The United States will deploy additional forces to Iraq and make Apache attack helicopters available to support the country's troops, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Monday in Baghdad.
President Barack Obama hailed the 2011 withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as a major accomplishment of his presidency, but the US has been steadily drawn back into the country since the Islamic State jihadist group overran swathes of territory in 2014.
Washington heads an international coalition that is carrying out strikes against IS and also providing training and other assistance to forces fighting the jihadists in both Iraq and neighboring Syria.
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Commentary by: Lynn Cheramie, Founder, Freedom Fighters of America
President Barack Obama hailed the 2011 withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as a major accomplishment of his presidency, but the US has been steadily drawn back into the country since the Islamic State jihadist group overran swathes of territory in 2014.
Washington heads an international coalition that is carrying out strikes against IS and also providing training and other assistance to forces fighting the jihadists in both Iraq and neighboring Syria.
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Did he fulfill his promise or not? I guess it's for you to decide. As for me he didn't fulfill any promise accept for the change thing. He totally screwed up America changing her forever ir did he?
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