Bush: Liberia Force May Just Be Advisers

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Bush: Liberia Force May Just Be Advisers


By TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 9, 2003; 11:08 PM


PRETORIA, South Africa - President Bush suggested Wednesday that any U.S. military help in ending brutal civil unrest in Liberia might consist mostly of advisers and trainers to avoid stretching American forces too thinly around the globe.

"We won't overextend our troops, period," Bush said at a joint news conference with South African President Thabo Mbeki, who had pressed him on what role the United States would play in the crisis.

African nations want the United States to do more to end the bloodshed in the western Africa nation. But U.S. lawmakers, including some leading Republicans, have questioned the wisdom of yet another major overseas military entanglement with so many troops already on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

[Ohio Dem]

1. Didn't we start with only advisors someplace else?

Hmmm. Where was that? It was the sixties, I think. Hmmmm.