Iraq troop build-up 'not in US national interest'

Senate Democrats working with a well-known Republican war critic are developing a resolution declaring that US president George Bush’s troop build-up in Iraq “is not in the national interest”, says a person familiar with the document.

The resolution also would put the Senate on record as saying the US commitment in Iraq “can only be sustained” with popular support among the American public and in congress, according to an official familiar with the draft.