NYT: U.S. to Send 1,500 More Troops to Iraq

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WASHINGTON — President Obama has authorized the deployment of an additional 1,500 American troops to Iraq in the coming months, the Defense Department said on Friday, a move that will double the number of those sent to advise and assist Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the battle against the Islamic State.

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In addition, the White House Budget Office said it would ask Congress for $5.6 billion for overseas contingency operations, including $1.6 billion to train and equip Iraqi troops.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/world/middleeast/us-to-send-1500-more-troops-to-iraq.html?_r=2

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Those who said we wouldn't escalate, please retract now.

Remember, we just had to cut 8.6 billion from starving children in this country just last February.

And some wonder why we lost the election... and what the agenda will be.... In a word, neo-con.

The war in the Middle East has been raging for 1400 years. We can't win.

The war is draining our treasury and a detriment to our troops.

Call your Rep's to get us out of this quagmire.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Bootless? Or, slightly elevated above the ground?

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2. Not sure, but their commander in cheif walks on water, Im told!

[skippy66]

3. USA. USA. we're #1. Go team!

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4. It's disgusting. I can see why people sat home.

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5. So many lies we are told...

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8. My guess is 20,000 before he's out of office.

[KoKo]

6. Cool...How many Campaign Promises have been broken, now?

I don't have time for "THE LIST."

I'll just put it out there. Someone else might have it Archived to post the betrayals of his Promises.

But...yes...I know. "He couldn't do "Anything" because the Repubs were after him from the Beginning because he was a "Muslim/Socialist who was born in Kenya...and we Hate Him because of the "Color of his Skin."

So.....Why did we elect him if he couldn't "DO ANYTHING" because the REPUBLICAN RACISTS would TRASH & BLOCK HIM?

He HAD A MANDATE..........Lost.

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7. He could have been a contender, instead he threw the fight for a fistfull of F you's from the powers

that be.

Saddest thing I've ever seen.

They laugh at him while he does their bidding.

[truedelphi]

9. The Republican politicians laugh at him.

But the heads of every Big Industry out there owe him big time, and the honorarium fees he receives once he puts this Oval Office behind him will make every penny that Bill and Hillary Clinton have received for their speechifying look like chump change.

His speeches will easily bring him some 500 million bucks or more.

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14. Nobody needs that much money.

[truedelphi]

16. No one needs this kind of money. But so fr, nobody out there is

Willing to r efuse the kinds of money they can make:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5785022

[woo me with science]

18. Superb, spot-on post at the link. Thank you.

Wake up, America. It's an oligarchy.

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24. $700,000 for 1 speech in Nigeria! What do people earn there... $300/mo.???

[nationalize the fed]

10. "The war is draining our treasury"

It's drained. Borrowing money to "train Iraqi troops", clusterbombing civilians, endless war here and there.

A nation of debt slaves, is what is left.

Didn't take that long either. The people that will complain the loudest haven't even been born yet.

In addition, the White House Budget Office said it would ask Congress for $5.6 billion for overseas contingency operations,

Few cared even a little when Victoria Nuland, the wife of PNAC founder Kagan, bragged about dropping $5 bil on Ukraine. Why start now?

It all could have been so much different. Ultimately, the blame goes to the people that allowed this to happen.

[grahamhgreen]

11. I blame them. We didn't vote for this crap!

[Autumn]

12. Endless war

That's the only priority the ones in charge seem to have

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13. And no one seems to care:(

[RiverLover]

15. Sure, wait until after midterms to blow more billion$ in another country. Thanks "liberal" prez!

I so agree we NEED that money here in the US.

[grahamhgreen]

19. Yes, exactly what he did.

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17. kick

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20. kick

[Union Scribe]

21. Any members of the fandom want to defend this? nt

[woo me with science]

22. +100000 Selective Third Way perception again.

It's almost as though the Third Wayers have some strange, selective visual disorder that makes it impossible for them to see these threads about the actual policies of corporate Democrats.

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25. They love the war! Well, sending others to war, anyway!

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23. War Hawks seem to enjoy sending troops into danger, yet are too chicken to defend the policy from

their keyboard.

Sad.

[scarystuffyo]

26. .

[JEB]

27. Americans love to kill.

Ask almost anybody in the world. Vietnam, Chile, Cuba, Iraq, Pakistan etc. etc. etc. etc. Our only solution to any problem. Well that and tax cuts for the obscenely rich and corporations. Hillary will ride the empire into the dirt if it lasts that long.

[scarystuffyo]

28. If there's wasn't oil there he wouldn't give a fuck

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30. That's for damn sure. And it looks like ISIS oil is fueling low gas

prices.

After months of bombing, I can't understand why they can still produce any oil at all!

[woo me with science]

29. kick