Biden: No more than 20 senators will support surge

January 28, 2007
Biden: No more than 20 senators will support surge

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, predicted today that no more than 20 senators would voice support for the president's troop increase in Iraq when the Senate debates resolutions opposing that plan.

Mr. Biden and other Democrats also angrily contested the Bush administration's suggestion that
their criticism of the war was emboldening the nation's enemies.