Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 | 10:54 a.m.
Dina Titus speaks during a meeting with the Las Vegas Sun editorial board on January 5, 2010.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Dina Titus returned this morning from a weekend trip to Afghanistan, where she met with military leaders on a fact-finding mission to learn more about the war effort.
Titus met with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, as well as troops with family members who live in her Southern Nevada district.
The congresswoman traveled to Kuwait on Friday and then spent the weekend in Afghanistan as part of a congressional delegation. Five other congresswomen were part of the delegation.
Titus has been reluctant to endorse President Barack Obama’s decision to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
When the president announced his decision in December, Titus said at the time: “I’m not taking a position. I deserve some time to study it myself.”
A Democrat who first ran for office in 2008 against the war, Titus now faces two potential Republican challengers with military credentials as she seeks re-election this fall. Republicans Joe Heck and Rob Lauer have both served in reserve units.
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