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BAGHDAD U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the possibility Wednesday that U.S. troops might be committed to ground operations in Iraq in extreme circumstances, the first hedging by an administration official on President Barack Obamas pledge that there will be no U.S. boots on the ground to battle the Islamic State.
Kerry made the comment during a news conference after a day of meeting with Iraqi officials, who he said hadnt requested or shown any desire to have U.S. troops or forces from any nation in Iraq to confront the Islamic State, the extremist organization thats now in control of more than a third of the countrys territory.
Kerry reiterated that Obama has said no U.S. combat troops would be deployed to fight the Islamic State in Iraq, before adding, Unless, obviously, something very, very dramatic changes.
That formulation hasnt been used previously by administration officials in discussing the growing U.S. confrontation with the Islamic State, and its sure to feed concerns that the United States may be making a greater commitment to a new conflict in the Middle East than it first intended.
The rest: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/09/10/239391_kerry-says-us-troops-might-deploy.html?rh=1
Seems legit. After all, what kind of dramatic changes could ever happen in a war zone?
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atreides1
(16,077 posts)I wonder when are they going to open it the rest of the way...and start sending in combat troops. While at the same time helping to increase Cheney's stock portfolio...wonder "fucking" ful!
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)with one finger to the wind of public response and the other finger poised to release more from the cache of propaganda for fearmongering and appeals to patriotism and party loyalty.
Autumn
(45,068 posts)through lest something dramatic happens in a war zone. amirite?
leftstreet
(36,107 posts)Pretty much
+1 to your post
KoKo
(84,711 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)this time?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Are they gearing up the "Support Our Troops" production yet? And, burial arrangements for said troops?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Never end the war.