The Senate's top Democrat offered qualified support Sunday for a plan to increase U.S. troops in
Iraq, saying it would be acceptable as part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by 2008.
President Bush's former secretary of state, however, expressed doubts any troop surge would be effective, noting U.S. forces already are overextended. "The American Army isn't large enough to secure Baghdad," said
Colin Powell, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman during the 1991
Gulf War.