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Senate resolution has combat troops out of Iraq in a year
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Feb 23, 2007 04:13pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Friday, February 23, 2007 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- New details are emerging about how Senate Democrats will seek to narrow the 2002 war authorization and limit the military's role in Iraq.
Sens. Joseph Biden and Carl Levin will have a draft resolution ready as early as Tuesday that amends the 2002 authorization that Congress gave President Bush to go to war in Iraq, according to senior Democratic aides.
The draft resolution will call for all combat forces to be removed from Iraq by March 2008 and for remaining forces to be there only for counterterrorism operations and for training Iraqi forces, according to sources.
Whether Congress can impose such restriction will be highly debated. Constitutional scholars disagree on whether Congress can dictate to a president when and how he can deploy troops or whether that would impinge on the president's authority as commander in chief. |
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