Top Republican (Warner) to offer Senate bill criticizing Bush's Iraq plan [View All]

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Top Republican to offer Senate bill criticizing Bush's Iraq plan
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A prominent Republican senator announced he would introduce a Senate resolution criticizing President George W. Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, in a new blow to Bush's war policy.

John Warner (news, bio, voting record), an influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined the growing chorus in Congress against Bush's plan to send 21,500 more US troops to Iraq with a resolution asking the president to reconsider his strategy.

"The purpose of this resolution is not to cut our forces at the current level or to set any timetables for withdrawal but, rather, to express the genuine, and I repeat, the genuine concerns of a number of senators from both parties about the president's plan," Warner told a news conference.

The resolution says "The Senate disagrees with the plan to augment our forces by 21,500 and urges the president instead to consider all options and alternatives for achieving the strategic goals set forth below with reduced force levels than proposed."

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Senators, from left, John Warner, R-Va., Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Norm Coleman, R-Minn., take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Jan. 22, 2007, on an Iraq War resolution. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)


Senators, from left, John Warner, R-Va., Norm Coleman, R-Minn., Susan Collins, R-Maine and Ben Nelson, D-Neb. take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 on an Iraq War resolution. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)