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2014-07-03 Iraq

WH deputy national security adviser: US roles "could result in military engagements"

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Posted by Pappy 2014-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 either that or retreat like France.

Posted by newc 2014-07-03 00:17|| 2014-07-03 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 IIUC, IOW the Bammer is still adhering to his minimalist approach, + putting conditions or restrictions on any direct US military intervention on behalf of overseas US Allies, effec "leaving the battlefield" to be mainly fought over by US Allies themselves agz invading third-party protagonists + expansion-happy OWG Globalist Co-Superpowers.

Iff one is hoping to change the future by preventing Washington from geopol retreating across the World back towards CONUS-NORAM = EASTPAC, Hawaii + US West Coast; + preventing same from destroying Guam + other Pacific islands via "Earthquake/Tectonic Bombs" as
part of anti-China, anti-Nuclear Islam
"strategic/theater denial" [A2/AREA-DENIAL], LOOKS LIKE ITS GOING TO BE A LONG L-O-N-G
LLLOOOOONNNNNGGGGG HARD STRUGGLE.

Have I said "long"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-07-03 00:30|| 2014-07-03 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3
Getting "ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x92"

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-03 08:33|| 2014-07-03 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd like to see the rules of engagement these poor bastards are operating under.

Posted by Matt 2014-07-03 08:50|| 2014-07-03 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I wouldn't want to be in a squeeze play between Shi'ites and Sunnis.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-03 09:02|| 2014-07-03 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Wouldn't that be 'kinetic contact' in ~~Ministry of Truth~~ wormtongue speak?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-03 09:38|| 2014-07-03 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Matt, they probably have to tie multiple fatalities before returning fire. And even then, they are supposed to call WH to ask permission.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-03 10:09|| 2014-07-03 10:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to the president, said the US. "has a role to play in a number of different ways" that could result in military engagements in Iraq..

Yes, vectoring Russian fighter pilots from kill box engagement to kill box engagement, and providing accurate BDA could be characterized as "playing a role."

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-03 10:14|| 2014-07-03 10:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Yep we'll be in a shooting war in Iraq and the media will not say a word, the Obamaistas will not let the media in theater to report and we'll have a lot of "training accidents coming home to closed casket funerals...It will make all of our clandestine operations back in the 70s look like they were on national tv in comparison.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-07-03 13:39|| 2014-07-03 13:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Considering that this is the same Ben Rhodes who was involved with the "Benghazi video excuse," is that a big surprise?

Posted by Pappy 2014-07-03 15:45|| 2014-07-03 15:45|| Front Page Top

#11 For JohnQC:

It means that somewhere within the byte stream of this particular message, at a position that should be the first byte of an encoded character, the UTF-8 decoder encountered a 0x92 byte. In the Windows-1252 (or cp1252) character encoding, the default
character encoding of Windows systems in the US, byte value 0x92
corresponds to U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.

Posted by Pholuper Dribble8982 2014-07-03 19:39|| 2014-07-03 19:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Phlouper, if Fred would justÇáÅÚáÇä ÇáÚÇáãì áÍÞæÞ ÇáÅäÓÇäould solve the problem. Thanks.

Posted by KBK 2014-07-03 20:39|| 2014-07-03 20:39|| Front Page Top

#13 s/ áÍÞæÞ ÇáÅä/ÇáÅÚáÇä/, sorry

Posted by KBK 2014-07-03 20:42|| 2014-07-03 20:42|| Front Page Top

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