he lied and Americans died.
He'll take the blame in the here or the hereafter.
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