>https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-wrong-she-said-160426650.html
>
>During Tuesday�s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala
Harris
>and former President Donald Trump, Harris inaccurately made it sound as
>though there are no U.S. soldiers deployed in overseas conflict zones.
>
>"And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military
>who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the
world,
>the first time this century," Harris said.
>
>That's not quite true.
>
>The U.S. maintains nearly 1,000 troops on bases in Syria and another
>2,500 in Iraq, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. In Syria,
>U.S. troops are stationed to help prevent a resurgence of the Islamic
>State group. They play a similar role in Iraq, where they also help
>disrupt Iran's influence and supply lines to various militias.
>
>Major civil war hostilities in both Syria and Iraq have gradually eased
>but both places are mired in low-level conflict.
>
>One example of how U.S. troops are in harm's way overseas: On the last
>day of August, a U.S. military-led raid in western Iraq killed at least
>15 Islamic State group "operatives" who fought back with numerous
weapons
>including grenades and explosive "suicide" belts. Seven U.S. soldiers
>were injured during the operation.
>
>And in January, three U.S. soldiers were killed and 40 more injured in
>nearby Jordan when the base they were on close to Syria's border came
>under attack by an Iranian-made drone.
>
>U.S. military personnel in Syria, Iraq and Jordan serve there as part of
>a global coalition that's known as Operation Inherent Resolve. The U.S.
>and Iraq are currently negotiating terms that could see several hundred,
>or more, U.S. troops leave Iraq as early as September next year. The
U.S.
>withdrew its remaining troops from Afghanistan in 2021.
>
>Staying could mean death. The escape nearly killed her. How one woman
>fled Afghanistan for freedom.
>
>Meanwhile, since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the Pentagon has sent
>what it's called "defensive military capabilities" - troops, equipment,
>war ships - to the Middle East in anticipation of a possible Iranian
>attack on Israel, and as Houthi rebels in Yemen have targeted
>international ships in the Red Sea, a commercial waterway.
>
>More broadly, as of 2023 there were about 170,000 American troops
>stationed outside the U.S. on upwards of 800 U.S. military bases,
>according to data from the Pentagon and David Vine, an anthropologist
and
>expert on the U.S. military at American University. And nearly a
quarter-
>century after the U.S. launched its response to 9/11, the Pentagon
>continues to pursue military actions in the Middle East, Africa and in
>many more parts of the world than Americans may realize, according to
>exclusive data obtained by USA TODAY, and published last year.
>
>'A reckoning is near': America has a vast overseas military empire. Does
>it still need it?
>
>The data comes from research by the Costs of War project at Brown
>University's Watson Institute.
>
>The findings covered the first three years of the Biden administration
>and showed the range of globe-spanning operations where U.S. troops
have,
>often in secret, engaged in direct combat, launched drone attacks,
>patrolled borders, gathered intelligence and trained other nations'
>militaries and security forces.
>
>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/11/trump-
>harris-debate-us-troops-combat-zones/75171915007/
>
>

She should withdraw. She's not allowed to lie.