2 GOP senators back troop reduction in Iraq - Their support for the nonbinding resolution is one more indicator of Republican discontent with Bush's strategy - Los Angeles Times
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"In another sign that congressional Republicans are losing patience with the White House war strategy, two GOP senators Thursday got behind new legislation designed to encourage the Bush administration to reduce U.S. military involvement in Iraq.
Sens. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Gordon Smith of Oregon are cosponsoring a nonbinding resolution by Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) that urges decentralizing the Iraqi government and creating semiautonomous regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Biden has been championing the plan for more than a year.
That comes a day after five GOP senators signed on to separate legislation that would enact the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which envisioned most U.S. combat troops coming home by early 2008.
That legislation — proposed by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) — has the backing of several GOP loyalists, including Sens. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire and Robert F. Bennett of Utah."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-warvote8jun08,0,7717611.story?coll=la-tot-national&track=ntothtml
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