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BOOTS ON THE GROUND! COMING TO A “DESERT DEMOCRACY” (NOT) NEAR YOU! By FITSNEWS || Is anybody surprised that scarcely a week after U.S. president Barack Obama doubled down on the number of “advisors” in Iraq, that his top military official let slip the administration is considering “boots on the…

BOOTS ON THE GROUND! COMING TO A “DESERT DEMOCRACY” (NOT) NEAR YOU!

By FITSNEWS || Is anybody surprised that scarcely a week after U.S. president Barack Obama doubled down on the number of “advisors” in Iraq, that his top military official let slip the administration is considering “boots on the ground?”

As in combat troops … in Iraq.

That’s right … the “dumb war” once castigated by Obama the presidential candidate (and then ended by Obama the president) is about to be back like cooked crack.  All because the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – our former allies – are continuing to open up cans of whoop ass (a.k.a. “volcanoes of jihad“) all over the place.

Time to face facts: America’s ill-conceived (Air) War on Terror in Iraq isn’t working.  And now … as we predicted … the drumbeat for ground troops is beginning.

Just ask Martin Dempsey, chairman of Obama’s joint chiefs of staff … who explicitly stated the administration is “considering” supplementing Iraqi troops with U.S. soldiers in the battle to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.

“I’m not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but we’re certainly considering it,” Dempsey said.

And there it is … ground troops.  Officially on the table.

Obama has vowed U.S. combat troops will not be returning to Iraq – where a U.S.-led invasion from 2003-11 obviously failed to make the region “safe for democracy” (as if that’s something that should have ever been an American foreign policy objective in the first place).

Anyway … the endless war rolls on.  And with each senseless escalation, America becomes less safe, less free and less prosperous.

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83 comments

Nobama November 13, 2014 at 4:47 pm

Stand by for Obama to renege on yet another promise.

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History repeats November 13, 2014 at 4:48 pm

Just like Rome of antiquity….perpetual war, inflation, ever expanding gov’t- then “boom”…it ends. Our barbarians won’t be at our gate, we’ll have leave the grounds for our defeat. I’m not sure it’ll take the US empire 300 more years though…that seems too optimistic.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 13, 2014 at 8:09 pm

I’m not sure it’ll take the US empire 300 more years though…

30 years is being optimistic.

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Bill November 13, 2014 at 4:51 pm

McCain is buddies with ISIS leaders. Why don’t we ask him what to do?

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Smirks November 13, 2014 at 5:02 pm

I got a better idea, just give him and the rest of these guys a pair of boots. They want boots on the ground, by golly let’s give them what they want.

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Diogenes November 13, 2014 at 7:15 pm

And you might throw in a few pairs for George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz.

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Tazmaniac November 14, 2014 at 8:50 am

And Hillary. What are you, some sexist pig trying keep women from breaking through the glass ceiling? She deserves those boots.

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shifty henry November 15, 2014 at 12:26 pm

We deserve Xena-Warrior Princess, she knows how to get things done. Of course, Gabrielle must go along. Too bad we can’t post photos because there are a series of steaming hot photos of Lucy Lawless not in her warrior garb.

euwe max November 13, 2014 at 9:58 pm

Let them defend their arguments by example.

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RogueElephant November 14, 2014 at 8:08 am

I really hate to agree with you and Smirks on anything but Graham and McCain are the ones that should lead by example . Every time something happens anywhere in the world they jump up and want to waste American lives and fortunes. Let them go first.

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 8:16 am

We shouldn’t send our sons and daughters to die on the basis of a political finesse, engineered to embarrass a party or individual – trumped up to look like a righteous war.

I don’t blame you for not wanting to agree with us – it would set a dangerous precedent – you might have to be put down.

FastEddy23 November 14, 2014 at 1:09 pm

Typical est-hole, dumbed-down, dumb-downed, child of the ’70’s retired hippie peace-nik crapola …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPDJHeX9tfs

euwe max November 14, 2014 at 6:42 pm
FastEddy23 November 17, 2014 at 12:42 pm

LOL … meaning, They don’t want to hear the truth?

euwe max November 17, 2014 at 3:07 pm

What good is the truth, if a lie will get you a 4 million dollar bonus?

