U.S.Special Forces Have Been Re-Deployed To Iraq
October 10, 2012 – Don’t believe for one instant that all of our troops left Iraq in December 2011. The American Flag was lowered in Bagdad, but an unspecified number of American troops remain. Now we are negotiating with Iraq to send more American soldiers to aid with training missions.
According to General Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq to advise on counter-terrorism and help with intelligence. This at the request of the Iraqi government.
Read more about this in the New York Times and The Common Ills.
How will this affect the Obama Presidential re-election campaign?
We are still in Afghanistan. We are still in Iraq, and we are sending more soldiers there.
Wednesday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country’s military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria.
For those of you who believe that Barack Obama is less likely to start a war than Mitt Romney…You might want to rethink that idea. -JRoycroft
