Pentagon Admits Limited Military Personnel Now On the Ground in Libya
- Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:19pm by
Billy Hallowell
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WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — President Obama has repeatedly pledged that American military members will not be on the ground in Libya. Despite this promise, for the second time the government is admitting having personnel on the ground. Fox News has more about this former pledge:
From the East Room of the White House on March 18, [Obama] said: “The United States is not going to deploy ground troops into Libya.”
Several days later at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., he said: “I said that America’s role would be limited, that we would not put ground troops into Libya, that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners. Tonight, we are fulfilling that pledge.”
But, alas, the circumstances and the decisions surrounding them have changed.
The Pentagon says it has four troops in the war-torn nation. Spokesman Capt. John Kirby confirmed that there are troops working there to assist in the rebuilding of the U.S. Embassy. According to Fox News, these unidentified individuals are working with the State Department’s chief of mission to determine how best to reopen the embassy.
The building, located in Tripoli, was badly damaged during the ongoing battle between Muammar Qaddafi’s forces and the citizens who have become known as the “rebels.”
On Monday, Kirby said the four include two who specialize in disposing of explosives. He says the four are not there in any offensive or defensive military capacity, but strictly to help the State Department.
The first time that there was an admission of troops being sent for on-the-ground work was back in March when Marines rescued an Air Force pilot who had ejected over eastern Libya:
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Comments (83)
Junter
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:50pmBarry lies again! no news there.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:35pmIs there one person in America who didn’t see this coming ?
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:46amWHERE IS NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND OBAMA? yet another lie from the perpetual liar
Report Post »guido.cavalcanti
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:45pmOh Gee! Do we really get to rebuild yet another nation! We’ll just build a light rail system for them and give every man, woman and child an iPad with a 3G connection and all of their problems will be solved. At the rate we rebuild nations, I‘m sure there’s a long line of nations just crossing their fingers just waiting for us to invade.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 4:31pmIt looks like they are just re-opening an Embassy!
Report Post »louise
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:39pmwish we were voting this November 4th, not next.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:13pmIsn’t that the truth. It would be too easy.
Report Post »W@nd@
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:32pmin what context do you mean limited personel?
Report Post »limited in scope
limited in #
limited in…what exactly ?
with this administration it is truly a toss up!
MONICNE
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 4:34pmThese experts and security staff work at the Embassy and are limited to the security, protection and defense of the US Ambassador and Staff. Limited to maintain secure the property and possessions of the USA and any American interests at the embassy.
TEA
Report Post »briefer
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:15pmAmerican embassies are American soil. Every embassy we have is protected by the US Military.
Report Post »DieHard
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 9:56amShhhh, don’t let the truth get in the way of a good narative.
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:59pmEveryone is missing the bigger question. WHEN is Congress going to start the impeachment process for the big O???? From Project Gun Runner, To Libya, To the unconstitutional Health Care Law, to countless other violations of our Constitution that demand impeachment of this President.
Report Post »bigbear_awake
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:13pmYes when are they
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:19pmIt will NEVER happen.. As long as the New World Order Bakers are running the show.. Impeachment proceedings won’t even make committee
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:43pmExactly…WHY? WHERE is Congress hiding. BO has broken MANY laws, yet Boehner & co do NOTHING!!!
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:01pmYes, those evil New World Order BAKERS…. *snorts* They are going to make cookies and you WILL eat them. Great, we are being taken over by the Girl Scouts.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:19pmIt would be a waste of time and taxpayer money, because it would take a 2/3 vote of the Senate and Republicans do not have a majority of the Senate.
Report Post »kalli
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:44pmAmen to that! Impeachment should have already begun before now.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 5:31pmMany of us would love to know the answer to that question.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:59pmEveryone knew from the get-go troops would be on the ground, it was a lie from the start– These people have the idea that they above everyone else. In reality they are worried that a lot of people out here are seeing through their lies. It will get nasty ………………
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:55pmI don’t know how you can be a lib and defend obama. Now he has people on the ground in Lybia, something that he said he wouldn’t do, he still has ALL the wars going onnthat Bush started after you elected him because he said he would stop. Gitmo is bigger and better than ever, even though it would be closed in a year. At least an Ostrich takes his head out of the sand once in a while.
Report Post »Do you ever think that Obama tells you these things just to let you know who is in power?????
qpwillie
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:07pmThis clearly makes 0bama in violation of the War Powers Act of 1973. Another impeachable offense committed which this dictator will get away with.
Without enforcement, laws are useless.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:53pmBlazers support tyrants and dictators. No freedom for you!
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:58pmExrepublisheep,
Report Post »Why do you say Blazers support 0bama? You know that’s not true.
The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:25pmI think he is saying that if we have a problem with our guys being on the ground and helping the rebels…then we must be for that tyrant/dictator Gadhaffi.
Report Post »pandora
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:17pmThe answer is not that we support anyone…we do however support the Constitution, and the fact that Obama cannot – does not have the power – to send troops to a war without the permission of congress. This president has no respect for the constitution or congress. Impeachment is the best thing we can do for him short of life in prison.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 4:46pmLiberals support anti-war protests … unless a liberal is in office … hypochrites to the end.
Report Post »sb36695
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:53pm“You lie!”
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:52pmLies. Lies. Lies all the time from obama. He doesn’t care about anything we stand for. He hates us, hates our freedom, hates our Constitution & our troops. He is the epitome of betrayal of trust. God in heaven I wish someone in Congress would have the guts to start impeachment proceedings. I wish they had the guts to follow impeachment all the way through the system.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:47pmCan someone explain to me what Obama’s purpose is in having us in Libya? Why does he hate Gaddafi? I have not been able to figure this one out from the person who apologized to everyone on behalf of America’s sovereignty. Why aren’t the Lefties going insane over this?
