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"Boots On The Ground"? Obama To Seek Authorization For Military Force Against ISIS
Having unveiled his non-boots-on-the-ground strategy in September, President Obama's "promise" was quickly proved fragile when General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the strength of ISIS relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would recommend abandoning Obama’s oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground troops to combat in Iraq. It seems another promise is about to be broken as Bloomberg reports Senator John Cornyn said President Obama told congressional leaders during meeting today at White House he would seek authorization for military force on Islamic State. Boehner’s office, in separate statement after meeting, said Republicans would work with him to build support.
As Bloomberg reports, Obama to Seek Authorization for Military Force
President Obama told congressional leaders during meeting today at White House he would seek authorization for actions on Islamic State, Republican Sen. John Cornyn tells reporters.
No details on timing or substance
Cornyn, fellow Republican Sen. John Thune say Obama’s intention is good development, may help smooth way for confirmation of Ashton Carter as next defense secretary
House Speaker John Boehner, other Republicans have been pressing Obama to seek authorization
Boehner’s office, in separate statement after meeting, said he encouraged Obama to send Congress the authorization and said Republicans would work with him to build support
So what can we expect? (as we noted previously)...
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the strength of Isis relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would recommend abandoning Obama’s oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground troops to combat in Iraq.
Retaking the critical city of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest, and re-establishing the border between Iraq and Syria that Isis has erased “will be fairly complex terrain” for the Iraqi security forces that the US is once again supporting.
“I’m not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but we’re certainly considering it,” Dempsey said.
Iraq will need about 80,000 effective military troops to retake the terrain it lost to Islamic State militants and restore its border with Syria, the top U.S. general said on Thursday.
"We're going to need about 80,000 competent Iraqi security forces to recapture territory lost, and eventually the city of Mosul, to restore the border," Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, told a congressional hearing.
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It appears some folks are going to be putting their boots on the ground...
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Have you noticed there's a boot on your neck?
Well that is one way to solve the unemployment problem amongst the young people.
Yep, depopulation USSA style.
I am confused..
Why doth the Supreme Nobel Emperor need trifle with the little men in congress?
"Have you noticed there's a boot on your neck?"
That's not a boot...That's Sport Utility Footwear!
"...President Obama told congressional leaders during meeting today at White House he would seek authorization for actions on Islamic State, Republican Sen. John Cornyn tells reporters. ..."
Notice that it does not say actions against ISIS.
He is probably setting-up supply depots for ISIS so that there are no more embarrassing photos parachute drops of supplies to ISIS.
War without end.........
Where are the anti-war rallies? I guess as long as the Obama-bots get their free shit, they don't care.
The Nobel Pizza Prize winner takes us to the Theater of the Absurd, in Bizarro Land.
Impeach Him!
Sadly, can you say President Biden?
This is like looking for a leak in an LNG plant with a candle.
Tail chased with out dog.
What happens when Russia sells Syria advanced weapons ? Does the 1st tactical Nuke go off in Syria vice Ukraine ?
Russia will have to loan them some volunteers to run the weapons since an AK-47 is cuttung edge to most of the population....
You're either with us, or against us. Except when you're both with and against us.
You'd think that after so many clusterfucks, the incompetent clowns would get a fucking clue, but I guess that would mean that they weren't as incompetent as they are.
If chaos and destabilization are the plan(and isn't it always?), they're hardly 'incompetent'.
The problem with chaos is that it isn't very controllable. IMO, ISIS is a dog that we injected with rabies, and now we're shocked that it is turning on us.
Ofc they plan and account for this type of 'collateral damage'. When you hear talk of the 'costs of war' this is really what they mean. (We sacrificed some folks, etc)
Look at how many security measures are taken for western leaders these days, to the point of them avoiding important international mettings - they definitely aren't 'shocked' when this stuff happens. It's probably the one topic they are 'thoughtful' on.
From an above comment.
"Tail chased with out dog"
"In any war, there are the outward pointing guns, but there must necessarily be inward pointing guns keeping the populace in line and funding the state... Fighting men are fools to think they have more in common with their commanders than they do the enemy combatants, who are simply livestock to be milked, worked, or slaughtered at the whim of sociopaths in government"
There arn't enough expletives in the english language to express my opposition to this BS...Suit up Obama, you dickhead...Boehner you too...get on the front line A-holes.
We'll consider you two to be a sufficient fighting force.
What's wrong? Do you expect us to wait for that there Condy Rice's mushroom cloud ?
