Latest: Webb amendment longshot with Warner switchover

Today John Warner (D-VA) changed his mind and now opposes the Webb measure...seems like a long shot now. From CQ TODAY:

Amendment to Limit Troop Deployments Faces Long Odds Sept. 19, 2007 – 1:35 p.m. By John M. Donnelly, CQ Staff: An amendment to mandate minimum rest times for U.S. troops between deployments faced long odds Wednesday after an influential Republican senator switched his position and said he would vote against it.

John W. Warner, R-Va., a senior Armed Services Committee member who voted for the amendment by Jim Webb, D-Va., when it last came to the floor in July, said he had changed his mind. He said the ranks of military specialists are so thin in many positions that commanders on the ground would be seriously hobbled by mandatory “dwell times” between deployments. Bush administration officials have been furiously lobbying moderate Republican senators to oppose the measure...