Hagel acknowledges may have to consider troop recommendations in Iraq

[jakeXT]

(CNN) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is acknowledging he may have to consider recommendations to place ground forces in Iraq to help forces there locate targets if, in fact, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff makes that recommendation.

But these would not be fighting forces, Hagel said. "There will be no American combat troops in Iraq or Syria."

Gen. Martin Dempsey has suggested at least twice that a recommendation of ground troops could come, although he has emphasized he has not made that proposal yet.

He has also said that he doesn't "foresee a circumstance when it would be in our interest to take this fight on ourselves with a large military contingent."

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/15/us/isis-hagel-troops/

[newfie11]

1. Surprise suprise, who couldn't see this coming

[riversedge]

2. He said they are not combat troops--which

I see as offensive US troops fighting with the Iraqi. Yet, this is a slide toward that.