McCain, Biden, Kerry come out for sending *more* troops to Iraq
Sen. John McCain, interviewed on CBS’s "The Early Show," maintained that "one of the very big mistakes early on was that he didn’t have enough troops on the ground, particularly after the initial victory, and that’s still the case."
Sen. John Kerry, Bush’s Democratic opponent in last year’s presidential election, told NBC’s "Today" show that the borders of Iraq "are porous" and said "we don’t have enough troops" there.
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., appearing on ABC’s "Good Morning America," disputed Bush’s notion that sufficient troops are in place.
"I’m going to send him the phone numbers of the very generals and flag officers that I met on Memorial Day when I was in Iraq," the Delaware Democrat said. "There’s not enough force on the ground now to mount a real counterinsurgency."
Biden argued, "The course that we are on now is not a course of success. He (Bush) has to get more folks involved. He has to stand up that army more quickly."
This is in response to recent polls showing a majority of Americans favoring a withdrawal from Iraq. In other words, these 3 chuckleheads - including the recent and possible future Democratic presidential nominees - have managed to stake out a position on Iraq which is both more dangerous and less popular than that of George W. Bush.
Incidentally, here are some links to what the American-directed "real counterinsurgencies" called for by the ‘liberal’ Biden have looked like in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Angola, East Timor and what at times seems like half of the goddamn world.
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