Yesterday Senate Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee criticized the president’s request to divert more than $3 billion from reconstruction projects to security measures. Of the $18.4 billion Congress approved last year for Iraqi reconstruction, only $1.1 billion has been spent because of violence and other problems. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska called that record * “beyond pitiful and embarrassing; it is now in the zone of dangerous.”* Hagel said the shift in funds shows that the U.S. is “in deep trouble.”