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Our military is doing everything it can to equip Iraq's forces so our troops can come home as soon as possible, but we cannot leave until the job is done.
Mike Rogers
Home
Job
Military
Our
Everything
We Cannot
Possible
Troops
Soon
Come
Until
Forces
Equip
Leave
Doing
Iraq
Done
Cannot
The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
Mitch McConnell
Troops
New
Iraq
Iraqi
Need
Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.
Naftali Bennett
Fight
Decision
Will
First
Understanding
Defeat
Enough
State
Back
Troops
Allies
Step
Drones
Missiles
First Step
Islamic
Making
Terrorists
Next
Next Step
Ground
Europe
Needed
The History brand has long been a supporter of not only our troops but organizations that support our troops.
Nancy Dubuc
History
Long
Our
Only
Troops
Support
Support Our Troops
Supporter
Been
Brand
Organizations
No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.
Nick Clooney
Democracy
Matter
Long
We Cannot
Stay
More
Troops
Parliamentary
How
Impose
Than
Any
Cannot
Place
Theocracy
Many
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
Nick Clooney
Wisdom
Mistake
Setting
Out
Would
Would-Be
Troops
Iraq
Timetable
American
Getting
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Holds
American Troops
The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.
Nick Turse
Goals
Achieve
Seen
Understanding
Down
Military
Consequences
Presidency
Increasingly
Obama
Exactly
Tactical
Troops
Attempt
Road
Missions
Forces
Operations
Tight
Doing
American
Where
Deployed
Little
Might
Used
Special
Down The Road
Strategic
Elite
Kept
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.
Noam Chomsky
Government
First
Must
Invasion
Troops
Withdrawal
First Place
American
American Government
Place
Unilateral
Vietnam
Act
American Troops
Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
Pat Buchanan
War
Cold
Cold War
Troops
Korea
Still
Quarter
After
Century
Why
We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.
Patty Murray
War
Saying
Home
Our
Troops
Without
How
Sent
Them
Paying
Now
Bringing
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
Paul Begala
Service
War
Fight
First
Important
Lesson
Unjust
Honored
Troops
Casualty
Important Lesson
Unwise
American
Vietnam
Should
American Troops
The rise of ISIS is a result of - Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.
Paul Manafort
Mistake
Result
Decision
Our
Out
Obama
Rise
Troops
Colossal
Without
Making
Clinton
Iraq
Preparing
Pull
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
Paul von Hindenburg
Marked
Our
Trenches
Cross
Troops
Fact
Could
Had
Perfection
Fail
Obstacles
Tanks
However
Been
Effect
Did
Pitch
Now
Technical
Raised
It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.
Pete Stark
Time
Best
Defense
Defense Budget
Our
Possible
Troops
Had
Support
Budget
Within
Truly
Provides
Iraq
Accounts
Required
Means
Lives
One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of 2011 to have a sneak preview of what could take place in an Afghanistan without some kind of residual American presence.
Peter Bergen
Kind
Some
Only
Troops
Preview
Could
Take
Look
Withdrawal
Without
Iraq
Sneak
End
American
Afghanistan
After
Place
Residual
Presence
Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
Peter DeFazio
Government
Home
Enemy
Face
National
Statement
Negotiating
Security
Troops
Troops Home
Contains
Misunderstanding
False
Iraq
Iraqi
Timeline
National Security
Shows
Assertion
Second
Bringing
Resolution
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
Peter DeFazio
Government
Home
Responsibility
Claim
Boost
Citizens
Would
Troops
Troops Home
Take
Also
Force
Iraqi
Itself
Timeline
Legitimacy
Bringing
Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
Peter Pace
Future
Surrender
Opportunity
Past
Give
Troops
Part
Forces
Iraq
Your
End of the war would be when the Russian occupation troops leave Ukrainian territory and we close the uncontrolled part of the Russian-Ukrainian border.
Petro Poroshenko
War
Ukrainian
Border
Would
Would-Be
Russian
Troops
Part
Uncontrolled
Occupation
Territory
Leave
End
Close
It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
Philip Hammond
Defence
Assume
Our
Significant
Would
Troops
Volunteer
Armed
Armed Forces
Force
Forces
Scottish
Gamble
I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
Rahm Emanuel
Today
Home
Change
Tough
Building
Nation
Situation
President
Our
President Obama
Saw
Finally
Obama
Some
Troops
Delivered
Come
Make
Calls
Nation-Building
Iraq
America
Room
Fought
Believed
Here
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Raul Grijalva
War
Home
Fight
Women
People
Will
Men
Men And Women
Congress
Our
Troops
Troops Home
Exercise
Issue
Continue
American
Die
Deception
Whether
Fantasy
American People
Choice
Based
Right
Start
Bringing
Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.
Raul Grijalva
Future
Home
Needs
People
Nation
Meet
Our
States
Must
Vital
Troops
Troops Home
Could
For The People
Also
Go
Dollars
Iraq
Domestic
Just
Stop
Tax
Tax Dollars
United
United States
Necessary
Bringing
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.
Richard Engel
Police
Technically
Enter
Administer
Troops
Allowed
Supposed
Lebanese
Camps
Refugee
Them
Themselves
Agreement
Palestinian
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.
Richard Engel
Country
Every
States
Status
Troops
Forces
Where
Agreement
United
United States
Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.
Richard Engel
Government
Fight
Willing
Religious
Religious Leaders
Some
Troops
Leaders
Iraqi
Many
Appear
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