Reading The Washington Post’s write-up of Adm. Mullen’s call for a second U.S. troop deployment in Afghanistan this year, this poll figure stands out: the
“„“I want to hear from the president, and not just on combat troops,” Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) said in an interview. “Combat troops is like the public option” in health care, he said, quoting a conversation with Levin this month when they traveled together to Afghanistan. “Everybody can understand combat troops.”