Reply #37: Wrong: Reed and Biden said exactly the opposite.

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Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said, "I respect Harry Reid on it, but that's not where I am."

Kennedy, like Reed a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said there would be widespread opposition by members of his committee if Bush proposed a troop increase.

Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said any proposal to send more troops should only follow a political solution that will end civil unrest. "The president and others who support the surge have it exactly backwards," Biden said during a speech in Manchester, N.H.

And you are mixing two different things: increase in the size of the army (what the OP is about), and surge in Iraq. They have little to do one with the others. Most democrats support the first one, which was part of the Democratic program for 06. Many oppose the second.