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Perry: “I Would Send Troops Back Into Iraq.”

That would be another invasion.

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Perry: "I Would Send Troops Back Into Iraq."
Zeke Miller

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry went awfully far in attacking President Barack Obama's foreign policy in tonight's ABC/Yahoo News debate, pledging to return U.S. troops to Iraq.

"I would send troops back into Iraq," he said moments ago, saying that he didn't want U.S. sacrifices to be in vain.

The last U.S. troops left the country last month, and the status of forces agreement giving the U.S. the authority to remain in the country expired at the end of the year. Without a new Status of Forces agreement, Perry's policy would amount to another invasion of the country.

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  • This is the best you can do Texas?

    R.T. Firefly
    4 months ago
  • R.T. Firefly thinks Perry: "I Would Send Troops Back Into... is Fail  about 4 months ago
  • billpostmus thinks Perry: "I Would Send Troops Back Into... is WTF  about 4 months ago
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  • That's one of the reasons WE will never send him into the White House.

    glenchilada
    4 months ago
  • Ugh. “Literally the speed of light” …literally Rick? The speed of light. Literally, you sound like an idiot.  Also, I'm pretty sure it wasn't only men that lost their lives in Iraq…

    carolf3
    4 months ago
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  • Chris Johanesen thinks Perry: "I Would Send Troops Back Into... is Fail  about 4 months ago
  • this just shows that Rick Perry has no idea about how to deal with the middle east. All of these men talk about war without putting faces to all the men and women that they send to fight. I see those faces on a daily basis, those are my brothers and sisters in arms. No I do not want these deaths to be in vain. But I would rather we not be in a situation that we have no business in in the first place. This shows Gov. Perry's ignorance and people need to realize the things these men are saying..

    filmstarsean
    4 months ago
  • filmstarsean thinks Perry: "I Would Send Troops Back Into... is Fail  about 4 months ago
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