US congressional lawmakers are skeptical about the feasibility of sending 450 military for Iraq
US congressional lawmakers are skeptical about the feasibility of sending 450 military for Iraq
06/11/2015 10:00 GMT
Follow-up -oreet – questioned the number of lawmakers in the US Congress on the feasibility of President Barack Obama’s decision to send up to 450 US military to Iraq to train and assist Iraqi forces.
He said a senior lawmaker in the Armed Services Committee House of Representatives Adam Smith that “the training year who are willing to fight Daash an important part of the task of fighting Daash but only send 450 military will not change the equation dramatically.”
But Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, a veteran who participated in the war on Iraq, has criticized the Obama administration’s decision, describing it as “an attempt to compensate for Obama’s decision to withdraw US troops in 2011″.
Hunter stressed the need to strengthen the Iraqi forces fighting US troops and said that “what is needed is to support Iraq through the deployment of US special operations forces are combat roles.”
On his part, Democratic Rep. Chris Fano Hollen expressed concern about the increased participation of the United States in the war against gangs Daash in Iraq and warned that the administration’s decision to send additional military to Iraq, “has been in the end the United States to another ground war.”
But White House spokesman said that US forces involved in ground combat operations in Iraq “is not on the table,” although he did not rule out the deployment of US military specialists on the ground identifying targets for air strikes in the future.
Obama announced his intention to training and arming of Iraqi forces to accelerate through the Group of Seven major industrialized nations summit in Olmanaa.a / h
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