Posted on 06/16/2014 3:43:59 PM PDT by kristinn
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 16, 2014
Statement by the Press Secretary on the War Powers Resolution Report for Iraq
Today, consistent with the War Powers Resolution, the President transmitted a report notifying the Congress that up to approximately 275 U.S. military personnel are deploying to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. The personnel will provide assistance to the Department of State in connection with the temporary relocation of some staff from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to the U.S. Consulates General in Basra and Erbil and to the Iraq Support Unit in Amman. These U.S. military personnel are entering Iraq with the consent of the Government of Iraq. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad remains open, and a substantial majority of the U.S. Embassy presence in Iraq will remain in place and the embassy will be fully equipped to carry out its national security mission.
A day late and a dollar short ...
He’s trying to do the opposite of what he did in Benghazi...except their was no “army” invading Benghazi...just a bunch of guys who had watched a video.
Couldn’t this same order be issued in support of the Embassy in Tripoli/Benghazi?
By not reaching any SOFA agreement with Maliki, and then by largely remaining diplomatically silent as Maliki began to make of himself another Saddam, this time giving governmental preference to the Shia majority over the Sunni minority, Obama gave all the right signals for Maliki to radicalized Sunni opposition to him and for those radicals to see Malaki and the government in Baghdad would not get much assistance from the U.S.
The two big beneficiaries of Obama’s Iraq policy have been Sunni radicals leading the charge for all Iraqi Sunnis fed up with Maliki and Iran, whom Maliki has increasingly been under the sway of.
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