Dempsey Rolls Out "Lily Pad" Bases For U.S. Troops In Iraq ~ THE 5TH ESTATE ASIA

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Dempsey Rolls Out "Lily Pad" Bases For U.S. Troops In Iraq

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Psychotic traitor Dempsey tries on new name for fire bases - kinder, gentler "Lily Pad" propaganda moniker as if it makes the slightest bit of difference when it comes to dead American military servicemen and women

AP VIA SFGATE
06/11/2015

NAPLES, Italy —

The Pentagon’s top general said Thursday the U.S. military’s reach could extend even further into Iraq if the anti-Islamic State campaign gains momentum, and he held out the possibility of eventually recommending to President Obama that U.S. troops take on the riskier role of calling in air strikes.

Consummate coward: Dempsey believes that

simply changing the name of will somehow

change the reality

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the White House’s announcement Wednesday that up to 450 more U.S. troops would be sent to Iraq to invigorate its flagging campaign against the Islamic State is a natural extension of U.S. assistance. He said the base the troops will set up will not produce instant results but may serve as a model to be replicated elsewhere in Iraq, possibly requiring even more U.S. troops. “The campaign is built on establishing these lily pads, if you will, that allow us to continue to encourage the Iraqi security forces (to move) forward, and as they go forward there may be a point where” additional such U.S. hubs are called for to enable the Iraqis to succeed, he told reporters traveling with him to Naples.

“Sure, we’re looking all the time at whether there might be additional sites necessary. It’s another one of the options that we’re considering.”

He added: “It’s very practical, looking at geographic locations, road networks, airfields, places where we can actually establish these hubs.”

Fire Base Berchtesgaden, Vietnam

Dempsey said he has not recommended putting U.S. troops closer to the battlefield to call in air strikes — a step that critics of the current U.S. approach say is overdue, even though it raises the risk of American casualties. But he pointedly held out the possibility that it may become necessary.

“We continue to plan for and ensure that that option is available should it be necessary to have to ensure Iraqi success,” he said, adding, “We may reach that point.”

Dempsey and Obama will be reaching this point again with their "new and improved" version "Lily Pads," as they apply mission creep at an ever increasing, transparent pace and once more as Americans sit back on their asses when it does not affect or involve their own families or friends

Dempsey said the use of American troops to call in air strikes could even happen in the push to retake Ramadi, a city lost by Iraqi forces who had not received U.S. training, or in a counteroffensive to oust the Islamic State from other key cities like Mosul or Beiji.

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