U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole is adopting a more skeptical tone of the Iraq war.
In two recent news articles, the Salisbury Republican was quoted as being more critical of the war than she has in the past.
The Washington Post noted Wednesday that Dole, "a mainstream conservative who was never publicly strayed from the administration's position in Iraq," has said she would now support some Congressional measures to force a change in policy:
"The difficulty of the current American and Iraqi situation is rooted in large part in the Bush administration's substantial failure to understand the full implications of our military invasion and the litany of mistakes made at the outset of the war," Dole said.
The New York Times also noted that Dole told General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker that a "conspicuous gap" exists between supporters and opponents of a long-term commitment in Iraq.
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