He crashes planes November 14, 2014 at 10:34 am

Don’t give John a plane. Might not make it off the runway.

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shifty henry November 15, 2014 at 12:29 pm

My brother-in-law was McCain’s crew chief on a carrier before he flew in Vietnam, and he was very highly regarded by the other crew members.

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USA About 2 Collapse November 13, 2014 at 5:06 pm

McCain suffers from serious psychosis as a result of his captivity in Vietnam. His brain is all fucked up – like Obama’s – and like Graham’s. You don’t reason with these vomits. You destroy them.

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guest November 14, 2014 at 7:56 am

Hillary has a brain injury from her stroke. She should not be allowed near the White House.

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shifty henry November 15, 2014 at 12:32 pm

— or humans or small animals, or any thing that is mechanical or electrical

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You all crazy November 14, 2014 at 10:35 am

So he would be perfectly at home, here on FitsNews as a commentor.

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USA About 2 Collapse November 13, 2014 at 5:01 pm

The only way to win whatever you want to call it, is to totally wipe out the entire arab population. Ok? Get it? Otherwise, this bullshit of Obama’s and Grahams will totally bankrupt the entire nation. The military contractors don’t give a flying fuck, either. People like Graham should be thrown in chains along side of Obama and horse whipped. Can’t wait for the USA to collapse so all these out of control war mongers, liars, cheats, and thieves in government can face lynch mobs.

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Promise dese November 13, 2014 at 5:11 pm

Nobody knows what the fuk we want anymore. I thought we wanted boots on the ground, and now that we may get it, we’re worried about a “so-called” promise to not do it?

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CNSYD November 13, 2014 at 5:25 pm

In the 1940 presidental election campaign Roosevelt promised to keep
America out of the war. He stated, “I have said this before, but I shall
say it again and again and again; your boys are not going to be sent
into any foreign wars.”

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HD November 13, 2014 at 6:30 pm

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the U.S., it was no longer a “foreign war.”

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CNSYD November 13, 2014 at 8:48 pm

So has “jihad” on the US been declared?

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HD November 14, 2014 at 7:58 am

Several times, by several different groups/”leaders.” But that wasn’t my point.

CNSYD November 14, 2014 at 9:46 am

So when a country declares war on us it is a war. But when group(s) declare jihad on us it isn’t a war. Is that your point? Will the survivors of the dead know the difference?

HD November 14, 2014 at 1:55 pm

My point was just that FDR didn’t commit the U.S. to a foreign war. I agree that we are at war now, whether we want it or not.

Interesting November 14, 2014 at 5:05 pm

I think the big question is, if we simply disengage completely from the Middle East, does the “war” end?

I bet yes.

HD November 14, 2014 at 6:01 pm

Then you know nothing of the stated aims of our “adversaries.”

Interesting November 14, 2014 at 6:09 pm

They hate us for our freedoms?

HD November 14, 2014 at 6:42 pm

If you like glib, sure. There’s much more to it – but you knew that.

Interesting November 14, 2014 at 8:04 pm

Nah,not glib, I really think it’s just that simple. Leave them alone, and they leave us alone.

Occam’s razor.

HD November 14, 2014 at 8:46 pm

I can only suggest that you read up on their aims. Being left alone is hardly all there is to it. It would be so much easier if it was.

Interesting November 14, 2014 at 9:24 pm

I have “read up” on “their” aims…(which “their” are we referring to btw?)

I’m not painting an entire population with the brush used for 1% of them.

If every Middle Eastern & Arabian read the Unibombers Manifesto or simply watched American prime time TV and assumed we were all like them, we’d then actually be hated for our freedoms.

There simply is no real reason IMO for them to bother with us if we don’t bother with them. Sure, it would take some time if we just left the entire region for those directly harmed by US military action to stop hating…maybe even a full generation…but it would subside.

The “threat” of their religion/ethos is vastly overstated IMO.

Obviously I know you disagree, but with my scenario the end game is clear, with your, short of glassing the whole region it’s never ending war that helps bankrupt the nation and kill more of our young people.

TontoBubbaGoldstein November 13, 2014 at 9:26 pm

He stated, “I have said this before, but I shall
say it again and again and again; your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”

Roosevelt had been actively anticipating/preparing for/seeking war for years. While the argument can certainly be made that this was the correct course of action…there is no way in Hell that the above quote wasn’t a bald-faced lie told to the American people by FDR.

