I hate to be the frog who pisses in the punch bowl but Military advisors are soldiers...
EEO (152 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251367822
You can call them military advisers, but they are simply U.S. soldiers being sent back to Iraq.
The Obama Administration has decided to redeploy American troops to Iraq, and those who think otherwise and want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt are fooling themselves. This is a dangerous decision and one that threatens to pull us back into Iraq.
EEO (152 posts)
2. Reason, for one.
They are Special Forces soldiers.
They are being sent to Iraq after U.S. soldiers have been pulled out.
Thus, U.S. soldiers are being sent back (or redeployed) into Iraq to provide military aid.
I'd love to hear your interpretation of the facts outside of "who says?"
wandy (2,993 posts)
5. Or they could be there to protect the GOP white elephent...........
OK, this is as convoluted as all heck but I'll try to explain......
The Iraq government hasn't been working all too very well and now they have terrorists/freedom fighters/people with different religious beliefs (I guess it depends on you're view point) running a muck.
Now the last time Iraq was running a muck the GOP decided (for reasons unknown to god or man) to build this ungodly expensive white elephant of an embassy smack dab in the middle of a war zone. If/when this embassy comes under attack we must have sufficient resources to to prevent another Benghazi!
Our enemy is ever looking for ways to do us harm.
I'm not thinking of ISIS here.
Our own government hasn't been working all too very, at least since the surge of Tepublican obstruction began.
No matter what decisions are made about Iraq, no matter how many lives are lost, no matter what damage it does here at home, the GOP will only see an opportunity for political gain.
Our enemy is ever looking for ways to do us harm. We must prevent another Benghazi!
Is this the Nadin's sock puppet?
Chan790 (16,581 posts)
24. Train?
Training is a euphemism...they're almost certainly there as force reconnaissance.
Keep in mind, there's only about 3000 ISIS fighters, most of whom are not professional soldiers and have never received any form of training...if we identify and mark the house where the senior leaders are having a meeting, while they are having a meeting...it'll be the first and last airstrike of the campaign. We blow it up, Shiite forces examine the wreckage and recover/ID the remains. We'll apologize after the fact, Iran will denounce us (puppet-show. Don't think they're not in on it.), the Saudis will never be able to prove we plotted against their personal insurrection.
Militia tend to scatter and return to their civilian lives when the head is cut off. Better for everybody than a long bloody insurrection.
Jackie here has been watching too many movies. ISIS has had three years of fighting to 'train' how to be soldiers. The Iraqi Army hasn't and is still hobbled by the same weaknesses it had when we left in 2009.
bpj62 (381 posts)
27. correct
This is intel gathering plain and simple. We need to know who the leaders are and if need be we will take them out. no one and I mean no one wants to see images of the US Embassy in Bagdad being taken over or fired upon. Bush broke Iraq and now we have to pay the cashier. it doesn't help that Al- Maliki has done nothing to stop this uprising at all.
In 2008 Iraq was a growing vibrant country. In 2009... Barry happened to win. He pulled out of Iraq leaving it a shambles yet the leftists still blame Bush.
