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2014-09-17 Iraq

U.S. Says 'Combat Advisers' May Battle IS in Iraq, Strikes to Target 'Safe Havens' in Syria

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 The lead units will have a campaign patch that says "Nobel Peace Prize Representative".
You may already be a winner!

Posted by ed in texas 2014-09-17 07:50|| 2014-09-17 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 MACV-SOG rerun anyone?

Posted by OldSpook 2014-09-17 08:38|| 2014-09-17 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 MACV-SOG rerun anyone?
Posted by: OldSpook

'Rurun' possibly, but I suspect the ISIS cash bounties for captured American servicemen are much higher than what the Vietcong or NVA might have offered. I hope and pray we don't one day soon, find out.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-17 09:41|| 2014-09-17 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 So if we won't have 'boots on the ground' fighting, then our combat 'advisors' will be wearing sneakers or sandals?

Posted by Glenmore 2014-09-17 10:21|| 2014-09-17 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 US should say we are sending a ton of unarmed advisors and otherwise easily killable Americans to the city of Fallujia and then bomb the Holy crap out of the place when the mob of Jihadi' show up.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-09-17 14:41|| 2014-09-17 14:41|| Front Page Top

#6 CIA should also let slip (by way of Snowden if possible) that there was an ISIS/Muslim brotherhood/Iran plan to spread Ebola at Mecca that was stopped by Israel.

That would make some brains pop.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-09-17 14:43|| 2014-09-17 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 So if we won't have 'boots on the ground' fighting, then our combat 'advisors' will be wearing sneakers or sandals?

golf shoes

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-17 15:57|| 2014-09-17 15:57|| Front Page Top

#8 I suspect Boots on the Ground will occur the second Wednesday in November.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-09-17 23:15|| 2014-09-17 23:15|| Front Page Top

#9 "SOG" > sniff, sniff.

OTOH, as per CNN AM looks like theres a possible disturbance in the Force between POTUS Bammer + JSoC Chair Gen. Martin Dempsey, USA as the Bammer made it absolutely positively categorically undeniably .... clear that the US will N-O-T be waging ground war in Iraq andor Syria - PERIOD!

AKA "BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT ...".

More from GEN. DEMPSEY via the Net ... ...

* TOPIX > [WaPo] DEMPSEY: ONE-HALF OF IRAQI ARMY NOT OK AS US PARTNERS.

Wid the remaining one-half in need of re-org, retraining, + reequipping to be of value to the US or the new Anti-ISIS Coalition.

Dempsey's statement is roughly consistent wid those in Congress whom argue that the US needs to dev a "ENTIRELY NEW ARMY/FIGHTING FORCE" to either rid of Baby Assad, OR to defeat the ISIS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-17 23:16|| 2014-09-17 23:16|| Front Page Top

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