Obama Authorizes Sending Additional Troops To Iraq

[jakeXT]

Source: The Huffington Post

President Barack Obama has authorized a State Department request for additional troops in Iraq.

Obama ordered 350 additional military personnel be sent to Iraq "to protect our diplomatic facilities and personnel in Baghdad," according to a Tuesday statement by Press Secretary Josh Earnest. The statement notes that the troops will not be serving in a combat role upon arrival.

The authorization, according to the statement, will allow for some military personnel to leave Iraq, while reenforcing security for U.S. personnel and facilities there.

"This action was taken at the recommendation of the Department of Defense after an extensive interagency review, and is part of the President's commitment to protect our personnel and facilities in Iraq as we continue to support the Government of Iraq in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," the statement reads.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/obama-iraq-troops_n_5756234.html

[SummerSnow]

1. The statement notes that the troops will not be serving in a combat role upon arrival.

Then why are they there if not to fight ISIS. If ISIS attacks the U.S. personnel there the additional troops will be forced to fight. Can all the U.S. personnel just come home?

[edgineered]

2. the troops will not be serving in a combat role upon arrival, they will need to check in first. nt

[candelista]

10. +1.

[Bragi]

4. Protecting in-country personnel can be a fine pretext for war

This looks much like how most US wars start out. Send in a few advisers, then more, then more again, then you have to fight the enemy, so you send in more to protect the fighting personnel there. Eventually, war is declared. Rinse, repeat.

[mwrguy]

12. No combat until you are done with NMPS

[EEO]

3. Drip, drip, drip...

[Protalker]

5. The optics like 9/11 are horrendous.

The idea that a Brit is doing the beheading underlines how easy infiltration would be for these barbarians. It hits us where we live. EVIL

[totodeinhere]

6. Slippery slope here we come. n/t

[santroy79]

7. you know Im anti war & wanted of of iraq

but these people need put in their place. They are animals. And they would kill every American if they could

[AKing]

8. You echo my feelongs exactly

[candelista]

11. They are bad guys. Their execution videos prove it.

But however bad they are, the US would make things worse, with its enormous firepower.

[grahamhgreen]

15. We started it. We are the cause.

[Javaman]

20. +1 nt

[Doctor_J]

9. rallying the democratic base for Nov

[Vine Gatherer]

13. What Could Possibly Go Wrong???

[grahamhgreen]

18. Super-ISIS?

[candelista]

14. This brings the official number of US troops in Iraq to 820.

And counting.

Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said the new detachment would increase the total number of U.S. troops “augmenting diplomatic security in Iraq” to about 820.

It won't be long before there are over 1000.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/obama-troops-iraq-isil-110537.html#ixzz3CEJFKyER

[grahamhgreen]

16. It's over 1000, according to CNN

[grahamhgreen]

17. Exactly the opposite of what we voted for.

[Nihil]

19. Gosh ... a world leader sending his armed forces into a foreign sovereign nation ...

... in order to protect their ally & the previous wave of insurgents ^H^H^H^H^H^ "citizens"?

Whatever next?