WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., says his memories of Vietnam are behind his vocal opposition to President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq.
"I regret that I was not more outspoken" during the Vietnam War," Warner
a leading Republican opponent to Bush's Iraq plan, told Sunday's Washington Post.
"The Army generals would come in, 'Just send in another five or 10,000.' You know, month after month. Another 10 or 15,000," he said. "They thought they could win it. We kept surging in those years. It didn't work."
Warner has proposed the Senate declare of a lack of confidence in the president's plan to send 21,500 soldiers to Iraq -- a proposal the Post said could be seen as an affront to the president.
The 80-year-old Warner didn't seem bothered by that.
"I gotta tell you, I've gotten to that wonderful age in life -- I don't worry," he said. "If you do what in your heart you feel is right, go to sleep. Don't worry. I go to sleep and I don't worry."
