Senators aim to revise Iraq mission, presenting Tuesday to Dems

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Key U.S. Senate Democrats are preparing a proposal to start bringing U.S. combat troops home from
Iraq by rewriting Congress' 2002 authorization for the war, which many now view as a mistake, aides said on Thursday.

Undeterred by Senate Republicans who halted a non-binding resolution opposing President George W. Bush's troop buildup in Iraq, the Democrats are determined to challenge Bush anew by replacing the 2002 authorization of force in Iraq with a narrower mission statement for U.S. troops, the aides said.

The newly defined U.S. mission would involve denying terrorists a safe haven in Iraq, training Iraqi troops and helping Iraqis protect their own borders, said one Democratic aide. The proposal would be binding and a draft calls for U.S. troops not involved in the narrower mission to come home by early 2008, he said.

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It is largely written but undergoing "tweaks" to language. Plans are to present it to all Senate Democrats at a meeting next Tuesday for debate and possible decisions on procedure for bringing it to the Senate floor, where the Democrats have a 51-49 majority.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070223/pl_nm/iraq_usa_congress_dc_1

[patrice]

1. Thanks very much for the update!

I don't know where folks like me would be without folks like you.

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yeh, but we need to take the keys completely

from this drunk in chief

[jaysunb]

3. Just keep chipping away at them...

there will be hell to pay in 08 if the republicans continue to " stand by their man."