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DreamSmoker

(841 posts)
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 03:27 PM Mar 2017

WE are building Forces today to go to War in Syria... Bet many of You had no Idea...

Not a PeeP from the Media or the Trump Administration...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is sending an additional 2,500 ground combat troops to a staging base in Kuwait from which they could be called upon to back up coalition forces battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

The deployment will include elements of the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, which is based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. About 1,700 soldiers from the same unit are overseas now, spread between Iraq and Kuwait. They're focused on the U.S.-led effort to train and assist the Iraqi troops doing much of the fighting against ISIS there.

https://www.armytimes.com/articles/82nd-airborne-syria-iraq-kuwait-islamic-state

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WE are building Forces today to go to War in Syria... Bet many of You had no Idea... (Original Post) DreamSmoker Mar 2017 OP
Of course. Trump and Bannon need to play army with these lives AND Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
ISIS is not the real threat. Ilsa Mar 2017 #2
Of course ..they will spend American lives to take the heat of the investigations. INdemo Mar 2017 #3
these SOB's are keeping bdamomma Mar 2017 #4
Our young men and women..fighting to secure what exactly? Oil!.. asiliveandbreathe Mar 2017 #5
See, I've lost IT! - I meant NATO forces...so sorry..eom asiliveandbreathe Mar 2017 #6
People will wake up. Blue_true Mar 2017 #7

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Of course. Trump and Bannon need to play army with these lives AND
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 03:30 PM
Mar 2017

start a war that can insulate them while they literally hand the country over to Putin.

I predicted war a very long time ago if these fascists took over, I just wasnt sure where they would start it.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
2. ISIS is not the real threat.
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 03:33 PM
Mar 2017

"Accidentally" getting into a war with Russia there, or seeing US military treated as collateral damage, is the real threat, from what I can tell.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
3. Of course ..they will spend American lives to take the heat of the investigations.
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 03:43 PM
Mar 2017

Every f&(kg Republican has always used our Military to take the heat off of them.

I notice the Corporate media now have the scripts that read "What about the Democrats?" What if there is nothing there with the Russian issue?".."Wont Democrats be charged by their constituents as interfering with Trump?"
thats the new talking point.

bdamomma

(63,837 posts)
4. these SOB's are keeping
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 03:57 PM
Mar 2017

Americans in the dark about everything. This is all for Putin. Putin needs a stronghold in the Middle East.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
5. Our young men and women..fighting to secure what exactly? Oil!..
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 04:14 PM
Mar 2017

Shared interest trump/putin Syria...we back off arming Ukranian fighters against putin..but put our military in harms way - under the guise of fighting ISIS...only, we create more FOR ISIS than less..they have nothing to lose..and trump/putin have everything to gain...

I sure hope the UN is able to fend off Russia in the Baltics...

I know, I've lost...

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. People will wake up.
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 04:53 PM
Mar 2017

When the bodybags filled with soldier's remains start coming home. Urban warfare against fanatics likely will leave a lot of dead.

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