From NBC yesterday, John Warner, asked if he might support a Democratic-led effort in the Senate to force a pullout from Iraq:

I'm going to have to evaluate it. I don't say that as a threat, but I say that is an option we all have to consider. ... That's precisely what I said to the president. I said, 'Here is an option. You can initiate a first withdrawal. You pick the number, Mr. President. And it would send a signal to the Iraqi government that matches your words. His words being, `We're not going to be there forever.' ... The president has got to put teeth in these comments that we're not there forever. ... We've got to show our resolve in the face of the Iraqi government inaction. I'm looking for in that message of the 15th what the president's going to do to get this (Iraqi) government jump-started to deliver on its commitment to our troops, 'You fight and die, get the security, I will deliver Iraq as a reconciled unity government.'

Clearly, we have a problem and we'd better solve it. ... This week, I have learned, the Department of Defense and our field commanders in Iraq ... are going to sit down and communicate with the White House team and reconcile such difference of views and approaches as they have. The team in Iraq wanted to stay there with the full force as long as they can, obviously. The team back home are looking at the broader picture.

Added Mitch McConnell, on Fox News Sunday:

It's entirely possible that the president will lay out a strategy that takes us into a different place. ... I think a lot of our members would be surprised if there was not some level of draw-down over the next coming months.

And Senator Sam Brownback, appearing on WIBW in Kansas:

I wasn't for the troop surge at first...but we need a political solution now...Now is the time to do that.