11.   Its primary instrument during the day was not ground troops but air raids, part of its continuing and classic air campaign.

12.   Lawmakers were right Wednesday to insist that President Clinton seek congressional approval if he decides to order ground troops into combat.

13.   Magazine mogul Steve Forbes, who has supported airstrikes but not ground troops, served for six months in the New Jersey National Guard.

14.   Most recently, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., said it while discussing the deployment of NATO ground troops in Kosovo.

15.   Neither Rumsfeld nor Pentagon briefers would talk on the record about American ground troops in Afghanistan.

16.   No matter how they describe them, these soldiers are the closest thing to, if not being, ground troops.

17.   Nor can the administration allow it to lead to the introduction of American ground troops.

18.   Our military leaders braced us for a long, bloody winter in Afghanistan, and of the eventual commitment of American ground troops.

19.   Saxton said the trip had confirmed his opposition to American involvement in the conflict and to the use of American ground troops.

20.   The speech made it clear that American ground troops would be involved, and that a military strike could come soon.