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So it was not a combatant force that was being contemplated. it was train, advise, assist, so forth. >> secretary of state john kerry yesterday discussing the decision to withdraw u.s. troops from iraq. joining us now, carne ross, former british diplomat who resigned over the war in iraq. he's head of a non-profit, nonpartisan diplomatic advisory group called independent diplomatic. mr. ross, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having any. >> having been there in the middle of the initial international debate over the war in iraq in 2002 and 2003, how do you feel like the international deb...

Noncombat. it would have been not involved in combat. so it was not a combatant force that was being contemplated. it was train, advise, assist, so forth. >> secretary of state john kerry yesterday discussing the decision to withdraw u.s. troops from iraq. joining us now, kai ross, former british diplomat who resigned over the war in iraq. he's head of a non-profit, nonpartisan diplomatic advisory group called independent dipt. mr. ross, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having any. >> having been there in the middle of the initial international debate over the war in iraq in 2002 and 20...

State john kerry talked about residual force of american troops whether it would have kept this from happening after 2011. >> unquestionably not and whatever residual force was discussed to be left in iraq would have been, had the iraqis accepted the terms by which we leave troops anywhere in the world which they refused to do but that force would have been noncombat and it would have been not involved in combat. so it was not a combatant force that was being contemplated. it was train, advise, assist, so forth. >> your columns, i see your mission when i look at your columns that you're chosen...

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