Activities in Congress
Rosemary Palmer and Paul Schroeder with Senators Joseph Biden, D-Delaware and George
Voinovich, R-Ohio
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"The closer we get to leaving, it's clear this is less
and less worth the cost. ...We don't have enough troops to do this.
We can't hold these places."
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, told the panel these were the words of Marine LCPL Edward "Augie"
Schroeder, killed August 3, 2005 near Haditha, Iraq. "We're trying to
find out if this has been worth it," Biden said.
He read from written
testimony to the Committee from Families of the Fallen for Change.
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