Lets drag Colin Powell in front of the UN; I'll believe him.
Sign up for your 2 free years of community college at the nearest recruitment centre.
CIA building CCs near Syrian border for those who want to expand horizons and "study" abroad.
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right, is of no consequence.
Reminisce of the good old days when the boot was merely in your ass.
"Have you noticed there's a boot on your neck?"
Eric Garner, James Boyd, and Kelly Thomas sure did.
The banksters need to repay us.
I noticed, I'm trying hard to ignore it but that's becoming more and more difficult. It's mostly the golf cleats in the boot that are bothering me.
Obama will push for it and get it, but he'll get off the hook by Dems, who will instead vilify Republitards because they went along with it. And somehow, all of this will be Bush's fault.
Meanwhile, the American public will lose more freedoms.
"Boots on the ground."
Finally, a good idea.
/s
Cakewalk 2.0.
That's my thinking, they'll be greeting us with flowers.
And smiles, and cleavage. Lots of cleavage.
It should pay for itself too!
If there is lots of cleavage, then yes, it will. They'll be able to make $87/hr with just a laptop, and we can install an IRS office there to skim, er, um, collect taxes from the income!
Hpoie and Changie's Shock and Awe
What? Enrolling ISIS in Obamacare and giving them an IRS office? I don't know about the awe, but judging by the reaction of Americans, they'd sure as hell be shocked.
Something like...
All be over by Christmas.
Which one, is always missed out.
But, how many times are we going to put boots on the ground? How many years and lives did we spend in Iraq? And, this is what we ended up with. A situation worse than we had before. A situation frankly that we created. So, tell me again why we don't just let those people over there figure out where they want their own fucking borders? Feels like we're going backwards. Unless the goal is to waste our country's lives and treasure continuing to redraw other people's borders, forever. Rather than spend that money improving the situation right here at home. I guess the US will just continue to be the world's largest rent-a-cop. Probably need to get some new business cards to more accurately reflect our preoccupation.
We have always been at war (and always WILL be at war) with Eastasia, Oceania, SOMEBODY....
TPTB NEED 'enemies' - war is their most profitable endeavor.
So Amerika wants yet another war?
I will have to find my yellow ribbons. Can't wait for the 4th of July.
pods
change u can believe in...
was there any doubt this was coming on all the good news...
http://www.livecharts.co.uk/MarketCharts/silver.php
This will be a rout. The US knows all the weapons ISIS is using as well as supply routes. For the other weapons (scorpion bombs), the Army can issue special boots.
Well so far, the non-boots on the ground 'fighting' has been shown to be theatre, so ...
in actuality this is all still theatre, just now with extra cast.
OK, so its a route, and we pack up and leave. There will still be a power vacuum just begging to be filled by the next bloodthirsty would be dictator.
Break out your popcorn and American flags, moron
Like the Vietnam rout? We knew where all the enemy bases were, supply routes, infiltration points...
The point is to drive ISIS out of Iraq and back into doing the job they were created for - destroying Syria.
WTF guys!? I cant take the pi$$? ZH used to be able to spot sarc without the cheezball "/sarc" flag. Its low rent around here now.
Sorry, Frankie. My bad...I must be a little slow today.
We deployed some folks
Groan, Obomber trying to start YET ANOTHER war.
He sure is a Prize Prix
One peace prize wasn't enough.
Was he playing golf with Cheney?
Smart enough not to go out bird hunting with him at least................
Capital and resource mal-investment and mis-allocation on a massive never-before-seen scale (much like the FRAUD).
I find this truly disturbing considering that the CIA trained ISIS/ISIL to begin with and all the media outlets going on an on about how we are "swimming in oil" and "there is no inflation".
Everything is awesome!
hedge accordingly.
BOHICA
So we're going to (now openly)...fight ourselves? KEWL!
Good thing none of those boots on the ground even know why they're going to Syria. Maybe they'll make a Call Of Duty: ISIS so the youngins can get some practice in first.
The Military Industrial Complex must be fed!
More fodder into the cannon!
OK, but this time, instead of arming the Iraqis and sending them in against ISIS, let's just transfer the weapons to ISIS directly. This will save the Iraqis the embarrassment of dropping their weapons, undressing on the battlefield and running away.
