I will not commit US troops to another ground war, says Obama

WASHINGTON: The United States won't send its troops to Iraq to battle an alternate ground war, US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday furthermore convinced his top general to clarify his position on this issue. 

"As your Commander-in-Chief, I won't submit you and whatever remains of our military to battling an alternate ground war in Iraq," Mr Obama pronounced. "We'll utilize our air power. We will prepare and prepare our accomplices. We will prompt them and we will support them." 

Executive of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that if airstrikes did not demonstrate viable enough against the IS radical gathering, he would propose putting ground troops in Iraq. Anyhow an announcement issued by his office on Wednesday said that like President Obama, the general likewise accepted it must be the Iraqis' battle. 

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"The director doesn't accept there is a military prerequisite for our consultants to go with Iraqi powers into battle," the announcement said. 

The director's office clarified that the general had just said in his confirmation that, "In the event that we achieve the point where I accept our counselors ought to go hand in hand with Iraqi troops on assaults against particular ISIL (now known as Seems to be) targets, I will propose that to the President." 

Gen Dempsey's prior articulation repudiated the promise President Obama had made to his country while withdrawing US troops from Iraq in 2011 that he would never re-send them. 

Instantly after Gen. Dempsey's announcement, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the director was just discussing a scope of alternatives for Mr Obama, and not about recommitting ground troops. 

On Wednesday, President Obama went to the Centcom home office in Tampa, Florida, to examine his military technique for battling activists in Iraq and Syria with his top commanders. 

In comments at the Macdill Air Force Base in Tampa, Mr Obama said he accepted that "after 10 years of enormous ground organizations, it is more successful to utilize our one of a kind abilities as a part of backing of accomplices on the ground so they can secure their own particular nations' prospects". 

This, he said, was "the main result that will succeed over the long haul". He said that in the battle against the radicals, the United States will lead a wide coalition of nations who have a stake in this battle.