Build up to WW3 - OBAMA Tells Congress He Is DEPLOYING U.S. TROOPS to IRAQ

OBAMA Tells Congress He Is DEPLOYING U.S. TROOPS to IRAQThe United State is deploying up to 275 military troops to Iraq to protect the U.S. Embassy and other American interests and is considering sending a contingent of special forces soldiers as Iraq struggles to repel a rampant insurgency, officials said Monday. The White House insisted anew the U.S. would not be sending combat troops and thrusting America into a new Iraq war.President Barack Obama, in a formal report to Congress, said the troops in in the deployment he was announcing would be equipped for combat and would remain in Iraq until the security situation improved. About 160 troops are already in Iraq, including 50 Marines and more than 100 Army soldiers. Some of those soldiers have only recently arrived. Pentagon Sends Another Ship Into Arabian Gulf Amid Iraq Turmoil USS Mesa Verde will join other U.S. naval ships already in the gulfThe Pentagon is sending another ship to the Arabian Gulf to give President Barack Obama "additional options to protect American citizens and interests in Iraq," an official said Monday.The amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde — which carries Osprey combat helicopters — will join other U.S. naval ships already in the gulf, including the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.According to one senior defense official, "If the President orders airstrikes, we have plenty of firepower in the Gulf."The State Department on Sunday said the US would remain "fully equipped to carry out its national security mission" in Iraq despite the evacuation of some embassy workers, as Republicans slammed the Obama administration over the growing Middle East crisis.Responding to reports that embassy workers will be evacuated in the face of the continuing Islamic insurgency, the Pentagon confirmed some staff were being relocated.But State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "Overall, a substantial majority of the US embassy presence in Iraq will remain in place and the embassy will be fully equipped to carry out its national security mission."The Pentagon press secretary, Rear Admiral John Kirby, issued a statement which said: "At the request of the State Department, the US military is providing security assistance for our diplomatic facilities in Baghdad.Senator Says ISIS Held Territory in Iraq Will Be Next 9/11 "Staging Area"Obama administration may use crisis to launch attacks inside Syria"Iraq and Syria combined are going to be the staging area for the next 9/11 if we don't do anything about it," Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN Sunday. "If Bagdad falls, if the central government falls, a Al-Qaeda in Iraq.... was on their back, just about gone," Graham said. "They got what they wanted. 'I ended the war in Iraq and I'm going to end of the war in Afghanistan.' blackwater for airstrikes against ISIS, the CIA and Saudi created terror group advancing on the Iraqi capitol.U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the aircraft carrier USS H.W. Bush to the Persian Gulf and Obama said on Friday the United States will "do our part" to drive back ISIS, described as a "terrorist army" NATO Run Secret Terror Army in Iraq and Syria The ultimate objective is taking down all contenders and reconfiguring the world order The Salafist horde currently making its way to Baghdad from northern Iraq is a secret and specialized army of terrorists funded, armed and supported by Saudi Arabia, the Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, and NATO.Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the caliphate and its partners in Riyadh and Doha paramilitary jihadists from the battlefields of Syria to the killing fields of Iraq. For the fossilized monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar Sunni Islam and thus defeat their longtime Shia Islam rivals, West the financial and global elite are playing a long-running game of conquer and divide, a technique long used by the British Empire. British Empire Conquers the Middle EastConflict threatens output in OPEC's second-biggest crude producer