Rockefeller says Iraq is draining funds

January 23, 2007 Senator (D), great-grandson of oil tycoon  and chairman of the , said that 's "Iraq adventure" was draining funds from homeland security and other domestic priorities such as education, health care, the environment. also added that he was concerned that the was going towards a military confrontation with. He said, "Do I think it's possible that the president could get us involved marginally or even more fully in Iran as a way of distracting us from the war on terror, and from Iraq, as a way of getting past the elections in 2008? I don't want to believe that. But after what I have been through with him … yes, I worry about it enormously."