That's what our troops in Iraq are now there to do - provide advice and assistance to the Iraqis. I guess that is being done although how advice and assistance is defined is another matter. McClatchy reports on three cases of "advice and assistance" in the past two weeks and it seems that we have a very broad definition of those terms.
In one case the Iraqis could not defeat 25 insurgents without our help. In a second case, we were along on a raid which resulted in the killing of a child and injuring of a 90-year-old woman; the raid has been the subject of protests. In a third case insurgents were able to penetrate an Iraqi military base and kill some of the occupants before our troops killed the invaders.
Yes, we're told it is early days. How long will we be told this?
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