There will be troops in Iraq and Syria.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

Make no mistake about it. I've watched the so-called "news" long enough to know the game.

There WILL be multiple battalions of U.S. soldiers joining the special forces already there. The difference this time is that they will be added slowly, rather than as a massive invasion force.

I don't see our Arab allies putting their armies on the ground, so we'll have to do it because missile strikes will only scatter survivors to regroup somewhere else in whack-a-mole fashion.

The U.S. media is the interface between TPTB and the public and serve as the sales vehicle. Right now the Pentagon is doing their victory dance on the TV machines in order to elicit rah, rah, rahs from the proletariat. And, every utterance by every reporter includes the "boots on the ground" sound bite.

It's going to happen.

[leftstreet]

1. Finally. The Obama Administration's Jobs Plan n/t

[cali]

2. Mission creep is more likely than not

Do I think that this is what President Obama wants? No, but the forces pressuring for ground troops are not insignificant.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

4. Absolutely. The thing about a mechanized engagement with an enemy is that

someone has to make the machines of war. And when war machines are made, some people get rich.

Those war machine makers apparently have blown through their profits from the past decade and are obviously in need of another cash flow channel.

[tridim]

3. Bush is no longer the President.

But thanks for the psychic prediction of doom.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. Bookmarked for an itoldyouso later. nt

[tridim]

9. I'm not going to bookmark, but I look forward to our...

"Now do you finally believe Obama is not Bush?" follow up convo.

Most of us figured that out about 7 years ago.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

11. I have never once said that Obama is bush. Not once. I am, for your information,

an Obama supporter. And nowhere in my OP do you see anything close to me saying Obama is bush.

Those are YOUR words, not mine.

[zappaman]

13. You better believe it! n/t

[ChisolmTrailDem]

14. You better believe I'm still here despite your efforts to mark me as a zombie. Haha!

Keep up your bullshit, zappaman.

It's all you have.

[zappaman]

15. Huh?

[DustyJoe]

6. on a positive note

The military might have to ask all the police departments and school systems for all the MRAP vehicles back.

[still_one]

7. As long as Obsma is president US combat troops will not be on the ground. Most of the dire

Predictions regarding what Obama was going to do on DU from those who disagreed never came true

[LordGlenconner]

8. Can you get me the winning power ball numbers?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. That's a stupid question. Is the media building up the case for lottery numbers?

Is the media trumpeting the need for a certain set of numbers to win the lottery?

The simple fact of the matter is that the U.S. media is working the exact sames drums-of-war, boots-on-the-ground program they used to gin up public support and prepare the public for ground action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We've seen this before. We're seeing it again.

[LordGlenconner]

12. Yes

And we've heard it all before, too.

[m-lekktor]

16. well, the generals who want troops there claim that airstrikes alone

are not precise enough and too many civilians get killed in the process so troops will be needed to be more precise and less sloppy. i just left an article where this was mentioned i can't remember which one, it was about generals contradicting Obama's "no boots on the ground" and advocating for troops over there.