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More Troops Likely Going to Iraq
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08/20/2014 08:06 AM
08/20/2014 08:06 AM
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After murdering an American journalist and threatening to murder another one, the military is considering sending more ground troops to Iraq . U.S. officials say military planners are weighing the possibility of sending more American forces to Iraq mainly to provide additional security around Baghdad.
A senior U.S. official says the number of troops currently under discussion would be fewer than 300, but there has been no final decision yet by Pentagon leaders.
The talks come as American fighter jets and drones conducted nearly a dozen airstrikes in Iraq since Tuesday when Islamic State militants threatened to kill a second American captive in retribution for any continued attacks.
A U.S. official says the strikes came in the hours after militants released a gruesome video Tuesday showing U.S. journalist James Foley being beheaded. Well, at least it didn't interrupt president Obama's vacation. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: More Troops Likely Going to Iraq
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08/20/2014 11:32 AM
08/20/2014 11:32 AM
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I still think this should be handled by an extended campaign of some of the oldest planes in the USAF inventory...
B-52s
A-10s
AC-130s
Then let the Kurds do cleanup!
"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one."
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Re: More Troops Likely Going to Iraq
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08/20/2014 02:30 PM
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I'm with you Husker. We need to bomb their asses morning noon and night, until there isn't a square meter that doesn't have a crater in it.
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Re: More Troops Likely Going to Iraq
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08/21/2014 02:48 PM
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300 troops vs ISIS? What's that shit supposed to be? Like Gordon of Khartoum?
Heck, that's some straight up old school hero shit, leaving 300 conventional troops to hang out for the ISIS final assault while the Air Force and Navy throw ordinance all around like it is the battle of Khe Sanh.
Something tells me that GWB would almost be not so difficult to talk into going in on that one personally. Regardless of what gets said about him, he is a class act on that sort of thing.
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