Panicked Pentagon Sends Land Invasion Force to Middle East
Source: msn/Daily Beast
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As many as 5,000 additional U.S. Marines are heading for the Middle East in a possible escalation of Donald Trump’s war on Iran, according to a report.
Days after Trump appeared to suggest the conflict was “done,” the Pentagon has reportedly agreed to send additional warships and troops to bolster U.S. forces in the region. U.S. administration officials have refused to rule out using boots on the ground to launch an all-out assault on the Iranian regime.
With the two-week air assault failing to bring down the regime and growing pressure from the president’s MAGA base for a quick win, the development suggests the administration is planning a change of strategy to take out Tehran.
The Wall Street Journal has claimed that the newly deployed troops include a Marine expeditionary unit with several warships and a potential landing force of 5,000 Marines. It will be part of an “Amphibious Ready Group,” reports the Journal, based on interviews with three U.S. officials.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/panicked-pentagon-sends-land-invasion-force-to-middle-east/ar-AA1Yz975
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That's just crazy talk. 
Didn’t W claim that the Iraqis were going to greet the American troops woth parades and stuff, the last time we invaded a Muslim country?
Oh, wait, they didn't do that, did they?
Why do I suddenly feel an overwhelming sense of déjà vu? 
Are they trying to turn this into another Iraq or Afghanistan before Dems throw them out in the November elections? Congress could put a stop to this idiocy.
They set the troops up for failure by doing something stupid like only sending 5,000 into a meat grinder.
Democrats win, and everyone loudly hails the massive blue wave in midterms.
The military, set up to fail by Trump, does then fail. Trump blames the Democrats. (Trump: "See, they won, and look at how many troops just died! It's clearly their fault!"
The voting populace agrees (because they always do) handing the white house back to republicans in 2028.
We've seen this playbook before. It's what they always do.
Remember the Afghanistan withdrawal? Remember Benghazi? Remember the economy every time it tanks?
It's standard GOP operating procedure. Mess things up, let democrats into office just in time for things to hit the crapper, blame the democrats, return to office to triumphantly mess things up again, this time even harder.
The geography and geology of the Iranian side of the Gulf isn't our friend. It's bushwhack city. If a dumb, former squid like me can see it, it's bad. 
They don't care how many die. They will lie AGAIN about Casualties and or deaths!! 
If you have the troops available, you are more likely to use them.
Last week I saw a report that the Dover Air Force Base mortuary was emergency hiring a number of "personal effects specialists." Their job is to sort through the personal effects of dead soldiers returned from overseas -- clean, launder, fold, sort, photograph, catalog, prepare personal effects to send them back to the families.
Trump and Hogsbreath knew weeks ago they were going to send in ground forces. It's the old adage: Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. Trump and Hogsbreath are rank amateurs. Stupid amateurs at that. Those two ignorant muthahfukahs think all they have to do is wave 5,000 young Marines at Iran and the Iranians will beg for unconditional surrender.
You can't land 5,000 young jarheads without following up immediately with artillery, fuel, tanks, armored troop carriers, water, food, ammo, trucks trucks and more trucks, and on and on and on -- did I mention fuel, water, ammo, food, trucks and more trucks, ammo, artillery, more ammo . . . . . And body bags -- lots of body bags.
Excuse me -- not "body bag" -- Human Remains Pouch -- lots of them
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what could POSSBILY go wrong 