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## Video: Obama to Deploy Special Forces to Iraq

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_Published 2014-06-19. Obama to Deploy Special Forces to Iraq_


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## Transcript

Through our new counter- terrorism partnership fund we're prepared to work with Congress to provide additional equipment. We have had advisers in Iraq through our embassy and we're prepared to send a small number of additional American military advisers, up to 300, to assess how we can best train, advise and support Iraqi security forces going forward. In recent days we've positioned additional U. S. military assets in the region. Because of our increased intelligence resources, we're developing more information about potential targets associated with ISIL. In going forward, we will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action, if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it.

American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq. But we will help Iraqis as they take the fight to terrorists who threaten the Iraqi people, the region, and American interests as well. At my direction we have significantly increased our intelligence, surveillance, and recognizance assets so that we have a better picture of what's taking place inside of Iraq. And this will give us a greater understanding of what ISIL is doing, where it's located, and how we might support efforts to counter this threat. Right now is a moment where the, the fate of Iraq hangs in the balance. And the test for all of them is gonna be whether they can overcome the mistrust the deep sectarian divisions in some cases just political opportunism.

And say, this is bigger than any one of us and we gotta makes sure that we we do what's right for Iraqi people. And that's a challenge. That's not something that United States can do for them, that's not something by the way that the United States armed forces can do for them. We do not have the ability to simply solve this problem by sending in tens of thousands of troops and committing the kinds of blood and treasure that has already been expended in Iraq. Ultimately this is something that is gonna have to be solved by the Iraq's.

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