Posted on 11/13/2014 11:59:09 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The U.S. military is considering sending a limited number of American ground forces to fight alongside Iraqi troops as they launch complex missions to regain territory lost to Islamic State militants, the country’s top military officer said Thursday.
Thus far, American military personnel have been limited to serving as rear guard advisers to the Iraqi security forces and the Kurdish peshmerga. But Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said that could change as the campaign against the Islamic State becomes more difficult.
“As it evolves there are certain operations that could be more complex than the ones in which the Iraqi security forces are currently involved,” Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee. “There 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.”
Dempsey said he was not predicting that American troops would be required alongside Iraqi forces in such operations “but we’re certainly considering it.”
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No problem. They’ll just issue them sneakers.
If you like your “no boots on the ground” you can keep them.
So they can be turned on by these same Iraqi troops? We've already done this. I'd rather we fought the war ourselves. But, damn, I wish we had a real CIC.
I seem to recall the Iraqi gooberment didn’t want our boys there anymore, let em ask Putin for some Russian boys to kill instead.
Quagmire. (Or, “Vietnam II”).
Doesn’t Congress have to approve this? (Or did Congress give up war-making power, too?)
Finger wagged at Camera’ I want you to listen to me. I am going to say this again. There will not be American boots on the ground in Iraq!’
Oh and you can keep your doctor too. .
There's yet another twist: Under the 1973 War Powers Act, a president can wage war for up to 90 days without congressional approval.
What's your bitch? You sound like Bush is still in office! SARCASM!!!
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