61.   But Clinton -- in search of an election-season fillip and without obtaining congressional approval -- was dead set on sending American troops to Haiti.

62.   But for four years the general did not have any troops to command, because he was on the bench behind Adrian Autry and Michael Lloyd.

63.   But it no longer plans to send ground troops to Zaire.

64.   But President Clinton has continued to state publicly that NATO has no intention of adding ground troops to the aerial bombardment.

65.   But President Clinton has vowed to lend U.S. troops to a NATO force monitoring a truce in Bosnia.

66.   But so has the U.S. government, whenever it has decided to commit troops to dubious interventions.

67.   But no other president has expressed the ordeal of sending troops to war in more human terms than Bush.

68.   But the EU failed to agree whether to send troops to Albania.

69.   But the president has also made it clear that he will not wait for public backing before committing U.S. troops to armed conflict.

70.   But the measure also contains contingency money that the president could use to pay for sending American troops to Bosnia.