$ 100.00 oil in 4 3 2 1
During his campaign: "I'm going to bring the boys home". During his term in office? Apparently, we misunderstood the meaning of the word "home". It's our fault. What to do? Well, the sheeple re-elected him after he broke his promises, so I guess he has the full support of the US sheeple on this. Nobody protests, nobody complains. I guess most of the population will be outside to watch and cheer on the silo launches. Bring your popcorn.
Look up the legal concept of adverse possession. If you reside on a property and take care of it long enough, under the right circumstances, it becomes yours. Well, it seems as though we are just asserting adverse possession over Iraq because we were there for so long and dumped a fuckton of FRNs into it, and it turns out that it is now home for our soldiers!
FUUUUUUUUUUUU! This is insanity!
Obama delivers the long awaited bailout of the coffin and bodybag industry.
PHUCK AGAIN!! We are going into that hell hole. UGH!
If at first you don't succeed, try try again! Iraq 3.0 is now in the making, and we're going to shoot some folks!
Wait, what is the definition of insanity according to Einstein?
-Ernest Hemingway
Couldn't vote you +1, maybe because italics?
Shift-Tab-Enter
I guess the blockquote thingy automatically puts it in italics, or maybe I'm just an idiot. Either way the edit time has expired
I told you- they will make this year more interesting than 2014
World and USA are falling apart
"Onward christian soldiers........."
More like Hava Nagila bitches!
ISIS
Integrated Systems Improvement Services INC
"boots on the ground" vs. This ISIS?
Ah, the embarrassing perils of MIC acronymic newspeak.
Where's the guy who exclaims: 'Bullish!!'...?
Nobel "genocide is peace" prize
i honestly weep for the armed forces that gave their lives to stabilize iraq, only to have to do it all over again. not only was this disaster from premature pullout completely predictable, it was indeed predicted. and all so the unicorn prince could have some feel-good domestic talking points.
Please enlighten me as to how the fuck we ever "stabilized" anything in Iraq.
Thanks,
Thinking People Everywhere
Volunteer for a kill or be killed job and don't be surprised on either option. Go to a library or use the www. and find out the truth behind wars.
Another curve ball for you, we DEstablilized Iraq, that why when we "left" (script soldiers left, the mercs stayed) it was open season.
Your comment reminds me of this picture. Wish I could post inline.
http://wil-woods.deviantart.com/art/Deathstar-Reflections-118364126
You enjoy myself: ...."not only was this disaster from premature pullout completely predictable...."
Some whores are just so dirty you just don't phuck 'em in the first place. The guy on the deck with the two lights in his hands should have just waved you off. USA is sufferring from a really bad case of drunken dick rot now.
Nobody was trying to "stabilize Iraq," you fucking idiot...
Consumer Electronics: Smartphone Bipolar Anxiety
You are watching populations systematically rape each other, in a trivia game they call economics, hoarding into artificial scarcity, in artificial business cycles anchored by feudal contracts, mass media public education from the womb, drawing bigger and bigger crowds, all seeking a scapegoat, other than themselves, Homeland Security for everyone, fearing change.
Why do you suppose illegal immigrants and H1B1 visa holders are granted licenses above the law with respect to natural born citizens with no criminal record?
Your basic components are a two-way open system, a one-way closed system and quantum lash, forming a pendulum, of pendulums. What you see are perceptions of loads, based upon your position and frame of reference. Effectively, you are a resistive switch, a potentiometer, and the critters are replacing themselves as fixed resistors, automating redundancy, attempting to replace you.
That load of derivatives pulls demand forward and projects the status quo out, to inflate income and assets, to create the perception of increasing return on decreasing risk. Empire legacy gives you a false choice, between a short and an open, compliance and rebellion, cavepeople always at war, and sells you the weapons, in this case a smartphone capital control and spy network, on someone else’s cloud, new ivory tower same as the old.
G sets up the structure so C pays no taxes, and burdens small business with NP, and, if you look, you will see that all the corporate executive boards are connected, which is why G can only print and pretend to collect taxes. Escape velocity is not falling participation, falling income to the remainder, and increasing income disparity favoring landlord monopoly, with printed rent inflation.
That’s it, screw the man, trimming Pharma Pot for doctors, inflating rent on property held by doctors, and blame the doctors, expecting something other than Obamacare capital control, prohibition of, by and for juveniles, and then stand in the path of militarized cops, expecting something other than your own blood on the street.
F produces nothing, but self-serving perception. The pre-occupiers complain about others, hoping to take advantage of your reactivity, bankrupting themselves. In the last iteration, the Nazis got caught being the last herd to lose, in an ever-present race to fascism, trying to contain individual producers with arbitrary debt.
