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Let's just be clear about this. The article states Hagel ordered the aircraft carrier moved. A bit disingenuous. It's Obama's call. Even if he limits actions to airstrikes, all those anti-aircraft weapons the US turned over to Iraq are still there. Hate to see more loss of any life there, but especially US servicemen. And if only drones are used, there will be collateral damage, as per usual. Let the factions there fight it out. Wonder which of them will take over the Taj Mahal, i.e., US Embassy complex, construction costs of which have now reached $850 million stuffed in the pockets of Big Military/Construction.
At 440,000 square meters, it is the largest and most expensive embassy in the world and is nearly as large as Vatican City.[1] It employs 15,000 people and cost $750 million to build. The Embassy opened in January 2009 following a series of construction delays. It replaced the previous embassy, which opened July 1, 2004 in Baghdad's Green Zone in a former Palace of Saddam Hussein.[2] (Wikipedia).
In addition to that $750 million, "The State Department is planning to spend $115 million to upgrade the the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad only three and a half years after American diplomats moved into the massive $700 million facility, reports Walter Pincus of the Washington Post."
(2012)
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-embassy-baghdad-money-2012-6#ixzz34eMpRj00
As of 2 days ago, evacuation was planned. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/11/u-s-embassy-prepares-for-possible-evacuation-as-militants-take-control-in-iraq/
All Obama should do is expedite evacuation - get all Americans into that bloody fort called an embassy, and chopper them out. It's the bloody fall of Saigon again.
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