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2014-09-16 Iraq

Ex-CIA director predicts 5,000 US personnel on ground by December

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-16 03:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#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|| 2014-09-16 08:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-16 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 50000 would've worked. 5000 is asking for troubles.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-16 11:04|| 2014-09-16 11:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-16 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 as long as none of them show up in NYTimes pictures before Nov 2014

Posted by lord garth 2014-09-16 16:12|| 2014-09-16 16:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-16 18:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-09-16 20:23|| Front Page Top

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