Analysis: Obama returns to the quagmire he exited in Iraq

[unhappycamper]

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-obama-iraq-20140809-story.html

Analysis: Obama returns to the quagmire he exited in Iraq
By Kathleen Hennessey, David S. Cloud
8.8.2014

For three years, President Obama has declared himself the man who closed the door on a dark decade of U.S. war in Iraq. Now he has opened the door again.

Other than insisting no U.S. combat troops will return to Iraq, Obama's advisors outlined few clear limits and no definitive end to America's latest military mission, which began Friday with airstrikes against Sunni militants and drops of humanitarian aid. Given Obama's stated reluctance to use military force in Syria and other hot spots, the White House faced pressure to explain why Iraq was different, what airstrikes would achieve and whether Obama was launching a new phase of an old war.

"I see this as a watershed event," said retired Army Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, the top commander in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. "Now that we are using lethal force in Iraq, that's a huge bridge to cross, and it's very difficult to get back across once you are over it."

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Behind the scenes, however, the U.S. factories that produce Hellfire missiles began "working seven days a week in order to meet the need and push them out to Iraq," a senior administration official said. Both manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft and satellites provided near round-the-clock intelligence on Irbil, the Kurdish regional capital, and other key areas.

[randr]

1. We will be witness to a military incursion run by a real leader

like the one we saw when we took out Bin Laden. Not the open ended hand out to chosen military contractors with no accountability.

[MisterP]

2. nope--just the same adventurism, but this time the pathetic, slavering, smitten lackeys are the

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ones who'd normally be the ones holding him responsible

on edit: and pathetic remoras, vomitous trotting poodles, Followers so authoritarian they literally can't comprehend that anyone would disagree with them