Reply #4: Here is CNN's skimpy version of what Byrd said today

[IndianaGreen]

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, the Senate's senior member and a fierce critic of the war, said he heard "echoes of Vietnam" in the talk of increasing U.S. forces in Iraq.

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Byrd, whose 45 years in the Senate encompass the Vietnam War, said the American deaths and increased fighting across Iraq should prompt the administration to figure out how to bring troops home, not send more there.

"Surely I am not the only one who hears echoes of Vietnam in this development," Byrd said in a speech on the Senate floor. "Surely, the administration recognizes that increasing the U.S. troop presence in Iraq will only suck us deeper, deeper into the maelstrom, into the quicksand of violence that has become the hallmark of that unfortunate, miserable country."

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Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut were among several Democrats who supported the idea of sending additional troops. :puke:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/07/congress.iraq.ap/index.html