Obama administration sending 130 more advisers to Iraq (drip drip creep creep)

[morningfog]

The Obama administration is sending more than 100 U.S. advisers into the city of Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq to salvage the humanitarian disaster unfolding there, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports.

President Obama previously ordered up to 300 military advisers to Iraq in mid-June to assist Iraqi security forces and assess intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets in the region, 250 of whom are now on the ground. But there are no advisers in Erbil, close to where much of the fighting is taking place between the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and ISIS.

The advisers would, among other things, help manage the flow of arms deliveries to the Kurds, coordinate air strikes, and work on ways to help evacuate a group of religious minorities who are trapped on a mountain by ISIS without food or water.

There are 705 Americans who have been sent to Iraq to help advise Iraqi troops and provide security to the U.S. embassy, Martin reports. The war powers letters sent to Congress allow Mr. Obama to send up to 775 personnel. As of the beginning of July the U.S. has sent 650 Americans to help deal with the ongoing crisis, on top of 100 members from the U.S. Office of Security Cooperation who are regularly in Iraq to handle arms sales.

The president has repeatedly pledged he will not return combat troops to the country.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-administration-considers-sending-more-advisers-to-iraq/

That pledge is so hollow.

ETA: Officials: US to send 130 more advisers to Iraq

The Pentagon is sending 130 more military advisers to northern Iraq to help local forces in their escalating fight against Islamic militants, officials said Tuesday.

The move shows the Obama administration is weighing the impact and implications of several days of targeted airstrikes on the Islamic State fighters and how that has affected U.S.-backed Kurdish forces opposing them in northern Iraq.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-may-send-more-advisers-to-iraq/2014/08/12/590091c2-2245-11e4-8b10-7db129976abb_story.html

[Autumn]

1. This all smells so fishy.

[morningfog]

2. US to send 130 more advisers to Iraq

The Pentagon is sending 130 more military advisers to northern Iraq to help local forces in their escalating fight against Islamic militants, officials said Tuesday.

The move shows the Obama administration is weighing the impact and implications of several days of targeted airstrikes on the Islamic State fighters and how that has affected U.S.-backed Kurdish forces opposing them in northern Iraq.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-may-send-more-advisers-to-iraq/2014/08/12/590091c2-2245-11e4-8b10-7db129976abb_story.html

[gyroscope]

3. They called them advisers in Vietnam too

many if not most of these 'advisers' were taking active part in combat operations while being killed or injured. hope and change ahahahaha.

[leftstreet]

4. So the air strikes failed?

What's the deal?

[morningfog]

5. Also, "no advisers in Erbil???"

U.S. officials also stressed that the American intervention was narrowly aimed at the protection of American diplomats and officials living in Irbil, where the large U.S. consulate has swelled with evacuees from the embassy in Baghdad and where the U.S. military runs a joint operations center alongside Kurdish forces.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/us-airstrikes-target-islamic-state-militants-in-northern-iraq/2014/08/08/a7a659d8-1efd-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html

It's coming in fast and thick now.