Posted on 09/02/2014 6:07:29 PM PDT by John W
President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of another 350 American service-members to Baghdad Tuesday evening, the White House announced, bringing the number of American troops deployed to Iraq since June to over 1,000.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement that the 350 U.S. troops are tasked with protecting American diplomatic facilities and personnel in Baghdad, which has been under threat from the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Dems invented mission creep. Remember Vietnam?
Hmmm, we only need 25 more Americans to be beheaded before there are 10,000 boots on the ground.
Yep.
Funny what can happen when you don’t need to win an election.
Nobody cares what just one side of the confrontation wants. If ISIS decides to show up, those "additional forces" will have a simple choice: to take guns and serve in a combat role, or to be killed on the spot.
If it wasn’t for his complete hatred of the military ISIS would never exist. Maybe the Marxists can understand who Bush was fighting and they were rooting for.
Pray America wakes up
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