Obama Says ISIS War Powers Request Not About ‘Another Ground War’
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his request for congressional approval to use military force against ISIS is “not the authorization of another ground war like Afghanistan or Iraq.”
The president spoke from the White House after sending Congress a request that would limit American military engagement to three years and prohibit “enduring offensive ground forces.”
Obama said that the war powers authorization “does not call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces to Iraq or Syria. It is not the authorization of another ground war like Afghanistan or Iraq.”
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