In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. And in acts of barbarism, they took the lives of two American journalists -- Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff.Is ISIL unique in their brutality? Saudi Arabia has beheaded eight(?) so far this year. Aren't there others - particularly in the Middle East - that have been as brutal as ISIL? For example, Hussein, Assad, Sunnis, Shiites, etc.
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So tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat.How many days has this new government existed? A week? How many Sunnis have joined it?
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we will increase our support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. In June, I deployed several hundred American service members to Iraq to assess how we can best support Iraqi Security Forces. Now that those teams have completed their work - and Iraq has formed a government - we will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq.The 475 "service members" bring the number of our troops to over 1,000. How do you define combat? We're living in an age of misuse of words, which practice used to be called lying.
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