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Suzanimal
04-13-2016, 03:33 PM
Are Marines combat troops?

In Barack Obama’s world, the answer is apparently not—not even when they are on the ground exchanging fire with the enemy. This is the fiction supported by Hillary Clinton and largely unchallenged by any of the three Republican candidates for president.

A recent headline in the Marine Corps Times summed it up this way: “Marines in Iraq technically not in combat but still getting some.”

Welcome to Mr. Obama’s hidden war.

Forty-five years ago this month, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a young war vet named John Kerry complained that the whitewashing of the reality of American involvement in Vietnam meant that each day “someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn’t have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we don’t have to admit a mistake.”

Today, as secretary of state, Mr. Kerry travels about the world rationalizing an Iraq policy designed to keep President Obama from having to admit his mistake: that he has only made worse a war he claimed to have ended. The entire world knows this too.

In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News, President Obama declared that his “number one priority right now” is defeating Islamic State. But how does the man who sees himself as the guy who gets America out of its wars deal with the contradiction?

Part of the answer seems to be fudging the troop numbers. Officially U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan are capped at 3,870 and 9,800 respectively. But after a Marine in northern Iraq—Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin—was killed in an ISIS rocket attack, the Pentagon was forced to admit there are as many as 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Only then did Americans learn that men such as Staff Sgt. Cardin are not included in the official troop count because they were rotated in on a temporary basis.

Mrs. Clinton has her own version of the charade. “I will not send American combat troops to Iraq or Syria,” she has declared in more than one primary debate. Instead, she says, “we will continue to use Special Forces.”

It’s pure hooey, of course. For one thing, it is based on the ridiculous idea that special ops forces are also not combat troops. Which is part of the larger Obama fable that ISIS can be knocked off with only a handful of American fighters.

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Meanwhile, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Texas Rep. Mac Thornberry, confirms that Congress has no real idea of how many U.S. troops are in fact in Iraq. Unfortunately, he says, there is “a political reluctance to speak forthrightly on what’s at stake and what is required” to defeat ISIS—and he senses “some of that reluctance in both parties.”

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-hides-his-iraq-war-1460416847?mg=id-wsj

enhanced_deficit
03-25-2017, 10:04 PM
Why is media neocons still hiding Iraq war carnage taking place now with Trump in the WH? Disgraced (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?433586-Majority-of-Americans-now-believe-Obama-is-quot-dishonest-and-untrustworthy) DGP has been out of power for more than 2 months now.







Not seeing this anywhere in Wash Post, CNN etc.

https://www.google.com/#q=iraq+mosul+civilians+site:washingtonpost.com+&*

In Mosul campaign, reported civilian deaths in U.S. strikes climb - The ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...mosul...civilian.../e4ca84e0-b33b-11e6-bc2d-19b3d...
Nov 25, 2016 - IRBIL, Iraq — Air and artillery strikes by the U.S.-led coalition in the Iraqi city of Mosul appear to have killed more than 80 civilians since a major ...

https://www.google.com/#q=iraq+mosul+civilians+site:cnn.com&*

No current news

Granted US MSM seems to be tied up with DGPbagcare repeal but still why such a big news if true is not being reported in US MSM ?


iraq mosul civilians site:nbcnews.com

iraq mosul civilians site:cbsnews.com

iraq mosul civilians site:abcnews.com

No reporting.






Hmmm... now why would the MSM be covering up trump's heinous civilian killings? Wouldn't they use this to take him down? They're against him aren't they?



That is a very good question.
Not only just CNN, WaPo neocons are not reporting this, it is not being reported by NBC , CBS, ABC news either... why all left wing neocons leaning outlets would not be rushing with headlines that put Trump in bad light?

Not sure if this is valid reason but might be plausible reason, could they be trying to avoid further tainting of DGP's legacy for fear that Trump people would try to blame this mess on DGP's masters?


Donald Trump inherits Obama's mess: U.S. troops in Iraq are ...
www.theblaze.com/.../donald-trump-inherits-obamas-mess-u-s-troops-in-iraq-are-adv (http://www.theblaze.com/.../donald-trump-inherits-obamas-mess-u-s-troops-in-iraq-are-adv)...
Dec 28, 2016 - In a phrase that defies logic, Reuters reports that American ground troops are preparing to advance to the front lines in Mosul in a new phase of ...

Mission to take Mosul will test Obama's controversial plan to fight ISIS ...
www.pbs.org/.../mission-take-mosul-will-test-obamas-plan-fight-isis-without-u-s-force (http://www.pbs.org/.../mission-take-mosul-will-test-obamas-plan-fight-isis-without-u-s-force)...
Oct 17, 2016 - Children cheer as a Peshmerga military convoy rolls towards eastern Mosul. Photo by Emrah Yorulmaz/Getty Images. WASHINGTON — More ...

Obama hoping for quick Mosul victory to validate ISIS strategy, boost ...
www.washingtontimes.com/.../obama-hoping-for-quick-mosul-victory-to-validate-i/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/.../obama-hoping-for-quick-mosul-victory-to-validate-i/)
Oct 23, 2016 - With the fight for Mosul entering its second week, the Obama administration is under pressure to declare victory over the Islamic State, a win the ...

How Mosul could redefine a key part of Obama's legacy (+video ...
www.csmonitor.com/.../How-Mosul-could-redefine-a-key-part-of-Obama-s-legacy-vi (http://www.csmonitor.com/.../How-Mosul-could-redefine-a-key-part-of-Obama-s-legacy-vi)...
Oct 19, 2016 - The battle to free Mosul from the Islamic State is a test of America's evolving approach to fighting terrorism abroad, as well as US credibility in ...


Iraq suspends Mosul offensive after coalition airstrike atrocity

Move comes as international outrage grows over airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in Mosul Jadida neighbourhood


(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/25/iraq-suspends-mosul-offensive-after-coalition-airstrike-atrocity#img-1) Resident of Mosul Jadida retrieve bodies from the rubble following the coalition airstrikes. Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP
artin Chulov in Mosul, and Emma Graham-Harrison

Saturday 25 March 2017

Iraqi military leaders have halted their push to recapture west Mosul from Islamic State as international outrage grew over the civilian toll from airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in a single district of the city.

The attack on the Mosul Jadida neighbourhood is thought to have been one of the deadliest bombing raids for civilians since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Rescuers were still pulling bodies from the rubble on Saturday, more than a week after the bombs landed, when the US-led coalition confirmed that its aircraft had targeted Isis fighters in the area.
They carried out the attack on 17 March “at the request of the Iraqi security forces”, and have now launched a formal investigation into reports of civilian casualties, the coalition said.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...trike-atrocity (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/25/iraq-suspends-mosul-offensive-after-coalition-airstrike-atrocity)

CPUd
03-25-2017, 10:13 PM
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https://twitter.com/airwars/status/845803767828230144

enhanced_deficit
03-26-2017, 01:01 PM
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https://twitter.com/BrowneGareth/status/846045924052873218

So that's how wars are hidden selectively by media owners.

timosman
03-26-2017, 01:04 PM
Does our debt have anything to do with this? Do we owe something to Saudi Arabia and Israel? :confused: