Obama Sending More Troops To Iraq: What's Wrong With These 3 "Boots On The Ground" Headlines

On June 13th, CNN reports President Obama stated: [10]

No troops to Iraq, but other options are being considered.

 

That was President Barack Obama's message Friday in response to the lightning advance by Sunni militant fighters in Iraq that could threaten the government of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

 

In a statement delivered from the White House South Lawn, Obama said the United States "will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq," but that he would be reviewing a range of other options in coming days.

 

As AP reported on July 25th [11]

The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday that would bar President Barack Obama from sending forces to Iraq in a "sustained combat role" without congressional approval, a bill with greater symbolic than legal effect.

And today, as AP reports [12]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US officials: Military weighs plan to send a small number of additional troops to Iraq.

[13]

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So BOOTS WILL BE ON THE GROUND - just as President Obama had told the American people they would not be...

Of course we assume these are humanitarian assassination advising troops...

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In addition to the fact that President Obama has basically declared war on ISIS... this just happened...

• *SEPARATISTS SHOOT DOWN UKRAINE SU-25 FIGHTER PLANE: REUTERS
• *ISRAEL WILL HIT HAMAS INFRASTRUCTURE, COMMANDERS: NETANYAHU

So - all war, all the time...