Wow! Rebuke!

House Passes Resolution Disapproving of Bush's Iraq Strategy

he House of Representatives renounced President George W. Bush's latest strategy to resolve the four-year war in Iraq, passing a nonbinding resolution that disapproves of his decision to send about 21,000 more U.S. troops to the conflict.

The vote may be the strongest rebuke of a president during wartime since Congress in 1970 rescinded the Gulf of Tonkin resolution that authorized military action in Southeast Asia.

More than a dozen members of Bush's Republican Party joined most Democrats in approving the measure by a vote of 246-182. Democrats said the resolution was a preamble to legislation that will directly challenge the administration's ability to add troops to Iraq and eventually seek to force their redeployment or withdrawal.