President Obama has approved the deployment of 130 more "military advisers" to northern Iraq, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced on Tuesday.
In addition, the Obama administration is considering deploying American ground forces to Iraq despite repeated assurances that it would not put boots on the ground in the crisis-hit country.
The proposed military mission, officials said, is aimed at rescuing thousands of Izadi refugees who are trapped by ISIL terrorists atop a barren mountain in northern Iraq, The Wall Street Journal reports.
"All US troops are trained combat troops. They are probably Special Forces, meaning they are 'trained killers' and where a 130 show up, you can expect more to follow," Lendman, author and syndicated columnist, told Press TV in a phone interview on Wednesday.
Lendman pointed out that "the only way a country can engage in hostilities against another country is if the (United Nations) Security Council authorizes it."
"There has not been a Security Council authorization for any of America's wars in the post 9/11 era, not Afghanistan, not Iraq in 2003, not Libya, not Obama's proxy war in Syria, and now Obama's war against Iraq again," he added.
Therefore, "Obama is committing lawless aggression just the way George Bush did, just the way George Bush senior did against Iraq," the analyst noted.
Lendman dismissed the notion that the US is escalating its military operation in Iraq for "humanitarian" purposes.
"The idea that America is going in to fight ISIS (or ISIL) is absolutely absurd," he said, adding that ISIL is the United States' "enemy" in Iraq, but in neighboring Syria, "ISIL and its associated elements are America's allies."
"America never engages in any sort of belligerence for humanitarian reasons or responsibility to protect," Lendman said.
In Iraq, the analyst explained, "We are talking about oil, we are talking about total control, and we are talking about regional control. That's what it's all about."
The United States currently has 8,630 forces inside Iraq. Thousands of US military personnel, oil contractors, security forces, and diplomats are already stationed in Iraq's Kurdistan region and Baghdad.
Who is that man in the picture above? The one with a bushy black beard, white skinned, who looks like a Hollywood action hero. Complete with his AK-47 w/pink ammo clip. We've seen him at least twice before, photo-opping in his Mr. Jihadist getup.