21.   Both public and congressional opinion need to be consulted about decisions so grave as bombing a European capital or sending ground troops into Kosovo.

22.   But he cautioned that he would not support sending U.S. troops into the region.

23.   But if Boutros-Ghali grants the request, he risks leading U.N. troops into a confrontation with the Serbs that could make the delivery of aid impossible.

24.   But if they justified military action, we should long ago have sent troops into Bosnia and even Rwanda.

25.   But Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, said the deployment of ground troops into the combat zone had already begun.

26.   But peace talks have faltered, and on Thursday, President Ernesto Zedillo ordered the troops back into Chiapas with the stated aim of capturing the rebel leadership.

27.   But the deranged Mandible hatches a diabolical plan to racially purify the colony, and marches Z and the troops into war with acid-spewing termites.

28.   But the allies have ruled out sending ground troops into Kosovo until the fighting stops, largely to avoid political dissent at home.

29.   But we have no plans to deploy ground troops into Iraqi territory, do we?