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...Tuesday morning, said she and Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat, are working on legislation that would have binding recommendations for phased troop withdrawals. At the same time, she is also considering signing onto a yet-to-be-announced amendment by Republican Senators John Warner of Virginia and Richard Lugar of Indiana...
...Pelosi, too, has begun fighting back. Taking recent criticism of the President's "surge" plan by Republican Senators Richard Lugar and John Warner as evidence of a splintering opposition party, SHE PLANS TO hold one vote each week in July on the war, including a second run at a timeline for withdrawal and a bipartisan measure that would strip Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq. The idea is that if more and more Republicans are forced to turn against the President, Democrats will eventually have the votes to force Bush into a timeline for withdrawal...
That same day, one of the top foreign policy Republicans on the Hill, Senator Richard Lugar, said in a surprising 50-min. speech on the Senate floor that Bush's new "surge" plan in Iraq is failing. "In my judgment, the costs and risks of continuing down the current path outweigh the potential benefits that might be achieved" in changing gears now, Lugar said. Other Republicans, from George Voinovich to John Warner, expressed similar impatience with the progress in Iraq, indicating more defections are not far behind...
...what is becoming a full-time job, White House spokesman Tony Snow was quick to spin the Republican restlessness: "What [Lugar is] really talking about is the over-the-horizon strategy--and the President has used that term before...
...ball," a senior Administration official told me. Petraeus knows that the American public is tired of the war - tired of not winning it, at least - and that a significant chunk of the Republicans in Congress may be about to abandon President Bush, as the respected Senator Richard Lugar did on June 26. The general would love to see "a couple of weeks without explosions" before September to reinforce his probable plea for patience. But insurgent forces responded to Phantom Thunder with high-profile bombings in recent days, and they are probably saving their best shots for the weeks before Petraeus...