Richard Holbrooke, former assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration and a left-wing favorite for secretary of state in a hypothetical Kerry administration, was put in the hot seat yesterday by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). Pence asked Holbrooke “‘Do you oppose efforts to eliminate or reduce funding to our troops on the ground in Iraq?” Here’s Holbrooke:
I do. I oppose it. . . . I think that if the commander-in-chief has deployed the troops, the ultimate weapon of denying them the resources to carry out there mission only puts them in harm’s way, greater harm’s way. I would remind you that we cannot cut the troop funding.
