Missouri_Mike
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Obama announces 275 US troops WILL be sent to Iraq to protect American embassy in Baghdad days after saying they would not return
President Obama announced on Monday evening that US ground troops 'equipped for combat' are being sent to Iraq just days after claiming that no American soldiers would be deployed to the war-torn country.Good on him for protecting embassy personnel.
In a letter to Congress, the president said American troops will be returning to Iraq only three years after they left and their deployment began on Sunday.
Obama said that their only purpose will be to protect U.S. personnel and the embassy in Baghdad and not to join in the fierce fighting raging outside the Iraqi capital.
The president did tell Congress, however, that American military personnel in Baghdad will be 'equipped for combat.'
Now it appears they are sending 100 actual combat troops and 175 support members, which I'm not sure means what actually. But 275 sounded pretty low to me for an embassy larger than Vatican City but it appears to be about 100 at this point.
I think the best plan is to pull everyone out and drop a couple MOAB's on the site and destroy it down to ground level or less. Position our guys to help the Kurds who are the only people worth a shit over there and from that base help cover Israel. Spec ops locating the weapons we lost and destroy them without remorse for collateral damage and even take back what we can but don't leave them with those weapons. Them just sit back and watch the shiite's and sunni's destroy each other. Once one group gets a hand up jump in with some air strikes and relevel the field until they are all extinct.