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Thread: U.S. General open to ground force as option in Iraq

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob View Post
    Every Army or Marine goes through basic trainng. This is to make them all combat troops.

    Explain to us all whom those non combat troops are? Cooks? Medics? Chaplin corps?

    What makes a well trained combat trooper a non combat trooper?
    They are not there to serve a combat role, therefore by the military's own words as well as the words of every foreign policy expert that knows their stuff, they are not combat troops or "boots on the ground."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob View Post
    Neocons must be a bad name. None of you tell us who they are. We see no proof you know one from a republican or Democrat.
    I gave eight names on another thread. I can give them to you again.

    And we all know you're a Bush apologist, you don't have to keep repeating the same nonsense.
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