Barack Obama said Friday that his national security team will soon provide him with a list of 'selective actions by our military' to help push back a terrorist horde marching through Iraq, but insisted that 'we will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat' there.
He will be 'reviewing options in the days ahead,' the U.S. president said in a hastily scheduled statement on the South Lawn of the White House, before boarding Marine One en route to Bismarck, North Dakota.
The murderous Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, 'poses a danger to Iraq and its people,' Obama said, 'and given the nature of these terrorists, it could pose a threat to America and its interests as well.'
But he emphasized that Iraq's government should 'solve their own problems.'
The United States, Obama insisted, will not get involved in a protracted military campaign in the absence of work toward a political solution in the nation that Saddam Hussein once ruled with an iron fist.
On the warpath to Baghdad: A graphic showing the town and cities captured by ISIS over the last few days
Marauders: Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) celebrate on American vehicles taken from Iraqi security forces along a street in the city of Mosul, which they now occupy
On the warpath to Baghdad: A graphic showing the town and cities captured by ISIS over the last few days
Marauders: Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) celebrate on American vehicles taken from Iraqi security forces along a street in the city of Mosul, which they now occupy
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