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Provoke November 13, 2014 at 11:10 pm

He knew what he was doing with the oil embargo on Japan.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 14, 2014 at 8:23 am

He knew what he was doing with the oil embargo on Japan.

Exactly.

Surprise! November 14, 2014 at 8:08 am

What a revelation!

Politicians LIE!

Damn!

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RogueElephant November 14, 2014 at 9:56 am

FDR was a Dim. You expect anything different ? SSDD.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 14, 2014 at 10:47 am

“READ MY LIPS. No new taxes!”

idcydm November 14, 2014 at 6:15 pm

He may have screwed that one up but you have to give him credit for letting Stormin Norman kick ass and take names in the first Gulf War.

euwe max November 14, 2014 at 7:25 pm

Whatever Obama wants – “we” want the opposite.

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The Colonel November 13, 2014 at 5:14 pm

“…Obama has vowed U.S. combat troops will not be returning to Iraq…”

Note to the “Commander in Chief” – we’ve had boots on the ground in Iraq continuously since 2002.

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sparklecity November 13, 2014 at 9:37 pm

You know you are stating the obvious even to the low information dweebs don’t you???

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euwe max November 13, 2014 at 9:57 pm

let’s focus on the goal – not the boot.

Stop dying for oil in the guise of “other people’s problems.”

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sparklecity November 14, 2014 at 12:54 pm

Been saying that since October 1973………………………
Nothing has really changed since that time and it looks like it probably never will; Sadly a slow demise is in the forecast unless something radically changes in respect to the energy situation .
You can have fracking and “pipelines” coming out your ears but if Saudia Arabia falls to ISIL (or even APPEARS to) the shit will hit the fan geopolitically & economically.
I’ve been thinking that maybe the French had the right idea with the foreign legion or it is time to bring back professional mercernary forces like in the 15th & 16th centuries. Or bring back the draft and see how long this shit about “boots on the ground” lasts then.
Let EXXON/Mobil,Shell,and BP take care of it on their own.
It’s going to sorta/kinda end up that way sooner or later anyway.
On another note: I am just about as tired of hearing “boots on the ground’ as I was “surge”. I flew/hauled “surgees” all over the fucking place over there and every time I hear the word “surge” in a sentence (no matter how it is used) I get a funny feeling in my stomach!!!!
All that aside, the odds are that we will end up having actual combat forces back over there and not in an advisory capacity either.
You can’t take care of everything from the air unless you kill every fucking human being (i.e.nuclear/biological/chemical/napalm) and you really can’t trust those Arab SOB’s if you want the job done right.

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euwe max November 13, 2014 at 9:56 pm

Note to the warmonger right – we stopped losing life in Iraq to bullets and bombs.

…no matter how much they itch to “get back in the fight.”

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The Colonel November 13, 2014 at 10:09 pm Reply
euwe max November 13, 2014 at 10:35 pm

noncombat-related incident.

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that’s why I said bullets and bombs.

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guest November 14, 2014 at 8:01 am

Obama declared war on the United States and euwe didn’t say a word.

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Old RC lawyer November 13, 2014 at 6:50 pm

The terror I fear the most is right here in South Carolina – the corruption in the SC Judiciary system (Queen Jean) who rules and controls other branches. Talk to the employees in Her palace. Ask lawyers that have to deal with Her.

Where are those Feds who were going to look into all of her election issues? Oh that’s right – her little friend, Bill Nettles took care of it.

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RHood2 November 13, 2014 at 7:31 pm

So what do you want to do? You always criticize. What do you propose to do? Just leave and let it become a worse mess? it was a dumb war and remains a dumb war. But you have to win it.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein November 13, 2014 at 8:15 pm

So what do you want to do? You always criticize. What do you propose to do? Just leave and let it become a worse mess? it was a dumb war and remains a dumb war. But you have to win it.

In poker, this is called “throwing good money after bad”.

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euwe max November 13, 2014 at 9:54 pm

Honor the dead with more dead.

Maybe we’ll save face… Bush’s face.

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guest November 14, 2014 at 8:04 am

Yes indeed. The Democrat Party abortion war-with the Obamacare ‘death panels’ to follow.

