Why are our soldiers being deployed for active duty to Kuwait?

I feel better with our soldiers over here with US...why you say...to save us from Obama's private madcow army that are out on the streets causing chaos. You can see them camping out at Zoocati park and Oakland Ca. They are a threat to our States, where they intend to occupy the State Capital buildings like the 2 million dollar damage Obama's army did in Madison.

Personally, I'd like to know about these events in advance so I might have a chance to thank our soldiers as they leave. Is there any chance the Patch can post notice in advance of these events?

Why are we protecting Kuwait? Is it the oil?

Vote for Ron Paul
He will bring them home in a heart beat!

@Ralph, Thanks for your comment and we agree—we aim to, whenever possible, post events in advance. Next time we'll be sure to post the opportunity to meet our soldiers who are serving or have served in advance. Because of the incredible number of community events taking place in towns with Patch sites, we also depend on our readers to post events to the calendar, which is almost 100 percent user-generated. Instructions are here: http://bedford.patch.com/articles/how-to-post-your-news-on-patch

Don't get me wrong...I love our brave soldiers...I am trying to understand why Obama is sending them to Kuwait.

@Ralph, this event was not open to the public. We received notice of it on Friday afternoon and had to get press clearance. If there is an event that would be an opportunity to thank our soldiers, we will make sure it is posted on Patch so you can become aware of it. Thanks.

nice pic Mario Orlando, come home safe - i'll be thinking about u.

It is a bit puzzling that Obama announced the bringing home of troops to a standing ovation at the State of the Union, but failed to mention the thousands going to Kuwait. Well, maybe not that puzzling.....

We will always have an Army to protect the United States this has been going on for so many years,and will be sent where needed. I remember father, husband, and son going to war and so on. This will always be. Thank you all services, and God Bless you and ,GOD BLESS THE UNTED STATES OF AMEERICA

A presence elsewhere in the world? Bill, it is 330 miles from Kuwait City to Baghdad. It's not like they're putting troops thousands of miles away. My point was and still is, if Obama is going to take credit for bringing the troops home, but in reality sending troops to a place less than 400 miles away than from where they were, be honest and tell people that. If you want to call that hate, feel free, however you're simply wrong. He's not being honest, how's that?

As we write comments, 120 of our best citizens are being separated from their families so that the world can be a safer place. Yet you folks think it's an appropriate time to critisize our President, judge the tactical decisions of deployment or encourage people to vote for Ron Paul, Newt or whoever isn't President Obama. You all need to remember that the freedom that you are exercising was paid for in the blood of our soldiers and we owe them not only our thanks but our support. Can't we put a lid on the hositility for five minutes and wish these brave men and women the best and let them know that we will pray for their safe return?

It Has Always Been The Soldier.
It is the soldier,
not the President who gives us democracy.
It is the soldier,
not the Congress who takes care of us.
It is the soldier,
not the Reporter who has given us Freedom of Press.
It is the soldier,
not the Poet who has given us Freedom of Speech.
It is the soldier,
not the campus Organizer who has given us the
Freedom to Demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag;
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
that allows the protester to burn the flag.

(Father Dennis O'Brien, US Marine Corp. Chaplain)

Mungo, that is the whole point....we don't want our soldiers to shed another drop of blood for a worthless war or worthless people who hate us....My question has not been answered because no one here knows WHY our soldiers are being deployed to Kuwait.
Can you answer the question without making up something like a fairy tale reason. I doubt it. Learn to THINK!

the same reason our guys are/were still in South Korea. To keep the animals in thier cage in the north of the dmz. Kuwait is still an ally(sp?) to the U.S. and vulnerable to the threat of terrorism from outside its borders. Any president would have done the same. In fact, its one of the first times this president has listened to his military advisors. Give it a rest and pray these guys all come home safe and wish them Godspeed.

