Senate Candidate Al Franken says he's on a mission to expose his opponent, current U.S. Senator Norm Coleman's lack of over-sight in Iraq.

Franken says Coleman should have followed in Senator Harry Truman's World War II footsteps, by ensuring everything went smoothly and according to plan.

He says Coleman cost American tax-pays more than $15 billion because he failed to pay attention to what was and wasn't being done correctly during the Iraqi reconstruction.

"I would have been going to Iraq to make sure that reconstruction efforts were going well and that the contractors were doing what they were supposed to do and I'm talking about immediately after we set foot in Iraq," Franken said, "now it turns out Norm Coleman did not go to Iraq until January or 2005."

Coleman's campaign released a statement today combatting Franken's attacks.

The campaign says Coleman has an aggressive record of oversight; that he helped expose over $70 billion in government waste, fraud and abuse... exactly the opposite of what Franken claims.

Franken made his remarks Monday at Monaco Air Duluth before flying to Saint Paul to address a crowd at the State Capitol.