WASHINGTON

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Sunday that Democrats will exercise their newly won control of Congress by pushing through a resolution calling for the United States to begin withdrawing some of its 140,000 troops from Iraq within 6 months.

The United States needs to “change the course in Iraq by telling the Iraqis that our presence there is not open-ended,” said Levin, who’s in line to become chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

“We need to begin a phased redeployment from Iraq in four to six months.”

But not all Democrats agreed on the strategy. And such a resolution wouldn’t bind President George W. Bush to start pulling out U.S. forces.

Levin ruled out cutting off money for the war.

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