You people should be reading updates from twitter news outlets. Thousands were redeployed to Jordan, Israel, Diego Garcia, the Gulf area. This is prep for Iran Shiite Crescent containment and war (maybe).

Peel the onion - we do not deploy The Guard for regular duty rotation. BY May we will have at least 4 carrier groups at Hormuz and possibly a fifth.

Read up! The "zone" is VERY hot and unstable.

Shar,
I actually do know why they are being deployed, but no I will not share it with you.
Your statement that these are, "worthless people" is offensive to all the people of the world.
Pray for our troops Shar. It's about them.

People who hate us are worthless to me...I see no reason to send our troops into harms way. Or to fight for people who will turn on us in a dime. Hellloooooo read your history.

http://www.debka.com/article/21691/

May war?

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To Lanning and the rest of the Editors: You really should consider leaving the posts as they were and not delete what you think is unrelated (very very relative term) unless you will run afoul of a law. The market place of ideas will decide what is acceptable or not - with all the SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and other laws, treaties, censorships a local Patch should be a refuge for the First Amendment, no matter how insulting some comments get. This country was not built on "p.c." nor do our laws reflect that monster. My old man did not fight in WW2 for censorship - just the opposite. So learn lessons from history and get with the American Program of 1st Amendment protection - BE a WInter Soldier for the US Constitution!

- Publius

Thank You Dan for those words. This is the last bastion of free speech.

Hey Francis- thank you for the thank you! But I fear we are losing America and American values. It's now editor's choice of which books to burn and we are supposed to say "yay!". I feel bad for my kids. I posted this a.m. that I wanted my son home NOW (radar defense contractor employee) and that Obummah (spelled like khilafah) had three precious years he squandered by playing golf and destroying the Constitution and ignoring the third Jihad - because of HIM we are faced with a fait acompli where our kids are now placed into Barry's meat grinder. I also posted that Panetta threw Israel under the bus - he disclosed the approximate time of an Israeli strike - giving the Iranians a head's up to get themselves moving so they can waste our kids. So the editor's removed the post. No profanity, no personal attacks, just anti-Obummah politics and for that, scrubbed.

wow again.

Oh right, I also said he was turning America into the 58th OIC State. And then I posted a short blurb on how the Islamists won a majority in the governement in Kuwait - that got scrubbed also.

Patch is MSM - we just had more freedom in the beginning - then HuffPost lowered the boom - cracked our heads. No warm fuzzy comments? scrubbed!

C'est la guerre!

FAST AND FURIOUS for one - emails came out about this felony murder project being one to kill the second Amendment - read the friday email dumps and testimony. Recess appointments for two - see Sen Mike lee give testimony yesterday (*or was it wed?) BRILLIANT constitutional analysis, reciting the Founders, the history of recess sprts, etc. OBUMMAH is clearly acting unconstitutionally. Libya: #3 - undeclared war - War Powers Act ignored. Boots on the ground in Uganda - oops! - 60 days is up and no resolution. Czar Cass Sunstein and the 2020 Constitution Socety - changing it. All the other czars - illegal. etc., etc. Ahhh, NDAA just signed - secret detention of American Citizens in America BY THE ARMED FORCES - ever hear of the Posse Comitatus Act? read it. SOPA, PIPA, ACTA (signed in Oct., 2011 - needs Senate ratification). Agreeing to ban blasphemy - pick on Islam and you WILL go to jail pretty soon. Thought crimes coming because of what he is doing at the UN and extending it to the States. Oh here's a goody - electronic voting machines and a system that was (UMich hacked it a few years ago) and can be hacked again - now our votes will be tallied by a company in Spain, run by a former Obama employee. Like that one? talk about stealing elections and perverting the vote! Shall we go on?

Issy: are you mad? crawl out from under the rock and smell the stink. Obummah will get my son killed. I am NOT happy.

C'mon - get real. The dude is a curse on America.

