Pentagon May Send More Advisers to Iraq

[jakeXT]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. defense official says the Pentagon is considering sending more military advisers to Iraq.

Their role would be to help determine future course of action for the U.S., based in part on the impact of several days of targeted airstrikes on the Islamic extremist fighters and how that has affected Kurdish forces opposing them in northern Iraq.

The defense official spoke on condition of anonymity because no decisions about expanding the adviser team have been made.

The Pentagon already has 250 military personnel in Iraq in advisory roles. About 90 are studying the strength of the Islamic State militant group's fighters and the Iraqi government forces, and another 160 are advising Iraqi forces on military operations.


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[cstanleytech]

1. I hope congress gets off its ass and puts a hard limit on the number of troops we can send over

because if they dont it could snowball out of control like Vietnam did.

[EEO]

2. Shocking.

[TwilightGardener]

3. If they're "considering" it, it's already in motion.

[bigwillq]

4. Yuck

[valerief]

5. More advisers always equals more war. nt

[Robbins]

6. and the path to war begins

We will soon be back In Iraq indefently.

[olddad56]

7. Advisors? didn't they used to call them soldiers?

back in the day when terrorists were called the enemy.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Nah. The Green Berets were "advisors"

when Kennedy ent them into Vietnam in (iirc) 1961.

[MisterP]

8. will we stop dumping money and arms to the Syrian rebels? or are we just compulsively

playing both sides until it bites us in the ass (for the 40th time?)

[candelista]

10. "Advisers." Heh.

Just like Dear Abby, only with anti-personnel weapons.

[LloydS of New London]

11. just substitute sand...

[lark]

12. No, No, No!

I can't freaking stand it.

We do not need to get more entangled in a Sunni vs. Shiite war. It was wrong for us to go there in the first place and it will be totally, stupidly, wrong to go back.

[tom_kelly]

13. The bomb makers don't agree n/t

[neverforget]

14. And before you know it, they'll be in combat. Then, we'll

need to send some combat troops to help the "advisors" aka Special Forces.

[bigtree]

15. that's what they called them in 1958

. . . they'll be hovering ever so slightly above the ground, of course.