Pentagon to deploy roughly 3,500 more troops to Middle East amid tensions with Iran

[riversedge]

Source: abc



The moves comes in the wake of a strike that killed Iran's top general.

January 3, 2020, 12:11 PM

The Pentagon is deploying roughly 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region with Iran and one day after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian military commander.


One official indicated the troops could be stationed in Kuwait, where 750 soldiers from the same brigade were deployed on Tuesday following violent protests at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.


The decision to deploy additional American forces is partly in anticipation of a possible retaliatory attack by Iran or its proxies following a U.S. drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's Quds Force.

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This from trump who brags about bringing troops home.

Link to tweet

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[braddy]

1. It is a days old story, those other troopers of the Brigade were readying for deployment as the

first 750 were being deployed.

Before the terrorist leaders were taken out.

[EndlessWire]

8. How do you know?

I think we're doing a slow build up of troops and have been since before Turkey began slaughtering Kurds.

[PatSeg]

2. Not to worry

Trump knows more about war in the Middle East than the generals.

[durablend]

10. Bet he's playing army men as we speak

PEW PEW PEW

[C Moon]

3. Remember when Pence promised the troops there would be action very soon?

That one still gets me, he was promising them that they would be able to kill and maim very soon.
...and then he calls himself a Christian?
I'm not Christian myself, but I do believe that's way off base.

[EndlessWire]

9. I remember that. n/t

[ancianita]

14. I call it bipolar christianism.

The most eager to be seen as christian can be counted on to conspire with evildoers. Satan presents well, invites all to bow down, and in that very act they fool themselves.

[ancianita]

4. Plus the 6,000 already there, plus the 750 just recently deployed. No congressional authorization.

No congressional authorization.

[Jedi Guy]

12. Unfortunately, he doesn't need Congressional authorization.

The War Powers Act gives him the ability to commit the military to action for 60 days without Congress having a say, with a further 30 day withdrawal period. After that, he'd have to get authorization from Congress and/or a formal declaration of war. As long as he briefs Congress within 48 hours of the action commencing, he's not in breach of the law.

What he's doing is reckless, feckless, foolhardy, stupid, idiotic, dangerous and liable to blow up in our collective face, but one thing it isn't is illegal.

[ancianita]

13. Yes. There is a legal method to his lawless madness.

[Canoe52]

5. I'm from the 'nam era, 3,500 today, 10,000 next week...sigh

A lotta people gonna be in a lot of hurt over more stupid shit...

[BlueIdaho]

6. Wag the dog. nt.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. They're going to need a lot more than that.

[durablend]

11. There's 53 more people they can ship over