Word Play In The War Zone

by Chris Bodenner

Retired Army Col. Andrew Berdy vents over at Tom Ricks' place:

Can you explain to me how
why, the myth of "all combat troops out of Iraq" is allowed to
perpetuated by the press, much less our senior military leadership? Yes, the mission has changed. But units
my son's Stryker Brigade (not the one that just left!) are, and
will be, combat infantry

This is fiction pure and simple. I just don't get how the nation has swallowed this and why...