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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Warner bill hits Bush's troop surge

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Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia and other Republicans publicly offered a resolution yesterday condemning President Bush's proposal to send more troops to Iraq.

The "Senate disagrees with the 'plan' to augment our forces by 21,500, and urges instead to consider all options and alternatives for achieving the strategic goals set forth below with reduced force levels than proposed," wrote Mr. Warner, joined by Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Norm Coleman of Minnesota.

Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, also helped draft the nonbinding resolution.

The six-page proposal was less critical than one offered last week by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., Delaware Democrat, but still included strict instructions for how Mr. Bush should better wage the war in Iraq.

It also contained a harsh assessment of the current situation, indicating that a broad bipartisan coalition on Capitol Hill will desert the commander in chief if he presses forward with his plan to add troops.

"I feel ever so strongly that the American GI was not trained, not sent over there, certainly not by resolution of this institution, to be placed in the middle of a fight between the Sunni and the Shi'a and the wanton and just incomprehensible killing that's going on at this time," Mr. Warner told reporters yesterday.

"That's a mission that's important; we don't lessen importance of that mission. But it should be performed by the Iraqi forces and not the coalition forces," he said.

The resolution has not been formally introduced as a bill. It will be offered as an alternative to Mr. Biden's resolution when it reaches the Senate floor in the coming weeks.

The three lawmakers who were in the Senate at the time voted for the October 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. Mr. Coleman did not join the Senate until 2003.

All four took pains at yesterday's press conference in the Capitol to include conciliatory words for the administration.

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