what does that have to do with what the President said? Combat as defined by who and for what purpose?
Combat roles? Combat? Pentagon rules? Whack-a-doodle-doo rules by whackos like you?
That's why it is playing fast and loose with words.
Wat they have done is simply call troops that are engaging in combat something other than combat troops and you seem to think that actually matters.
I honestly do not care what the 'military' wants to call it or how the president wants to try and twist reality in order to avoid fessing up the the 'no combat troops' idiotic statement. They are there and they are engaging in combat, period. Playing with words to twist reality is asinine in my book and I don't play that game. I catch the coffins as they come back from Afghanistan and Iraq - every single day. How about you tell those people that they are not 'combat troops.'