Skelton: Refocus On 'Forgotten War'

Kansas City's KMPC-TV reports:

Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton has a new take on the war on terror -- he is advocating taking some troops from Iraq and sending them to Afghanistan.

Skelton said the Iraq invasion has turned the campaign in Afghanistan into "The Forgotten War," and it is now a place where the Taliban and the drug lords are coming back.

"I believe we must reinforce the success in Afghanistan by sending some portion of the forces being withdrawn from Iraq to Afghanistan," Skelton said Monday in a speech at the Truman Library.

The speech was streamed on the Internet by Webster University as part of its public policy series.

Skelton is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

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