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| Ex-CIA director predicts 5,000 US personnel on ground by December |
| 2014-09-16 |
| [The Hill] Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Sunday said he predicts there could be nearly 5,000 U.S. personnel on the ground overseas by the end of the year to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “In terms of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, logistics, advice, command and control assistance, tactical air control parties, look I’m betting we’re up close 5,000 by the end of the year,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” Not to detract from General Hayden's estimate or the legitimacy of the mission, but has anyone here noticed the lack of discussion by the regime on the U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) issue in Iraq ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 USJCS Chair General Dempsey repor will ask for the deployment of US ground troops as contingency iff airpower fails to stop or defeat ISIS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-09-16 20:23 |
| #6 What g(r)omgoru says. However, missions have a way of "creeping." We may get back to 50,000. Noticed there were leftist protesters in Congressional hearings today. The Democratic Party is protesting itself? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-16 18:28 |
| #5 as long as none of them show up in NYTimes pictures before Nov 2014 |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-09-16 16:12 |
| #4 CIA says one thing. Kerry says another. White House contradicts both and disagrees with the anything the military generals recommends. This nations leadership is in total disarray. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-09-16 12:54 |
| #3 50000 would've worked. 5000 is asking for troubles. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-16 11:04 |
| #2 Ex-CIA director predicts 5,000 US personnel on ground by December... by which time the troops will be have new footwear. No boots on the ground! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-16 11:00 |
| #1 It's the old 'when you're up to your ass in alligators..' situation which means the Iraqis are a bit too busy to screw with garrison troops in peacetime. That makes the SOFA less pressing, just like when Americans were preoccupied with killing AQ and the previous Sunni insurgency in country and the 'government' hide behind a double ban of security manned by those same Americans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-16 08:26 |
