Reuters:
The former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee said he opposes efforts to limit President George W. Bush's U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, but acknowledged the president's supporters face an uphill fight in maintaining Congress' support for full funding.
"It's going to be tough to get the votes" for full funding, Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran told Reuters in an interview.
Democrats "feel like they won this election and this right to control the Congress because of disagreements that the majority of the American people have had with the waging of the war," Cochran said. But some states back the war with his home state of Mississippi continuing to support Bush, he added.
I'm not so sure that Democrats 'feel like' they won by running against the war so much as they did win by running against the war. Still, it's nice to know he thinks it's going to be hard.
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