In this iteration, Greenspan was brought in after the point of no return, Bernanke was the segway, and they dropped it all on Yellen, preparing for another polarity swap. All wars, including the war of the sexes, are empire loads, of bull. Wilma telling Fred how to move rocks and Fred telling Wilma how to have babies is not an economy.
Feudalism must embed Family Law in common law, because it requires ignorance begetting ignorance chasing ignorance, the assumption of a competition for scarce resources in a closed system, and the resulting police state gives the herd excuses for the simple stupidity of continued participation. An economy depends upon who is and is not having children. Everything else is derivative.
The ability to see forward is the only external feedback, and empires replace it with the past, more stuff, drugs to fill the void. The critters are caught in event horizons of stuff, of their own choice, hunting down a scapegoat for outcomes, always marching to war. Yellen and Congress are just administering the drugs demanded.
Labor is not so stupid as to make decisions based upon interest rates, regulation or data coming out of the Bureau. The majority always has a juvenile mentality, regardless of race. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are guaranteed to win, divine providence, and the majority bets on them to win, with MAD pensions. The point of democracy is the minority.
Don’t have children and expect the law of gravity to be on your side. The majority is always having children when it shouldn’t and not when it should, based upon popularity. That’s what the artificial business cycle is all about, making Dad, and then Mom, the bad guy, in the empire.
Government is in the Business of replacing parents at a Loss, and the majority fails to recognize the problemsolution until it’s far too late, Love in Action heroin addicts taking over the food bank, to monopolize grant income. Equality is necessarily a race to the bottom, and labor doesn’t do Fred Flintstone.
At birth, you are a unique key in search of a unique lock, which is a unique key in search of a unique lock, creating a current path to an unseen load. The empire doesn’t penalize curiosity, reward compliance, and employ rebellion to grow itself, getting dumber every day, by accident. It’s a reference voltage.
Money is a mass simplification, assuming that all dollars are equal, regardless of parties to the contract. Rent inflation has its uses, which the Saudi government is learning and why ISIS exists. Labor doesn’t need oil, or any other empire battery, to power its future.
That sun is only a stationary motor generator relative to the planets in its circuit. Only stupid assumes that something for nothing is an economy. Let stupid build its tower; even an 800 lb gorilla needs to eat.
Don't understand any of it much but liked it so +1 . You seem to be having some kind of short circuit of electronic/economic wiring, philosphical free assiociative artwork going on. "Wilma telling Fred how to move rocks " was an oridginal sounding turn of phrase with a kind of dual meaning with sexual undertones to it.
Far out, man!
The US promised protection for oil in dollars. ISIS is on the doorstep, if the US refuses the Saudi's will turn to the Russia, Iran and China.
Illegal immigrants here's the opportunity of a lifetime to die for English pedophile bankers. Pays not that good but your children will get to grow up in a police state.
It was a good idea to remove Suddam
s/ FTFY
I knew when Obama said there would be no U.S. boots on the ground as he put it that is was only a matter of time.
Obama is such a lying sack of s&^t that I actually fade anything that he says.
Yet the chicken shit media won't call him on it. Hey Jon Stewart, a video montage of POTUS lies would be highly entertaining. Get on it!
Mission Acomplished! ..... wait?
Obama can use GITO slave prisoners to manufacture parachutes in PA
Scranton Lace Company - Scranton PA
I need someone to tell me the name of this song of in above video. Beautiful piece. It sounds like Mr. Trent from NIN (Nine Inch Nails). Was a wild time in the past. Met Trent several times. Left the scene to grow up in my early 20’s. Still admire him. Thank you for your help!
... sounds like a plan ...
... control the military; you control the war ... control the oil; you control the world ... control the food; you control the people ... control the water; and they would call you Moses ... and if any of these fail? ... false-flag it ... :)
Clinton is Epstein.
Clinton is Epstein?
Epstein is Clinton!
FALSE FLAG!!!
Israel's Lebensraum uber alles.
The banksters need to repay us.
Trivia Question: What 2016 Presidential candidates grandfather worked at Lace Company?
http://artofabandonment.com/2010/08/scranton-lace-company/
Still need that song information.
be still david kauffman
or possibly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtp-p7qFI2I
Trivia Question: What 2016 Presidential candidate's grandfather worked for the CIA, ran the Bay of Pigs op. for them, and was involved in the coup against JFK?
