Democrats say close to new Iraq resolution

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The U.S. Democratic-led Senate is moving closer to rewriting the measure that paved the way for
President Bush to invade Iraq nearly four years ago, two top Democratic lawmakers said on Sunday.

The move would not repeal the Senate's 2002 vote authorizing the war, but instead limit the mission of U.S. troops to focus on counter-terrorism efforts such as protecting Iraq's borders, said Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee

"It will not be combat in the middle of Baghdad. It will be a transition to a more limited mission of supporting the Baghdad army training and logistics," the Michigan Democrat told CBS's "Face the Nation."

He added the measure, expected to come up this week, would be binding.
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"We are coming to a very broad consensus, and that consensus ... is this: that we ought to change the mission," Schumer, vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Conference, told ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "We want to change it, to have a much more narrow focus."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070304/pl_nm/iraq_usa_congress_dc_1

[mike_c]

1. dammit-- "the mission" is an international crime committed in our names....

America needs to GET OUT of Iraq.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Agreed

I want to hear some prominent Democrat say just that. I don't expect any of them to do so, however.