A ten term Republican Congressmember from North Carolina says the United States should consider pulling its troops out of Iraq. North Carolina Representative Howard Coble told the News & Record of Greensboro that he’s “fed up with picking up the newspaper and reading that we’ve lost another five or 10 of our young men and women in Iraq.” The dean of the state’s congressional delegation said he arrived at his position only after many months of searching in vain for evidence that the Bush administration had a post-invasion strategy to deal with the transition to Iraqi self-government. Coble says he voted to give Bush sweeping war-making powers assuming the administration had a post-invasion strategy. In the interview, he said, “If there was a strategy, I wish someone would tell me what it is or show it to me. I’d like to see it.” The congressman said he thought Bush was correct in attacking Iraq, and that he and most of his constituents still believe it was the right decision. The congressman from Greensboro said he is aware that few members of Congress have said openly that the country should consider withdrawing from Iraq. More than a year ago, Republican Congressmember James Leach of Iowa said on the House floor that the United States should begin a withdrawal that would be complete by the end of 2004.