Sen. John Warner "cuts and runs"

[Don Corleone]

I hadn't heard of him calling for troop pullbacks before, my bad. I thought the only Republican senator that was calling for them was Hagel.

[Xiahou]

I hadn't heard of him calling for troop pullbacks before, my bad. I thought the only Republican senator that was calling for them was Hagel.

He and Lugar sponsored a bill recently I believe. Don't have time to search for it at the moment though...

[Spino]

I can appreciate the poker hand logic that might be behind this action. Warner seems to be banking on the notion that a message to the Iraqi PM in the form of a 'shape up for we ship out' threat will have the desireable effect. Since it was Warner who threw this one out there I'm inclined to think he doesn't really mean it. On the other hand... Warner voted against the troop surge which actually seems to be having a positive effect so perhaps he really is in favor of calling it quits.

Whenever members of Congress flap their jaws I wonder just how familiar they actually are with the subject matter at hand? Probably not very much. Maybe Warner should, like most Congressmen, stop reading the pre-highlighted, summation paragraphs prepared for them by their assistants and pages before shooting their mouth off. Even then would it make any difference?