Obama’s purse chihuahua yaps about disastrous U.S. troop levels in Iraq.
A senior military official said by reducing the number of troops to 3,000, the White House has effectively reduced the mission to training only.
“There is almost no room for security operations in that number; it will be almost purely a training mission,” this official said. The official added that a very small number of troops within that 3,000 will be dedicated to counter-terrorism efforts, but that’s not nearly what Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, wanted.
This shift is seen by various people as a cost-saving measure and a political measure. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the U.S. has operated responsibly to meet the year-end deadline to remove troops from Iraq, per a 2008 Status of Forces Agreement.
via Sources: Obama Administration To Drop Troop Levels In Iraq To 3,000 | FoxNews.com.
Jay Carney doesn’t know what a responsible decision is with regard to troop levels for a given mission, and neither does his boss. This statement, more than most, strikes me as the sort of lies spoken by men who hold the American citizen in the deepest contempt. We are beneath their notice, and will be fed a steady stream of numbing, tranquilizing nonsense.
I tend to agree with the often-infuriating Senator Lindsey Graham: “The biggest winner of a U.S. decision to move to 3,000 troops in Iraq would the Iranian regime. The ayatollahs would rejoice.”
