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Levin: Modify 2002 resolution allowing war
By UPI Staff
United Press International
February 19, 2007
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A top Democrat says Congress should modify the "wide-open" 2002 resolution that authorized the U.S. war in Iraq so that it now only allows a non-combat mission.
Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, appeared on "Fox News Sunday."
"That was a wide open authorization," Levin said, which allowed President Bush "to do just about anything, and put us now deep into combat in Iraq, and now into the neighborhoods of Baghdad."
Levin, who did not vote for the 2002 resolution, said U.S. troops can have "a much more limited mission that we authorized ... a much more limited mission which will remove our troops from the middle of a sectarian civil war."
The senator said a modified resolution should allow the U.S. military to pursue al-Qaida in Iraq, train the Iraqi army and protect U.S. personnel, but not to launch combat operations.
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