Bush: You need 'boots on the ground'
Source: The Hill
The United States will need combat troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), former President George W. Bush suggested in a new interview.
"The president will have to make that determination," Bush said in an interview published Friday with the Israel Hayom newspaper when asked if ISIS could be defeated without ground troops.
"My position was that you need to have boots on the ground," he said.
Bush made the comments days after President Obama said he was sending more troops to Iraq. Obama has authorized sending up to 450 additional U.S. troops "to train, advise, and assist" local Iraqi forces battling ISIS, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. They will not serve in combat.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/244883-bush-you-need-boots-on-the-ground
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Like we listen to you, Chimpy.
Will we ever recover from the BushCo. War Criminal Regeime?!?
"Rich families' kids in boots on the ground".
STFU. period.
