New York; The US Congress, controlled by Democrats, will not block funding for the additional American troops being sent to Iraq despite its strong opposition, house speaker Nancy Pelosi has said.

The Democrats would not be held responsible for putting the soldiers in the troop surge in additional harm's way, Pelosi told sources.

The interview came after group of Senators announced a bipartisan resolution condemning the Bush administration's plan to induct more than 20,000 fresh American troops in Iraq to stem bloody sectarian conflict, which has taken thousand of lives. The resolution is non-binding.

"Democrats will never cut off the funding for our troops when they are in harm's way but it would be very difficult for the President to sustain a war of this magnitude without support of American people and without support of the Congress," Pelosi said.

"That's why Congress will vote to oppose the President's escalation from the standpoint of policy. We will have our disagreement," Pelosi said, according to the excerpt of the interview released yesterday. The interview is yet to be telecast.

"The President, she said, knows that because the troops are in the harm's way, the Congress would not cut off the resources. That's why he is moving so quickly to put them in," she added.