Posted on 04/13/2015 8:42:58 PM PDT by naturalman1975
MORE than 300 Australian troops will be deployed to Iraq for a training mission, starting tomorrow.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the 300 strong force, first announced last month, will be largely from army’s 7th Brigade in Brisbane and will serve alongside New Zealanders at the Taji military complex, north of Baghdad
Federal cabinet has approved the deployment of the additional Australian troops to the Middle East to help train Iraqi forces in their fight against Islamic State.
The deployment will be for two years from the middle of May.
“It is a dangerous place and I can’t tell you that this is risk-free,” Mr Abbott told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
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Once that government troops are fighting anyone that joins the other side should be punished as a traitor. If they're not the war isn't worth fighting and the troops should leave.
TWO YEARS is terrible. Gives me a headache just thinkin about it
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