WASHINGTON - More United States troops are needed in
Iraq now to put down an escalating insurgency, the top
Democrat on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
said on Sunday.
And the Democratic leader of the US Senate, Tom
Daschle, said additional American troops "ought to be
an option on the table."
"... If we don't see an improvement, that has to be an
option," Daschle said on NBC's Meet the Press.
Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said if
more counterinsurgency and special operations forces
were deployed, US troops would be able to withdraw
from the embattled country more quickly.
Iraq now to put down an escalating insurgency, the top
Democrat on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
said on Sunday.
And the Democratic leader of the US Senate, Tom
Daschle, said additional American troops "ought to be
an option on the table."
"... If we don't see an improvement, that has to be an
option," Daschle said on NBC's Meet the Press.
Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said if
more counterinsurgency and special operations forces
were deployed, US troops would be able to withdraw
from the embattled country more quickly.