Tim Ryan: “While we are hitting on the war, I think it is important for us to maybe go back and reevaluate why the Democrats have…”

“While we are hitting on the war, I think it is important for us to maybe go back and reevaluate why the Democrats have the position of redeploy out, wind this thing down, and I think it is important for us to go through some of the numbers. Mr. Meek had already mentioned the number of troops killed. We have had another nine that were killed in the last couple of days, and our hearts and prayers go out to all the families that have been affected by this and who have lost soldiers over there. The most heartbreaking thing we have to do is go to these funerals and see a 20-year old kid who has been married for a year with a 7-month-old son or daughter. It is heartbreaking when we don't even know what winning is. Ask the President. What is winning this war? What does that mean now? We can't really get an answer from the President. But a couple of things, why we think the President and his policies have made this situation worse. The number of insurgents in Iraq in 2003 was 5,000. The number of insurgents in Iraq in March of 2007 is 70,000, all Sunni, mostly Sunni. What I love now is the President is starting to say, Mr. Speaker, ``bin Laden is now saying we need to attack Americans in Iraq. See why we got to stay there?'' No kidding. Right? No kidding. Bin Laden? Of course. We have 150,000 soldiers in a war zone. Of course, bin Laden is going to say go hit them over there. But the problem is that we are creating more terrorists.…”