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Topic: Pentagon to Send Missiles,
400 Troops to Turkey |
Pentagon to Send Missiles,
400 Troops to Turkey
Associated Press, by Robert Burns
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Original Article
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/14/2012 9:15:36 AM
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| INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey -The U.S. will send two batteries of Patriot missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack, the Pentagon said Friday. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed a deployment order en route to Turkey from Afghanistan calling for 400 U.S. soldiers to operate two batteries of Patriots at undisclosed locations in Turkey, Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters flying with Panetta. Germany and the Netherlands have already agreed to provide two batteries of the U.S.-built defense systems and send
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Liberal like Jefferson, 12/14/2012 9:20:37 AM (No. 9065005)
What could possibly go wrong?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GOPinTN, 12/14/2012 9:24:06 AM (No. 9065011)
And it´s 1 2 3 what are we fighting for?
Don´t ask me I don´t give a d***!
Next stop is Viet Nam.
And it´s 5 6 7 so open up them pearly gates.
There ain´t no time
to wonder why
Whoopee!
We´re all gonna die.
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It´s not so easy now you´re ´The Man´ is it?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tappin52, 12/14/2012 9:32:02 AM (No. 9065033)
Where have all of the anti-war protesters gone? Can we officially retire the "Bush"s Wars" meme now? It seems to me that Obama´s history of ramping up Afghanistan, starting the Libya adventure and now the Turkey intervention pretty much closes the door on blaming Bush.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/14/2012 9:38:30 AM (No. 9065045)
Now Bam Bam will have his own war. Great legacy along with trillions of $$$ in debt.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ronaldus Magnus, 12/14/2012 9:39:10 AM (No. 9065050)
Once again, we send soldiers to protect another country´s sovereignty, and we still leave our borders wide open. Hezbollah has been detained in Mexico trying to enter the USA, but no troops on our border. With the present administration, even when rockets are launched from Tijuana & Juarez, they will blame Cheney, Bush, and Halliburton.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
civilservant, 12/14/2012 9:43:26 AM (No. 9065061)
Somebody help me find the NYT article that was posted here a few days ago that indicated that the chemical weapons tipping Syria´s rockets were from Iraq?
I have an office full of libs I need to whack over the head with it..........
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kanphil, 12/14/2012 9:46:16 AM (No. 9065068)
Turkey has a strong military and a bold fighting tradition. What can they possibly need with 400 American troops. This president is nuts.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JoniTx, 12/14/2012 9:48:29 AM (No. 9065076)
Try this, #6:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/world/middleeast/us-is-stumbling-in-effort-to-cut-syria-arms-flow.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
nimby, 12/14/2012 9:54:58 AM (No. 9065089)
US Troops have been dispatched to Turkey 2 months ago. The media sniffs it only now? Or is the administration putting this out only NOW?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Scouts Out, 12/14/2012 9:56:17 AM (No. 9065095)
Am I the only troubled by the fact we´re putting US lives in harms´ way to protect a so-called "ally" - a country run by an Islamist who recently called Israel a "terrorist state"? This feels eerily like the sale of top-of-the-line F16s to the Muslim Brotherhood-run government of Egypt. Welcome to the Obama foreign policy - embrace your enemies while giving the high hand to your most trusted allies.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
enuf8, 12/14/2012 9:59:31 AM (No. 9065104)
Read an article earlier this week that indicated 30,000 troops have been sent to the Turkey/Syria border--thru Kawait - small numbers at a time. So, are 400 more being added to the list or was the article a bit premature?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muncsdad, 12/14/2012 10:01:55 AM (No. 9065109)
#10, Irish it was that simple. But we didn´t ´sell´ the F16s to the Muslim Brotherhood, we GAVE them to thes barbaric Islamists...
The world is falling apart, America is weak and a global laughingstock and Hillary Clinton is laudd as a great Secretary of State??????
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Muncsdad, 12/14/2012 10:03:13 AM (No. 9065112)
That was supposed to be I wish... Dang IPad auto type....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
scurfie, 12/14/2012 10:04:51 AM (No. 9065116)
Our soldiers have been put in harm´s way for a reason. That reason, I believe, will become clear soon enough and if a miracle doesn´t happen I think we are looking at the start of WWIII possibly within the next year.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bg38, 12/14/2012 10:12:55 AM (No. 9065128)
Now that Obama has reinvented the US, he is moving on to the world. Hail to the Chief.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 12/14/2012 10:21:26 AM (No. 9065145)
#9, also unreported by the Obamedia are the 3,000 US troops sent back to Iraq (via Kuwait), to be followed by another 17,000.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
civilservant, 12/14/2012 10:21:58 AM (No. 9065146)
Thanks, #8......but surprise surprise........"Page not found"........
Gotta hide the evidence of perfidy, doncha know.........
God I hate libs.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
unagator, 12/14/2012 10:23:20 AM (No. 9065150)
It´s the least we can do to thank the Turks for letting the 4th ID attack Iraq through Kurdistan in 2003.
Oh wait...they didn´t. I guess everybody has kissed/bowed and made up.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
rosewater, 12/14/2012 10:31:00 AM (No. 9065168)
Obama to Send Missiles, 400 Troops to Turkey.
Fixed it
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Grambo, 12/14/2012 10:56:46 AM (No. 9065221)
Horseface is on his way to fix it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/14/2012 11:02:36 AM (No. 9065229)
Many an American soldier is dead today because the Princes of the Pentagon decided it was unnecessary to provide effective anti-rocket / anti-mortar systems at our FOBs and COPs in Afghanistan.
Worse than that....they bought the systems but didn´t budget to keep them up and working.
But we DO have $30,000.000.00 ea. surveillance balloons so that we can keep track of all the enemy that we can´t fire on.
....and GWB wasn´t much better about all this.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 12/14/2012 11:30:13 AM (No. 9065278)
Will Turkey be paying us anything? No, they won´t. Will Turkey support us in the U.N.? No. Did Turkey help us with Iraq? No. As we are, or maybe were before Obama, a Christian nation, will Turkey help tone down the Islamic beheadings, hijackings, kidnappings, killing and abuse of women? No, they won´t.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
JoniTx, 12/14/2012 12:48:20 PM (No. 9065475)
#17 - Link above still works for me.
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