President Obama ordered another 615 U.S. troops to Iraq Wednesday as the Middle Eastern nation’s army prepares to take Mosul back from ISIS.
The announcement, the policy, and the timing drew swift criticism from Obama’s foreign policy critics.
“The timing is so political that it’s disgusting,” retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a Donald Trump supporter and former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told LifeZette.
The announcement, by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, came before Obama’s “Commander-in-Chief” town hall with CNN on Wednesday.
The U.S. military has 4,565 troops serving in Iraq today. Flynn said the number will now rise to around 5,200. He called the upper limit a “political” cap that drives military planners crazy, because the number may not be enough.
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