U.S. Ready To Send Advisers, Helicopters To Iraq To Help Retake Ramadi

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON | By Phil Stewart and Yeganeh Torbati

The United States is prepared to deploy advisers and attack helicopters if requested by Iraq to help it "finish the job" of retaking the city of Ramadi from Islamic State, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.

Carter's remarks were the latest sign of U.S. preparations to intensify its military campaign against the group, which controls wide swaths of Iraq and Syria and has orchestrated and inspired attacks abroad.

Islamic State captured Ramadi, a provincial capital just a short drive west of Baghdad, in May in its biggest conquest since last year. Retaking it would be a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

Carter, speaking at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, said it has taken a "frustratingly long time" for Iraqi security forces to claw back territory.



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[roamer65]

1. Ashton, what part of "you are not wanted here" do you not understand?

The Shi'a Iraqi government does not want US troops in Iraq anymore. They have chosen to align with Iran and Russia.

[Ford_Prefect]

2. Hip deep again, here we go!

[turbinetree]

3. While we have a spineless..............................

U.S. Congress do what exactly...........................nothing, but make $174,000 and $223,500 a year and do excatly what--------------nothing

They walk around bad mouthing the president that he isn't doing enough, and then they walk around saying exactly what, while the president has asked them for authorization

What a bunch of four day take a vacation hypocrites--------freeloaders ----------------I mean really what a bunch of freeloaders-------------reinstate the god damn draft, then this country will wake up to what these freeloaders really are doing----------------------mission creep -----------------like Vietnam


This should be sent to them as a reminder of there sworn duties;

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/usconstitution/a/a1s8.htm

Clause 11:

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;



Honk----------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[bluedigger]

4. What the hell - it's not like we haven't done it before.

[Skittles]

5. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[Kennah]

7. Third time's the charm n/t

[DreamGypsy]

8. Please be reassured...we seek no wider war...

...from the remarks of U.S. Defense Secretary <insert name here>

The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and to the government of <insert name of country of current conflict here> will be redoubled by this outrage. Yet our response, for the present, will be limited and fitting. We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

Machine gun bullets became the bloody baptizers
And the falcon 'copters don't care if someone's the wiser
But the boy in the <choose one: jungle, desert, city, village> didn't know he was killed by advisers
So please be reassured, we seek no wider war
....
While we were watching the prisoners were tested by torture
And vicious and violent gasses maintained the order
As the finest Washington minds found slogans for slaughter
But please be reassured, we seek no wider war
...
We're teaching people freedom for which they are yearning
While were dragging them down to the path of never returning
But we'll condescend to talk while the cities are burning
But please be reassured, we seek no wider war

And the evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders
But the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers
And a world of hunger in vengeance will always remember
So please be reassured, we seek no wider war
We seek no wider war

--P. Ochs

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. We are never going to get out of there.

We might as well just build permanent bases and get set up to stay forever.

[joshcryer]

10. That's what caused 9/11.

Bases in the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia. Part of Bin Laden's demands. Bush complied, of course.

[Herman4747]

11. If I were a Resident of Ramadi...

I would welcome any help from the air to liberate me from the Islamic State.

[Herman4747]

13. We are talking helicoptors here...

with missiles and bullets precisely aimed.
And, please, in the future, do NOT make any conjectures about my wishes, given that you do NOT know me -- is that too much to ask?