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 8:19 am

Republicans aren’t forced to have abortions – they choose to have them.

Smirks November 14, 2014 at 8:53 am

And then tell themselves “Well MINE was different.”

http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/anti-tales.shtml

sparklecity November 14, 2014 at 1:06 pm

Yep, Like I posted a week or two back, IF abortion becomes illegal, look for ticket sales for Air Jamaica & Air Mexico to go up!!!!

“Daddybucks” will take care of little Suzie’s or his mistrisses “problem’ with a week in Negril, Montego Bay or Cozumel fer sure!!!

euwe max November 14, 2014 at 7:11 pm

…or whine that they “didn’t realize…” so they can still lord it over others who are making the same choice.

euwe max November 14, 2014 at 7:18 pm

Do you advocate straining menstrual fluids from women’s sanitary napkins to insure that every “baby” gets the dignity of a death certificate and a Christian burial?

Or is it ok with you to flush living babies into the city sewer system?

idcydm November 14, 2014 at 8:21 am

Obama pulled them out, Obama is sending them back in.

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 7:16 pm

He’s convinced himself it’s a magnanimous gesture – as long as he doesn’t send them into combat situations.

Yep! November 13, 2014 at 11:09 pm

“sunk cost fallacy”

Those have always been the hardest business decisions I’ve had to make, admitting my mistake and moving on, not trying to “save” the leg by risking the body.

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Stare In The Mirror November 14, 2014 at 8:06 am

As you vote and will continue to vote for those who start other “dumb wars,” complain about it,then announce that now that we are there we have to “win” it.

Want to see the “problem?”

Stare in the mirror!

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 8:15 pm

But you have to win it.

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simple… and dumb.

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euwe max November 13, 2014 at 9:54 pm

Wait’ll we get a Republican in the White House!

We’ll march all over people’s little girls, and maybe fuck a few of them while we do – and for what?

$

That’s what.

Republicans call it “liberty.”

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guest November 14, 2014 at 8:06 am

You talking about lesbians and gay marriage?

$

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 8:18 am

Colonization.

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shifty henry November 15, 2014 at 12:34 pm

You probably keep a photo of General Buck Turgidson in your wallet…

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Frustrated Voter November 13, 2014 at 11:26 pm

Obama has no idea what to do.

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CorruptionInColumbia November 14, 2014 at 6:45 am

Whatever is worse for our economy and/or our country, that is the path he will most likely take.

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Tazmaniac November 14, 2014 at 8:56 am

That is what happens when you put an empty suit in a position of power. That clueless bastard couldn’t make a profit at a kid’s lemonade stand. Why would we expect him to be able to run a Country, because he has the “best and brightest” advising him?

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 7:54 am

Euwe, after writing his name on the chalkboard and pronouncing it, whirls around and asks in a clear, loud voice – “how many in here are non-conformists?”

All hands go up.

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idcydm November 14, 2014 at 8:37 am

“Where dangers threaten from every side and the smallest slackening of
attention might be fatal; in a position which requires a nerve of steel
and intense concentration – Botvinnik is in his element.”

That can not be said for our CinC.

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 7:12 pm

Well… Botvinnik was a scientist…

I prefer Najdorf’s style when they met.

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:) November 14, 2014 at 8:02 pm

lol…the problem is you’re a conformist no matter how you answer(or not) the question.

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euwe max November 14, 2014 at 8:14 pm

You could always fall on the floor, or jump out a window in reply.

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HD November 14, 2014 at 8:06 am

Question: If the U.S. were to disengage and pull back to a pure defense of its borders and leave the radical Islamists to their own devices, what would the world look like in ten years? What would our economy look like? What would the future of the human race look like?

I don’t think one needs to be able to precisely answer these questions in order to know that the policy in the premise would be madness.

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guest November 14, 2014 at 8:11 am

Democrats don’t care. Obama is trying to destroy the nation within.
You really don’t think this regime would be disappointed in another terror attack on this country? Obama could declare Martial Law.

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sparklecity November 14, 2014 at 12:57 pm

See my post on French Foreign Legion/mercernaries

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FastEddy23 December 24, 2014 at 2:30 pm

CNN reporting ISIS has shot down and captured a Jordanian pilot …

News story?

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