GOP Senator: Some Troops May Come Home This Year

A GOP senator told CBS' Face The Nation he expects a progress report due in September from General Petraeus will give them a chance to scale back the number of troops in Iraq by the end of the year.

The Senator is none other than the Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), one of the President's strongest allies int he Senate on the Iraq war.

Here's what he said;

"By September, when General (David) Petraeus is to make a report, I think most
of the people in Congress believe, unless something extraordinary occurs, that
we should be on a move to draw those surge numbers down. I don't think we need
to be an occupying power. This is a fine line we've walked, and this surge has
got to be temporary. We do not need to be and cannot be perceived as just
occupying Iraq for any extended period of time."

It looks like George "Lame Duck" Bush's decider days are near over.