The United States has set a limit on the number of troops it will send to Iraq. The present cap is 3,870. Except that is not accurate. There are more troops in Iraq than that. It’s just that the Pentagon won’t admit it – or even tell us how many troops are there. For example, the military spokesman in Baghdad who wasn’t allowed to say how many troops we have in Iraq isn’t even there himself – or at least he isn’t counted in the 3,870 cap.
The only reason we found out that the 3,870 troop cap isn’t real – and that there are more troops than that in Iraq – was that somebody who wasn’t in Iraq (i.e., wasn’t counted toward the troop cap) was killed last week in an ISIS rocket attack on the fire base he was at. A question: Since he wasn’t in Iraq, I wonder if he was getting combat pay when ISIS killed him – in combat – in Iraq.1
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