WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John McCain sought to weaken support for a resolution opposing President Bush's Iraq war strategy Sunday, saying proponents are intellectually dishonest. ``I don't think it's appropriate to say that you disapprove of a mission and you don't want to fund it and you don't want it to go, but yet you don't take the action necessary to prevent it,'' said McCain, top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a 2008 presidential candidate from Arizona.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called GOP efforts to block a vote on the resolution ``obstructionism.'' Neither a Senate majority nor voters, she said, will tolerate such a delaying tactic. ``If we can't get this done, you can be sure a month or so down the pike, there's going to be much stronger legislation,'' she said.
The Senate, where Democrats hold a 51-49 working majority, has tentatively set an early test vote for Monday on the nonbinding resolution by Sen. John Warner, R-Va. In a bid to attract more GOP support, Warner added a provision pledging to protect money for troops in combat.