AFTER PRESIDENT OBAMA announced on Monday that he would deploy 250 additional special operations troops to Syria, State Department spokesperson John Kirby tried to deny that Obama had ever promised not to send “boots on the ground” there.
“There was never this ‘no boots on the ground,’” said Kirby. “I don’t know where this keeps coming from.”
The problem for Kirby was that Obama has repeated the promise at least 16 times since 2013:
For instance, on August 30, 2013, Obama said: “We’re not considering any boots-on-the-ground approach.”
On September 10, 2013, he said: “Many of you have asked, won’t this put us on a slippery slope to another war? One man wrote to me that we are ‘still recovering from our involvement in Iraq.’ A veteran put it more bluntly: ‘This nation is sick and tired of war.’ My answer is simple: I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria.”
On September 7, 2014, he said: “In Syria, the boots on the ground have to be Syrian.”
Saddle up boys, we're going back in.
no shit hans politicians lie
>>72448596
It's kinda funny that your image might be entirely right. Spec ops troops wear civvie clothing, to better blend in with the natives.
>>72448596
>“There was never this ‘no boots on the ground,’” said Kirby. “I don’t know where this keeps coming from.”
Obama has always wantedto put boots on the ground in syria
what stopped them was when Cameron got voted down in the UK to put military in syria. then obama pussied out in the US and didnt put it to vote
kerry had been going around beating war drums for syria. this was like 2-3 years ago
i don't think its obama lying as much as it is that he says so much different shit that he can't even keep track of it anymore
>>72448778
Nice, I'm in the middle of enlisting in the Marines. At this point I'm ready to go to war, at least I won't have to put up with liberals for a little while.
>>72449692
That's called lying anon.
>>72448596
Is it really such a bad thing? We'll be having a bunch of Green Berets teach the durkas to aim down the sights, Ramirez and call in fixed-wing support. Sounds like work and fun for the SF community.
>>72448596
Why are News Column comics so fucking unfunny.
But yes this is a violation of Syria's sovereignty and a violation of the US constitution.
>>72448778
I want to enlist to see the fun
>>72449892
yeah, but i don't think he even planned it. its not like this was ll a conspiracy, i mean he was lying in the sense that he's a pathological liar. shit just flies out of his mouth without any sense of self-censor ship. remember the 'if i had a son, he'd be trayvon,' while in the earliest stages of an investigation
>>72448596
you can't compare special operations troops to regular forces
>>72450013
Do you think the US gov or the people care?
If you join the army it's probably because you think war is thrilling, if you think you're fighting for freedom or whatever then lol
Please stop overthrowing shitty governments and replacing them with even shittier ones.
It was your charming quirk but after Libya its become tiresome.
>>72448778
FUCK YEAH
>>72450013
Because literal interpretation using zany prop is top tier comedy LOL brb Amy Schumer is on TV
>>72450063
Oh yeah, I definitely don't think he intended to lie. I think he's just and idealist like most the retards on the left and he's realizing his views don't fit into reality.
>>72450013
Sinking boats don't have sovereignty
>>72448596
>politicians say one thing and do another
what else is new?
>>72448596
'boots on the ground' is shorthand for a large conventional force, not to be taken literally
he's not going to send a conventional army of tens of thousands of troops, but special forces will be used
>>72450170
lets call all soldiers "special forces" then.
>>72448778
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>>72450444
>wanting tot fight Assad
What the fuck is wrong with you?
So when are we going to hear the details about all the special operations our commandos have been carrying out in Syria?
5 years? 10?
>>72450543
I don't, that doesn't really change my statement.
>>72450444
For now, I honestly think we need boots on the ground. I just think it's funny that he prolongs it because of his retarded promises to the dumbass liberals.
>>72450543
Don't take it so personally, if the unmarried fanatics want to fight we've created the perfect furball for them to duke it out in.
>>72448596
Hillary looks like she's going to lose.
Better start another war before the election.
>>72450482
when people back home cry about muh veterans they think of regular troops. they don't think about SOF guys who routinely conduct these kinds of operations and to whom ISIS faggots are like target practice
>>72450680
Better than wasting your life bitching on pol.
>>72450723
>giving Trump the chance to play up his isolationist policies
>tying your party to more M.E. conflict
>>72450819
inshallah :^)
>>72449830
Haha, good luck with that. Consider that the only way COs make it anymore is by sticking to the liberal party line. Have fun at your equality seminars.
>>72450737
They're not fighting ISIS, they're fighting the government ISIS wants to remove. Competence is not the problem here.
Hillary gets elected, the CIA kills Assad, and then the real goatfuck begins
>>72450737
You are somewhat confused: Obama's Special Operations people will be training whatever will be the new ISIS. It might be that they will mop up ISIS proper now that it's clearly ineffective, but check out how many al-Ciada people transferred to ISIS when that upgrade was teleased.
>>72450215
that image has got to be the most retarded of all cherry pickings i could possible imagine. i almost thought it was satire for a second
>>72450737
Really? Aren't all American soldiers, heroes when they return home to fuck the (black) prom queen?
>>72448778
WAR!
And this is why I told their "Air farce" to GO FUCK THEMSELVES
I dont work for frauds or someone trying to FUCK ME OVER BUT GOOD!
>>72452128
>that image has got to be the most retarded of all cherry pickings i could possible imagine. i almost thought it was satire for a second
