Iraq never requested FPSA ground operations!

BAGHDAD, Iraq (PNN) - October 28, 2015 - Iraqi officials expressed surprise yesterday with the announcement from Fascist Police States of Amerika Defense Secretary Ash Carter that FPSA ground troops were going to carry out “direct action on the ground,” which he clarified as meaning combat against ISIS, in both Iraq and Syria. It’s not just that the FPSA has been denying plans for combat operations on the ground in Iraq for over a year, but that Iraq has similarly, repeatedly, said such action was unwelcome, and apparently was never consulted before Carter announced The Pentagon’s intentions to the FPSA Congress.

International operations in Iraq have been a topic of considerable discussion lately. Iraq’s position is it doesn’t need foreign boots on the ground, but it’ll take air strikes from whomever. The FPSA had been angry at the suggestion Russia might start to carry out such strikes, and informed Russia “Iraq doesn’t want” its help, even though Iraq appears to loudly disagree.

In that context, the unilateral FPSA announcement of combat operations on the ground in Iraq is inevitably being viewed as more Amerikan dictation of policy in a war where it has repeatedly told the Iraqis they expect them to “take the lead.” Iraqi officials are sticking to their old position, too, saying they have enough ground troops and neither need nor want the FPSA to start doing that again.

While FPSA ground operations might be a near-term boon for the Iraqi government, they would almost certainly leave the government again heavily dependent on Amerikan occupation forces for security in the long run, and risk confrontations with politically powerful Shi’ite militias who have been a major force in resisting ISIS to this point.