Hint: Operation Zapata
The banksters need to repay us.
http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Songs-Using-Melody
Moochelle will bake and sell brownies at the Whitehouse to pay for this...
I doubt it, that would interfere with the slop she makes the kids eat these days thanks to her skewl lunch program.
She's going to boil some peas.
How clever...if you don't attack a country you don't have to declare war. Now we just attack organizations and our bombs hit them and only them, without so much as a scratch laid upon civilians.
It's unfathomable how far we have fallen...with voter approval, in fact.
Voter approval, perhaps, express consent, not so much. IMO, of course.
The US created the IS by invading Iraq & trying to violently overthrow the secular Syrian govt.
By re-invading, we are guaranteed endless war and endless death, which is what the psychopaths running the US govt. want.
Iraq refused the USA Bases and troops on Iraqi soil at war's end. So, the USA created ISIS sent it to Iraq to wage war. Now Iraq has no choice but to allow US troops back and bases occupied.
See how easy Iraq's refusal was cured?
US also supplied internal Afghan forces with 1-2 generation old tanks and attack helicopters, but rigth before the new year they tried confiscating the supplies in order to transfer them to Ukraine. Afghans pointed the guns right back: "That wasn't part of the deal. You ain't taking shit!" and to my surprise, US actually complied. Guess they have plenty of gear scattered around elsewhere in Europe.
Note to U.S. troops: No bitching and moaning when you come back. You signed up for this shit--and you've had PLENTY of time and opportunity to figure out just how completely bogus it really is--so ENJOY...
The tar baby of Iraq spreads it's arms to welcome back the U.S. army.
Ms. Obama is tweeting #OccupyIraq
I'm glad to know that the billions and billions spent on defense and intelligence finally led the US to the conclusion that when you spend billions and billions to train an army it's important that it's competent. Ah war, it's the gift that keeps on giving....to contractors.
Do we really need more delimbed youth coming home in our military?
How do we keep the Military Industrial lobbyists out of the Congressional bank accounts?
Here's an idea: DON'T JOIN THE FUCKING MILITARY.
You can choose to be left wing or right wing, but you have no choice when it comes to moar war.
Call out O'Birdie's army. Let's see how golf shoes work on the Iraqi ground.
More corporate welfare for the military-industrial complex.
So Barry's putting the Band back together (band of cocksuckers )?
If Shit for Brains Obama is going after ISIS then he goes after Mossad their TRAINERS. Go Bazza Go Bazza. You fucking FREAK.
What took so long...?!?
Guess we just had to scare the US muppet-citizens into submission.
Mr. Nobel gives us Iraq 3.0!
"if you like your Iraq troop withdrawal, you can keep your troop withrawal"
"We re-re-re-invaded some folks"
I'm sure our boys will be allowed to fight... just enough to make things interesting, but not to win.
Syria is to the Islamic Caliphate as Cambodia was to North Vietnam
And all you suckers out there who voted thought you mattered!
Huh, must be real pressure on to get that pipeline built!
Well, send moar boots so that will create more civilian causalities than ISIS itself, thus fueling more hatred toward the West from Muslims.
Then ISIS will recruit more candidates.
Maybe it's the goal of the western "strategies" ?
A much more realistic headline would have been,
"Boots On The Ground"? Obama To Seek Authorization For Military Force to assist ISIS and Bibi in a continued war with Syria.I would love to see this headline,
"Boots On The Ground"? Putin To Seek Authorization For Military Force Against ISISWe are Oceana with never ending war against Eurasia. Next week, it will be against East Asia with Eurasia as ally.
How the fuck is it we train hese assholes and let them loose and now have to use FARCE against them. My tax dollarz at work.
May the Farce be wif ewe.
No
I take it this is a re-invasion
WAR against ISLAM will be enough to distract us from the Economy
the Islamic robots will die easily and they believe God wants them to jump into the meat grinder !
Death to Islam and UP with PROFIT FOR BANKS
Fight for Uncle Scam
( ps... its sarcasm, dimwit ! )
1933, Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor- said (it all)-
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as
something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a
nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."
WAR against ISLAM will be enough to distract us from the Economy
the Islamic robots will die easily and they believe God wants them to jump into the meat grinder !
Death to Islam and UP with PROFIT FOR BANKS
Fight for Uncle Scam
( ps... its sarcasm, dimwit ! )
wtf dbl post ? argh
LOL...have fun, assholes...
Daesh - the JV team!