AP FACT CHECK: Republican debaters go astray

WASHINGTON — A look at some of the claims in the latest Republican presidential debate and how they compare with the facts:

JEB BUSH: "We need to embed our troops in the Iraqi military."

THE FACTS: The U.S. is already doing that.

U.S. special forces are working side by side with Iraqi forces in the fight against Islamic State militants and American military advisers and trainers are working with Iraqi troops in various locations. To be sure, Bush has called for an intensification of the military effort in a variety of ways, but debate viewers would not know from his comment that U.S. troops are already operating with Iraqi and Kurdish forces.

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