Republican support for Iraq war slips

[CMF Newsman]

WASHINGTON - Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home.

"We must not abandon our mission, but we must begin a transition where the Iraqi government and its neighbors play a larger role in stabilizing Iraq," Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to Bush.

Voinovich, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released his letter Tuesday — one day after Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the panel's top Republican, said in a floor speech that Bush's strategy was not working.

"The longer we delay the planning for a redeployment, the less likely it is to be successful," said Lugar, who plans to meet later this week with Stephen Hadley, Bush's national security adviser.

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[vanstheman]

As we get closer and closer to election year,even some of the most stalwart supporters will cave to the obvious and think of their own re-election hides.Lugar is just the first to jump from the "lame-duck" ship.

[Dreamwebber]

Agrees with vans but, fwiw, isn't Luger a Repub who swings with the dems on many issues. I thought he was one of those moderates

[vanstheman]

It only took about 10 days for the next "big fish" to bite the bait.Domenici is up for re-election.

Politcal cowards who knew long ago that this "Iraqi" war,not the war on terrorism,was a fraud from the outset.