U.S. Democratic party Senator Barack Obama (C) (D-IL) poses alongside Republican Senators Chuck Hagel (L) (R-NB) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) at the start of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee business meeting on Iraq resolution, on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 24, 2007. Democrats took the first step toward a wartime repudiation of President Bush on Wednesday, convening a Senate committee to endorse legislation declaring that the deployment of additional troops to Iraq is "not in the national interest." REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)