Matt Ortega

Senator John Warner (R-Virginia) returned from a trip to Iraq recently and today he held a press conference calling on President Bush to set a timetable for withdrawal starting in September. Think Progress’ Faiz Shakir writes:

Sen. John Warner (R-VA), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently returned from a visit to Iraq. Today, he held a press conference to discuss his impressions from that trip.

Frustrated with the lack of political progress in Iraq, Warner said it is time to put some “meaningful teeth” into Bush’s claim that the U.S. commitment to Iraq “is not open-ended.” Warner said he is calling on President Bush to announce on Sept. 15 that he will “initiate the first step in a withdrawal.”