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The most adventurous ingredient in the anti-Iraqi proposal is the use of US ground troops, Pentagon sources say.

US President Barack Obama previously ruled out the involvement of US ground troops, and has instead promised to provide arms and training to local forces fighting against IS.

But he said the one suggestion he had rejected, after consulting with his military and civilian leaders, was the dispatch of large numbers of US ground troops.

Barack Obama has described Isis as "the face of evil" but ruled out dispatching large numbers of US ground troops to confront them.

First, when asked about the presence of US ground troops in Afghanistan, Sanders replied: "We can't continue to do it alone".

All the stories you hear about what it does to a town, to a psyche, when a convoy of US ground troops goes past, suddenly make sense.

However, he said "if that fails to be true, and there are threats to the United States, then I of course would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of US military ground forces".

A CBS poll last week showed that 57 per cent of US citizens were in favour of sending US ground troops, a significant increase from October when 47 per cent approved action and September when only 39 per cent supported possible intervention.

" 'Merry Christmas, thanks for working at ground zero and breathing the dust....' They told us we were heroes and used the pictures of us at ground zero to sell themselves.

We have to view reliving a difficult memory simply as a way of keeping us grounded in the present.

After five years of bloody fighting in Iraq, US ground forces — the Army and Marine Corps — were having difficulty recruiting.