The Patriot Post® · American Soldiers in Iraq Can't Get Medals

The 1,600 ground troops in Barack Obama’s merry little not-a-war in Iraq and Syria are ineligible to receive medals because the commander in chief has not named the mission anything more than a “counterterrorism operation.” The Hill reports that in order for troops to receive an award designating they were part of a particular operation, the operation must be named – something usually done early on. The American soldiers degrading ISIL are ineligible to receive the Iraq Campaign Medal because they weren’t deployed before Dec. 31, 2011. While Obama uses the same Authorization to Use Military Force that brought America into Iraq, he won’t use that same logic to give the soldiers medals for risking their lives. He would rather forget he’s back in Iraq, fighting al-Qaida in Iraq still led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (but now called ISIL) and using the legal justification he originally opposed for doing so. Obama doesn’t name the operation because then it would define what he’s doing. More…

(H/T: redstate.com)