U.S. troops may return to Middle East to train Iraqis

[n2doc]

The Pentagon is considering sending U.S. troops back to the Middle East to help train Iraqi forces, defense officials said Friday.

It is unclear whether troops would be sent directly into Iraq or possibly conduct training in a nearby country such as Jordan. “We are in continuing discussions about how we can improve the Iraqi military,” Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday.

The idea of sending U.S. military trainers back to Iraq for the first time since 2011 is one the Pentagon has emphatically rejected in recent years, but on Friday, Warren offered a carefully worded statement that did not rule out the possibility.

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Just ducky. What a fitting ending to this shitty week. Unless we start bombing Iran, which I wouldn't rule out given how things are going.

[SamKnause]

1. Iraq

FUCK NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. In Viet Nam they were called 'advisors"

My ex was one of thousands of these "non-combatant advisors"..in 1964, when LBJ ws denying any military action in Viet Nam.

So, now...."trainers"
question: What happened to all those Iraq forces we "trained" just before we (mostly) left Iraq?
And why aren't the few thousand troops we left in Iraq doing the ...training.?