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Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: August 13, 2014, 8:07 am
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Apparently Special ops troops don't count. The game of
semantics continues...
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> Another 130 U.S. troops arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on what the
Pentagon described as a temporary mission to assess the scope of
the humanitarian crisis facing thousands of displaced Iraqi
civilians trapped on Sinjar Mountain and evaluate options for
getting them out to safety.
> Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the deployment in
remarks to Marines at this Southern California base on the final
stop of a week-long, around-the-world trip that also took him to
India, Germany and Australia.
>
> "This is not a combat boots on the ground kind of operation,"
Hagel said. "We're not going back into Iraq in any of the same
combat mission dimensions that we once were in in Iraq," he
added, referring to the eight-year war that cost more than 4,400
U.S. lives and soured the American public on military
involvement in Iraq.
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HTML http://news.yahoo.com/us-sends-130-more-troops-iraq-231813625--politics.html
It now appears that " no boots on the ground" has been changed
to "no combat boots". Oh what a tangled web we weave.......
#Post#: 15146--------------------------------------------------
Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: udontnojack
Date: August 13, 2014, 9:27 am
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But not at all surprised
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Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: Snickers
Date: August 13, 2014, 10:03 am
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Another broken promise to add to Obama's long, long list.
And that doesn't include his long, long, long list of out right
lies.
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Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: luvcats
Date: August 13, 2014, 10:18 am
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> Another broken promise to add to Obama's long, long list.
>
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Yes.
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Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: August 13, 2014, 12:57 pm
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I'm not really sure how one can say these aren't "combat
troops". Are they unarmed? Do they have instruction to not
shoot if they're shot at? What?? How do you send troops into a
combat zone and not call them combat troops?
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Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: rapids_60
Date: August 13, 2014, 3:15 pm
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> Apparently Special ops troops don't count.
>
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They never have up until now. We have had special ops in
several countries we officially did not have "boots on the
ground' in. Including Iraq before our last invasion.
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Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: August 13, 2014, 7:01 pm
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--- Quote from: rapids_60 link ---
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> They never have up until now. We have had special ops in
several countries we officially did not have "boots on the
ground' in. Including Iraq before our last invasion.
>
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Silly me, here I thought no boots on the ground meant......
It kinda reminds me of a song, who does it escapes me but it's
called "You Cant Call it Cheatin' Cause She Remind Me of You".
Gin Blossoms!!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakCPeyFQ6c
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Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: August 13, 2014, 8:10 pm
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I guess the good news is, the humanitarian involving thousands
of Christians crisis didn't cancel out the "hugfest" scheduled
for Martha's Vineyard tonight. It's all about priorities.
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Re: Boots on the ground? What boots on the ground!!
DIR By: trollslayer
Date: August 16, 2014, 8:12 am
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--- Quote from: trollslayer link ---
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> I guess the good news is, the humanitarian involving thousands
of Christians crisis didn't cancel out the "hugfest" scheduled
for Martha's Vineyard tonight. It's all about priorities.
>
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Mission Accomplished. The crisis is over. Everybody's fine on
the mountain. "We broke the siege" of the mountain. If you
believe this.....
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