Issy, are you out of your mind? [Did it ever occur to you that Panetta deliberately released information to increase the political pressure on Iran? ] I think it is you that doesn't understand the Iranians!!! Political pressure. They don't respond to political pressure, where have you been? You will say next that we should sit around the campfire and discuss this with them.You live in a dream world. Wake up and see the danger to us all.

Here: link to Aaron Klein and his article on Cass Sunstein - 2009. Then read the updates. Yes, POTUS is trying to change forever OUR Constitution. http://www.wnd.com/2009/09/109529/

Issy: with all seriousness. Never trust ANY news story from ANY source anymore - gather consensus from many dif sources THEN make your decisions. Look for the bias in the writer and site, then filter out the facts. The election of this naive kid with his secret agenda was a huge mistake. American Exceptionalism is at stake, and yes I do believe in that. We have an outstanding experiment in America that the world has never seen in history and probably never will anymore now that Obummah is intent on killing it. Justice Ginsberg is wrong - our Constitution, with it's amendments is pretty near perfect. The rest is tweaking through the Courts and Legislatures. New countries should look to what we have and what we have tweaked. Best country in the world as far as I am concerned.

We deploy to protect that, not to be reactive for our mistakes. Obummah has deployed our kids to win himself an election - don't fool yourself - this has nothing to do with freedom - it's about protecting HIS rear.

Fast and Furious was not the Bush Gunwalker which was stopped. You say nothing about the plan to limit the 2nd Amend thru Fast and Furious - why? that IS a document. You say nothing about Cass Sunstein and Obama's plan to Amend/change the Constitution - why? Recess appts if INDEED recess are ok. Senate was in pro forma session meeting every 3 days. It even passed Obama's spending limit bill he so wanted passed - Senate WAS in session - Obummah ignored that. Czars? I did not elect them and there are no laws to support their position. SOPA< PIPA and ACTA - nothing? C'mon Issy, you can do better. as for the NDAA - he did not have to sign it, he could have vetoed it and let the Senate pass it again by 2/3 - no guts. What about Hillary and the UN Human Rights OIC Blasphemy laws? Obama signed ACTA. comments?

He's going to get us all killed. The satellite just launched into low earth orbit by Iran? EMP? nah... but maybe...

Forgot: O neverdid anything to change the Interior Dept before the big blow in the Gulf - had years, was alerted to the corrruption, but nah - let the Gulf and the residents die (corexit - blue plague?)

Get real. A tough president with real values? - our kids would not have to be in the Mid East. Things would have been made plain long ago.

Would the Guard have to be deployed to Kuwait if Obama excelled at foreign policy? The Guard is for home duty. We should have about 100,000 deployed troops on the ground in the ME in about 2 months. This never should have gotten this far - a surgical global strike would have finished the job in a few hours a few years ago. Bush was no better - Iran should have been taken out long ago. It's the same folk who let it get this far - so game on. too bad.

As for the Constitution? I would not change a thing. What's changed is pretty good and nothing else I can think of should be added or deleted at this point. Would you change it? and how and why? to what end? and what couldn't a simple law do that was constitutional in nature do that the constitutional change would do better? Would you add "right to a job"? and if so, who pays? Would you make hate speech a crime (insults - remember our 1st Amend and Tallentyre talking about Voltaire)? Leave my Constitution alone - 225 years of jurisprudence intertwined. and PS: I aspire to be a billionaire!!

If O supported the People's Mujahadeen of Iran in 2009 and the students who were slaughtered in the streets, the regime would have imploded - instead we encouraged and stood back. Consider O and his Samantha Power R2P gal as basiji. We will always station troops around the world. We have interests and we are special. Imagine a world without the US and American Exceptionalsim. Pretty bleak.....

One can only hope they kill each other before we have to do it for them.

here's a tid bit - executions in Iran are about one every eight hours. for about the last two years. they seem really deterred.

We need a new president.

Dan Seidel for Prez! At least I am not mediocre.