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Diaz just spoke to josh earnest. Why telegraph the attack . You have to talk to the department of defense what the specific strategy is but we have over the last several months had American Military personnel in iraq working with Iraqi Security forces to train them and to equip them and ultimately make sure its Iraqi Security forces who are on the Ground Fighting for their country. Jim, youve seen a lot of rollouts of these kind of operations, is it to the white houses advantage that they publicize these plans in advance . Heres the sense i get from military officials when i ask that very question. There appears to be an effort here to set isis back on its heels slightly. The hope is actually that they would pour more of their forces from outlying areas into that area to give to give the iraqi forces and Kurdish Forces sort of a centralized target. But keep them in a defensive crouch as opposed to launching offensive operations and at the same time you get a sense that the u. S. Milita

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