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Despite the fact the 70 percent of Americans support withdrawing almost all U.S.

A week does not go by without at least one or two Republican Senators coming forward and saying, what many of us have known for months that the president's Iraq strategy has failed.

Yesterday an influential Republican voice on foreign affairs admitted that the war in Iraq is doing more harm than good, and that "our course in Iraq has lost contact with our vital national security interests in the Middle East and beyond."

For six years President Bush and Republican Congresses ignored the record gas prices that seem to pop up every year just before Memorial Day. Once again, this year, American consumers, are paying for their inaction.

We keep on hearing all these doomsday scenarios from the White House and our Republican colleagues about the emergency supplemental bill. It would be nice if they'd listen to the President's own Defense Secretary who said this week that our timelines are already creating positive results in Iraq.

As the president prepares to meet with Congressional leaders today to discuss the emergency supplemental he should listen to his own Secretary of Defense, who said that Congress' timelines have been useful in forcing the Iraqi government to make compromises that have been elusive in the past.

This week the House will have a chance to move the Iraq war in a new direction---one that holds the Iraqi government accountable for meeting benchmarks that it already promised it could make.

American involvement in Iraq should not be an open-ended proposition, and we should not be sending more troops there to serve as referees in that nation's devastating civil war.