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morningfog

(18,115 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 12:11 PM Sep 2014

We have over 1,600 troops on the ground in Iraq, and thousands conducting on sea and air.

This is no small operation. There are literally thousands of troops deployed and participating in this war.

That their boots are on ships and in planes is of little distinction. And we all know that the numbers will only increase from here.

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