Via Think Progress we learn that right wing Republican Senator/GOP Presidential candidate Sam Brownback from Kansas opposes Bush's escalation plan. The Wichita Eagle has it too:Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback came out against President Bush's expected call tonight for a surge of 22,000 more troops into Iraq.
"I do not believe that sending more troops to Iraq is the answer," Brownback said while traveling in Iraq. "Iraq requires a political rather than a military solution."
Brownback had previously supported a short-term surge of troops if it could help achieve long-term political stability, which the Bush Administration has said it hopes a troop surge will help achieve.
But Brownback rejected that argument after meeting this week with several Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and U.S. military commanders.
"I came away from these meetings convinced that the United States should not increase its involvement until Sunnis and Shi'a are more willing to cooperate with each other instead of shooting at each other," Brownback said.
Significant that Brownback thinks he can't run for President as an advocate of Bush's war plan. TP is building the list of who stands where on escalation. There's not a lot of support for Bush's plan.
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