General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the United States Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday afternoon that the Pentagon that he’d consider recommending putting more U.S. troops with Iraqi forces to fight ISIS.

Being that it’s the military — and Congress to boot — he didn’t say in such clear terms. He said it in a euphemistic, coded sort of way.

Click the “play” button on the video below to hear precisely what he said: