Barbara Boxer actually said...

it doesn't seem to me to be a question of the numbers of troops. It's hard to say that 200,000 versus 22,000 is that different than 230,000 ...

In 2001, every Senator voted to go against those who attacked us using Afghanistan as the base.

I voted, with reluctance, because I believed more troops would help our situation. We added the troops. The violence got worse.

The President said when he announced his Afghanistan strategy, that he needed those 21,000 troops--now, this is just months ago--to, 'take t...