Biden: More U.S. Troops Needed in Iraq

[hedgetrimmer]

link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8096-2003Nov23?language=printer

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Reuters
Sunday, November 23, 2003; 11:56 AM


By Lori Santos

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More U.S. troops are needed in Iraq now to put down an escalating insurgency, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Sunday.

Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said if more counter-insurgency and special operations forces were deployed, U.S. troops would be able to withdraw from the embattled country more quickly.

"There's a direct relationship, us going in now and doing more so that we can get out earlier," he said on "Fox News Sunday."

"I understand it's incredibly difficult for the president to go to the American people and say we're going to put more troops in near term," Biden said. "...(But) there is not enough force or the right type of force there at this moment to quell the insurgency."

[JackSwift]

1. Joe can always join up

or ask his sons to. I've a few bucks that won't be happening.

[saigon68]

9. Joe won't sign up

Its too easy to sit on the sideline and have someone else do the fighting and the dying.

[dArKeR]

10. We want his children to go not just him. And his wife can volunteer to

work with the wounded on the front lines, which seems to be the entire country. Rush, Noelle, the Bush twins, Oliver North... and all the rest of the patriotic Americans.

[pasadenaboy]

double post

[pasadenaboy]

2. Biden "more hair needed to fix my bad transplant"

in a hole? Get a bigger shovel and dig faster!

[IndianaGreen]

3. I don't see the puke Joe Biden volunteering to go to war

His hair transplants will be more than enough to scare the Resistance into surrender.

[ozymandius]

4. The only Senator who should speak on this is Tim Johnson.

His son is in the 101st Airborne. Senator Johnson is the only member of Congress to have a child in the armed forces.

[KoKo]

5. Every week Biden appears on Sunday Pundit Shows and says the same thing!

He's stuck! Let him out of his box! Get someone else on those shows! arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Guaranteed]

6. But we're going to pull them out in June, right?

Oh, okay.

Isn't there supposed to be some kind of "policy" here?

[Scott Lee]

7. I am soooo sick of Joe Biden's punk ass

He reminds me of everything in the Democratic party that needs to be changed. NOW.

[Voltaire99]

8. Exactly - Biden can go to hell

This wind-up Republican-pleasing war chimp is a miniature Cheney.

[Rex]

11. Yeah send more troops so we can pull out quicker

That's why they are planning to bring back the draft and raise active Army numbers from 40,000 to over 500k. Because, see, we won't need those numbers cause we will be out by June, wait...