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Build to withdraw troops and starting to build up to withdraw troops and starting to build up to invade iraq, the whole story build up to invade iraq, the whole story that build up to invade iraq, the whole story that are talking about and it would ve story that are talking about and it would ve been very, very different. and while would ve been very, very different. and while there has been all this focus and while there has been all this focus and and while there has been all this focus and concentration on afghanistan and a lot of, you know, troops afghanistan and a lot of, you know, troops tied afghanistan and a lot of, you know, troops tied down from a lot of money tied down troops tied down from a lot of money tied down some of the franchise of isis, al-qaeda have grown, metastasized, isis grew out of the iraq occupation from people who were imprisoned iraq occupation from people who were imprisoned by the americans in iraq. now they imprisoned by the ameri ....
Number of troops. we re not talking about 140,000 on the ground as during the iraq occupation. would that be a game changer on the ground? there are a lot of problems. you mentioned it. iranian influence. there are a lot of problems. would a handful of u.s. ground forces actually change the calculus on the ground? well, in terms of the fighter planes flying out of canada, they use special ones, who were forward spotters, and by having those forward spotters, they re able to hit their targets more easily. three quarters of our planes over there return without dropping their ordinance at all. but there s a secondary problem, and that is for the united states, unlike the british as i understand it, or the canadians, we run all the decisions through washington. they have to approve on hitting the targets. so often, by the time the pilots are out of fuel, they complain that they have to return. i think you d have to change the dynamics and allow the pilots ....
Without the acknowledgement of effect. there will be more u.s. soldiers and more raids like the one that killed abu sayyaf last weekend but we have to be honest about what we re facing here. the idea that we re winning this war, this is false. it reminds me nothing so much about what the bush administration s defense department was saying in early days of the iraq occupation. remember the death throws of the insurgency. to add even more depressing cast to this conversation isis isn t the only insurgency group in iraq. there are others that are partnering with them. how did they take ramadi? they had sleeper cells in the city that cultivated the local population and turned the tide in isis favor before they sent convoys in. let s talk about what can be done. you heard lindsey graham say we need to turn in 10,000 american troops. george pataki came out and said something similar. i would not be adverse to put boots on the ground. ....