Aggiedad77 » March 25th, 2016
Oh indeed and with ISIS soon to be ousted totally.....what will be left but the IMIS thugs who are terrorists from another mother IMO......boot them too I say we will soon enough.....let them not have any impact on any upcoming Iraqi elections.....either politically or militarily motivated.....Iraq doesn't need the extra headaches.....Abadi has enough to focus on right now.....git 'er done boys.....IMO Aloha Randy
Pentagon: US troops are going to be in Iraq 'for years to come'
Top Pentagon leaders are warning that the long war is going to get even longer, Business Insider reported.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford told Senate leaders that even after ISIS is defeated in Syria and Iraq, US troops will be stationed in the region for at least a few years afterward.
"I believe it’s in our national interest that we keep Iraqi security forces in a position to keep our mutual enemies on their back foot,” Mattis told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Defense. "I don’t see any reason to pull out again and face the same lesson," he added, referencing the removal of all US forces from Iraq in 2011.
In 2014, as ISIS militants seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria, one senior military officer said the rise of the terror group in the wake of US troop departures was inevitable.
http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8620/Pentagon-US-troops-are-going-to-be-in-Iraq-for-years-to-come
Top Pentagon leaders are warning that the long war is going to get even longer, Business Insider reported.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford told Senate leaders that even after ISIS is defeated in Syria and Iraq, US troops will be stationed in the region for at least a few years afterward.
"I believe it’s in our national interest that we keep Iraqi security forces in a position to keep our mutual enemies on their back foot,” Mattis told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Defense. "I don’t see any reason to pull out again and face the same lesson," he added, referencing the removal of all US forces from Iraq in 2011.
In 2014, as ISIS militants seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria, one senior military officer said the rise of the terror group in the wake of US troop departures was inevitable.
http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8620/Pentagon-US-troops-are-going-to-be-in-Iraq-for-years-to-come