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*More Of Same
(Cartoon by Lee Judge, published 6/22/14 in the Kansas City Star and featured at McClatchy DC. Click on image to enlarge and then return, please.)
No, I'm not through yelling about this. I'd set my hair on fire if I thought it would do any good (or if it were longer than 1/8th inch all the way around). I'm really that furious.
And so should every American be, regardless of political persuasion. This administration isn't fooling anybody when it says that the 300 troops being sent to Iraq are there merely as advisors to Iraqi security forces. Yeah, right. And I was the inspiration for "My Sharona."
From McClatchy D.C.
“‘Combat’ is an elastic term when you talk about special operations guys, because you never know what they’re going to be doing,” [Former Marine Corp Sgt. Andrew] van Wey, who now does marketing for a military apparel firm in Fort Worth, Texas, said in an interview. “The nature of these guys’ jobs is covert. When you send in special operations, they leave a smaller footprint than infantry or other conventional forces. That’s how they get around violating the spirit of ‘no boots on the ground.’”
Others who served in Iraq said that once the new U.S. troops are embedded with their Iraqi counterparts, all bets are off, because there are few safe havens in a very dangerous country.
“It’s a stretch to say they won’t see combat,” Eric Young, a former Marine corporal who fought in Fallujah during two deployments to Iraq, told McClatchy. “More than likely those Green Berets will take up leadership roles in the Iraqi military. They may not be doing a lot of fighting, but they won’t just sit back and call for support. They’re there to lead from the front. You don’t lead from the back.” [Enphasis added]
The US troops will get involved, perhaps wounded or killed and certain elements will call for vengeance and then, just in time for November, 2016, it will become the kind of issue the GOP has been dreaming of.
Like I said last week. Here we go again.
No, I'm not through yelling about this. I'd set my hair on fire if I thought it would do any good (or if it were longer than 1/8th inch all the way around). I'm really that furious.
And so should every American be, regardless of political persuasion. This administration isn't fooling anybody when it says that the 300 troops being sent to Iraq are there merely as advisors to Iraqi security forces. Yeah, right. And I was the inspiration for "My Sharona."
From McClatchy D.C.
“‘Combat’ is an elastic term when you talk about special operations guys, because you never know what they’re going to be doing,” [Former Marine Corp Sgt. Andrew] van Wey, who now does marketing for a military apparel firm in Fort Worth, Texas, said in an interview. “The nature of these guys’ jobs is covert. When you send in special operations, they leave a smaller footprint than infantry or other conventional forces. That’s how they get around violating the spirit of ‘no boots on the ground.’”
Others who served in Iraq said that once the new U.S. troops are embedded with their Iraqi counterparts, all bets are off, because there are few safe havens in a very dangerous country.
“It’s a stretch to say they won’t see combat,” Eric Young, a former Marine corporal who fought in Fallujah during two deployments to Iraq, told McClatchy. “More than likely those Green Berets will take up leadership roles in the Iraqi military. They may not be doing a lot of fighting, but they won’t just sit back and call for support. They’re there to lead from the front. You don’t lead from the back.” [Enphasis added]
The US troops will get involved, perhaps wounded or killed and certain elements will call for vengeance and then, just in time for November, 2016, it will become the kind of issue the GOP has been dreaming of.
Like I said last week. Here we go again.
Labels: Election 2016, Iraq, Military Industrial Complex, oil companies
posted by Diane at 5:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hi DIane, good to see you're still up and at it. I'm hoping, with you I'm sure, that we will pay more attention to the Ebola outbreak in African coastal cities than to some stupid religious war in the middle east.
Al the best,
BigBuck
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