Out of Iraq...

but not really...

Good thing he's overseas vacationing again.  President Obama has some 'splaining to do once he returns home to continue his service here as our wartime president.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon acknowledged on Monday that it had established a base in northern Iraq staffed solely by American Marines, a disclosure that followed an Islamic State rocket attack over the weekend that killed one Marine and wounded several others.

 

The White House has contended that the military is not conducting a combat mission in Iraq.

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In a conference call with reporters, Colonel Warren said the Marines were not combat forces because they were positioned at the outpost to provide “force protection” to American military advisers working alongside Iraqi troops.

 

“They won’t kind of go off and conduct any type of mission on their own,” he said, referring to the Marines. “They don’t really have that capability anyways. They’re just providing coverage, right? They’re providing fire support coverage for the several thousand Iraqi soldiers and the several hundred advisers.”

 

The Pentagon said that 100 to 200 Marines were at the outpost, and that they were from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit. They “began moving into Iraq within the last couple of weeks,” according to a statement from the public affairs office of Operation Inherent Resolve, the name of the American mission in Iraq.

 

Critics of the administration contend that it does not want to say the forces in Iraq are “in combat” because it would run counter to President Obama’s assertion that he ended combat missions there in 2010.

It really doesn't take a genius, or a student of history, to understand why the Founders set up our system of checks and balances to include the American people as the government.

We decide, through our elected legislative representatives, if we want to war or not. By bypassing Congress on our past dozen military excursions, we leave the American people out of the decision-making process and priority-setting process in whether we would prefer to invest our financial resources in our defense here at home, or in feeding our military a blank check to destroy the world in order to save it.

President Obama was elected in 2008 with a singular mandate: get us out of Iraq.

He can pretend, and lie to the American people, but he failed on that basic mission. AND... undertook many military missions that nobody here at home ever would have authorized.

We need to start discussing, out in the open, whether the American people support the drone military assassination program; whether we support extending the Mideast military wars into North African countries; whether we want to spend our taxpayer dollars abroad playing policeman to the world.

Iraq is broke.
No sense in throwing good money after bad, even if we did indeed break the country.

Come back home Mr. President, and explain how long this military base in northern Iraq will be staffed by Marine "advisors" and also tell us if you have any books about the history of VietNam queued up on your booklist.

Get reading. You could have been a lame duck, visiting, promoting and partying the final year away, but nooooo. The call for pre-emptive (as opposed to defensive) wars is just too great, it seems.

What a fool he is.
Still thinking our guns and military are somehow "helping"...


A Change is Gonna Come... sooner rather than later. Mark my words.