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:23pmI hate Obama (hear that FBI guys?) but him liking or hating Gadhaffi has nothing to do with it. The people of Libya hate him and various Muslim networks have timed their propaganda program well. If he is out, then our guys are there to try to pick and support a leader from among the rebels who will be for a democracy and who won’t hate us…or all the money we’re bound to throw their way.
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:46pmWow, for someone who blasted President Bush on his war policies, obama sure does wanna help out the muslim brotherhood in their quest for domination. Wonder when they’ll mosey on over this way to set up shop…? And lie, obama does it better than anyone I know…no wonder I can’t stand to listen to any of his many stupid speeches.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:49pmWho can make war with the BEAST?
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:42pmReminds me of an article I read about the alleged plan of Obama to unionize the military — ???
http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/wall-street-insider-president-obamas-plan-to-unionize-the-american-military/
And yes, watch the coming fiasco re the UN wanting a Palestinian state this month and the games Obama regime will play……….
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:39pm“.Pentagon Announces Limited Military Personnel Now On the Ground in Libya”
So when will we “announce” Limited ICBM Intervention”?
This is so…BS. The global elites and Pentagon dont realize that America is watching its Military being hijacked by the U.N. to drain trillions from U.S. taxpayers in order to put a political puppet in Libya. This is how Civil Wars are started — by a greedy few, underestimating the resolve of those great masses, of whom they intended to prey upon.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:41pmOh, he knows exactly what he’d doing — breaking the US military’s back, so that his jihadi buddies get a free run elsewhere!
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:38pmNow who the hell is paying for this and who approved it?!?!?!?!?!?! Damnit barack, I know you want to create as many Vietnams as possible but this needs to stop! We can‘t afford this and how do we defend a people when we don’t know who the enemy is?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:36pmHow many different ways can you say — stupid not learning fm mission creeps elsewhere?
Report Post »Animator
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:36pmOnly 4 huh? A friend of mine’s niece came back from being deployed, on the ground, in Libya four weeks ago. There are way more than four forces deployed on the ground over there.
She said they were scared to death when the Libyans would come running up to them. They weren’t able to determine immediately whether they were friend or foe.
Another Obama lie.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:34pmI thought we would have “no boots on the ground” .. oh I never believed it but wasn’t that what we were told .. time for CONGRESS to demand accountablity on what is happening in Libya TODAY!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:40pmThey need to move over to support Israel if Egypt gets wacky!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:56pmThat won’t happen under Obama . he would move them into EGYPT to take out Israel. HE is no friend of Israel .. Obama is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in the middle east … that is what this is about. We are on the wrong side!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:01pmNo Boots. Just feet.
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:33pmAnd when Obama’s terrorist friends in Libya are done with our troops and no longer need their help, what is going to become of them? Why do I get the feeling Obama wants just enough US troops in harms way to hand over to the enemy? This fool can do a lot of damage between now and January 2013. He is no friend of Israel or America.
Report Post »ConstitutionalPatriot
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:33pmHonestly does it matter if we were on the ground??? We were using million dollar a shot rockets, drones, and weapons to help what you will learn are the Muslim Brotherhood take control of Libya now that they have control of Egypt.
Does any one else remember who the last big military’s that worked hand and hand with the Muslim Brotherhood? First it was the Nazi German’s, then it was the Communist Russian’s and now The Obama Administration. Are we playing connect the dots yet??
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:41pmExactly!!! and barack just keeps providing suppoert for them. barack has go to go!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:32pmSo what now, many of us here at the Blaze and elsewhere already figured troops would be sent in soon enough, and how long will it be until more and more troops are sent in and then become more targets in the region for the terrorists? How many more need to die in the war Mr Obama started? How many more times will we be lied to in this and all other matters?
Anyone want to guess until how long we have troops in Egypt helping to plot the invasion of Israel with the blessing of Mr Obama?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:54pm@SNOW … talk about awakening a “sleeping giant” … I think that Obama would be surprised by the response of the American public at that event …
TEA!
I stand with ISRAEL
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 3:10pm@CatB — that is exactly what I have warned is coming, the people of America are as Yamamoto declared with the attack of Pearl Harbor came before the official declaration of war:
“Gentlemen, I fear we have awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
One thing that gravely concerns me though, is that in reading a recent book (old one I was given) about a Roman event, is that the old Roman senate traded their lawful authority (power) vested to them to the cause of maintaining order in the empire (control).
Thus the first Czar and Emperor was set in place, old Julios himself.
I can easily see how in short order, when civil disturbances flame out of apperant control via those of the unions and radicals, with the Tea Party being blamed, the people of the nation or just those of Congress will cry out to Obama to restore the order of the nation.
Emergency legislation passes to stop the madness, and gives him unlimited authority.
Van Jones: “Bottom up, Top down, Inside out.”
The people panic and cry in alarm for stability (bottom up), Obama promises stability (top down), the tea party and conservatives are the scapegoats (inside out).
Dictatorship in a day and to the applause of most people.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:31pmSo, obama lied? What a shock.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:30pmWhy are we rebuilding the embassy? This is a waste of taxpayer money. Get our troops out now.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 12, 2011 at 2:28pmThe announcement of FOUR U.S. troops in country is meant specifically and exclusively for Liberals who are stupid enough to buy it.
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