Starting about ten days ago, various mainstream media outlets broadcast reports that the Pentagon had presented a plan to send an additional 120,000 US troops to Iraq, Saudi Arabia and a few other spots near Iran. Even though President Trump denied the reports, the mainstream media kept reporting that there would be 120,000 troops going to the Persian Gulf region. Then we got a series of Democrat politicians denouncing the President for sending these troops to the region without approval by Congress. The President was also denounced by the media and the Democrats for fomenting a war with Iran. Bozos like my own states senator Chris Murphy kept announcing that this plan for 120,000 was just part of Trump's move to start a war.
Tonight, we heard the actual news. The USA is sending 1500 additional troops to the Middle East region. A big chunk of these troops are engineers who are going to fortify current American bases so that they will be harder to attack. Another group is going with Patriot missile batteries. Patriot missiles are totally defensive in nature. They are used to shoot down incoming missiles launched at American bases. There is also a fighter squadron being sent to the region. These planes are principally designed to defend against air attacks. So the deployment is almost exclusively defensive; it is obviously not intended to be used to start a war. It is also only about 1% of the size of last week's big mainstream media reports.
To put it mildly, last week's reports were Fake News. I know that the media will no doubt claim that the original plan was for 120,000 troops but they cut it to 1500 when the news of the deployment leaked out. That would just be more Fake News.
Tonight, we heard the actual news. The USA is sending 1500 additional troops to the Middle East region. A big chunk of these troops are engineers who are going to fortify current American bases so that they will be harder to attack. Another group is going with Patriot missile batteries. Patriot missiles are totally defensive in nature. They are used to shoot down incoming missiles launched at American bases. There is also a fighter squadron being sent to the region. These planes are principally designed to defend against air attacks. So the deployment is almost exclusively defensive; it is obviously not intended to be used to start a war. It is also only about 1% of the size of last week's big mainstream media reports.
To put it mildly, last week's reports were Fake News. I know that the media will no doubt claim that the original plan was for 120,000 troops but they cut it to 1500 when the news of the deployment leaked out. That would just be more Fake News.
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