Reid Says Yes To Short Term “Surge” In Troops: Leading Dems Say No Way...

Associated Press HOPE YEN December 17, 2006 09:52 PM

The Senate's top Democrat offered qualified support Sunday for a plan to increase U.S. troops inIraq, saying it would be acceptable as part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by 2008.

President Bush's former secretary of state, however, expressed doubts any troop surge would be effective, noting U.S. forces already are overextended. "The American Army isn't large enough to secure Baghdad," saidColin Powell, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman during the 1991Gulf War.

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