in harm s way in libya, in iraq, in syria. gordon troebridge was deputy press secretary last week. today he is no longer is. today he said this, white house spokesman needed to clearly say u.s. is not going the take iraq s oil. every moment that statement stands puts our troops at greater risk. if you are a military family, if you have friends in the military, if you know somebody who is deployed or is deploying, we re going to take your oil, that s american policy now, we re going to take your oil, that has just shifted the ground underneath your boot. our military takes an incredible risk, but we support our troops and respect their sacrifice and
strikes, but there are also ground forces, u.s. ground forces in all of these places. that s part of what makes these strikes possible. in iraq, in afghanistan, in libya, in syria. the weekend before last u.s. special operations troops in syria apparently did one of these super daring helicopter raise deep inside isis-held territory in syria. it was u.s. special operations in multiple choppers. they went in deep into isis controlled territory in syria. they were going after one specific isis commander. they spent 90 minutes on the ground. they apparently got their target and they got back out. this is, again, u.s. special forces. u.s. troops. there on the ground in considerable numbers, not just in afghanistan and iraq but in libya, in syria, and in almost all cases they are working with local forces against isis and al qaeda and the taliban. that is you know, that s
essentially a capitalist tool, as a looting tool, as a pillaging tool to steal the natural resources from other countries. having an oil company ceo in charge of our foreign policy is enough to create those worries. you re not hitting at it anymore. when the president says, yes, that s our policy and the white house spokesman backs it up, it was dangerous to u.s. interest when it was a hypothetical, when it was a conspiracy theory, but now it is u.s. policy. and the people who are going to face the threat from it are american troops who are already in harm s way in libya, in iraq, in syria. gordon troebridge was deputy press secretary last week. today he is no longer is. today he said this, white house spokesman needed to clearly say u.s. is not going the take
now, the city of sirte in libya was controlled by isis until recently. libyan ground forces retook the city last month. the u.s. military says isis fighters who escaped the ground offensive that retook the city, the isis fighters flew to the two camps in the desert. the u.s. african command put in a request to strike them, and president obama approved the mission. in a globe-circling feat, four americans took off from missouri, they flew 34 hours round trip. they had 15 separate inflight refuellings and they completed that mission. defense secretary ash carter announced it at the pentagon once the the bombers and the pilots were back home safe on thursday. first in libya, our africa command conducted air strikes against two isil camps south of sirte.
last full day of the obama administration. but it turns out that b-2 stealth bomber run around the world and into libya, that might not have been the last combat mission ordered by president obama because those b-2s flew on wednesday. the next day on thursday, u.s. planes were flying a major series of strikes in syria. again, targeting isis. in this case targeting al qaeda. in this case they used a b-52 bomber and drones and the u.s. says it struck a long-standing militant training camp west of aleppo near the turkish border. so right up until the moment he left office on wednesday with those b-2 strikes, on thursday in syria with the b-52, president obama up until the moment he left office he was ordering aggressive u.s. military strikes ainst al qaeda and isis targets in countries like libya and syria. and there are american pilots who are carrying out these