So much for no boots on the ground: Obama authorizes 1,500 more troops

[cali]

President Barack Obama has approved doubling the U.S. military force in Iraq and allowing troops to venture beyond headquarters already established in Baghdad and Erbil, in an escalation of the U.S. effort to defeat Islamic State extremists.

Obama also is asking Congress to approve $5.6 billion in added Pentagon and State Department spending to fight the Sunni militants who have seized a swath of Iraq and Syria.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-07/obama-to-seek-added-5-6-billion-for-islamic-state-fight.html

So what do all of you who swore that this wasn't going to happen, that you could take the Presidents word as gospel, have to say now?

[Darb]

1. Maybe we should just completely withdraw from and abandon the nation

that we fucking obliterated, occupied, polluted, and killed hundreds of thousands of their conscripted soldiers and citizens just a short 6 or so years ago. Yeah, that's it. We have no business being involved in their shit at all. It has nothing to do with us.

That's the ticket.

[cali]

2. yes. maybe we should. Yes, we fucked Iraq, but our being there will, if history

teaches us anything at fucking all, make things even worse.

But you go on cheering for endless war, honey.

[dilby]

4. Sounds good to me, I am all for leaving Iraq and all it's shit.

Sorry but Iraq is never going to get better no matter how much money and blood we throw at it, it's better to just cut the loss and let them figure it out than to keep watching our children die there for a mistake.

[AZ Mike]

3. Word is....

....that the newly deployed will be issued hoverboards (a la, Back to the Future II). So, still no boots "on the ground".

Promise kept.

[Maedhros]

5. "You fucked up - you trusted us." [n/t]

[Raven]

6. The Pleasant Fiction of "No Boots on the Ground"

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/26188-the-pleasant-fiction-of-no-boots-on-the-ground

15 September 2014.

Someday, someone is going to listen.

[NaturalHigh]

7. Yeah, I khew that "no boots on the ground" thing wasn't going to last long.

[markpkessinger]

8. Election is over . . .

. . . and so is the need for any mask.