2008 Democratic hopefuls call for Iraq war's end
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Six Democratic presidential hopefuls  courted party leaders on Friday with calls to end the Iraq war  but offered divergent views on how to do it, saying the debate  would be a crucial test of Democratic leadership.
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Senate Democrats are revising their major war legislation to attract votes to pass and potentially launch a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by yearÃ¢ÂÂs end.
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Liberal activists, disgruntled that the Democratic Party takeover of Congress has not expedited an end to the Iraq war, have threatened to sponsor 2008 primary challenges to House Democrats who they believe haven't been tough enough in standing up to President Bush.
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As the debate over Iraq intensifies, leading Democrat Sylvestre Reyes is calling for the deployment of more U.S. troops.
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Democrats want a different direction in Iraq. Republicans back President Bush.
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Consigned by the voters to another season out of power, Democrats are eager to lay down markers for President Bush and congressional Republicans on Iraq, Social Security and more at the same time they try to absorb the lessons of last fall's elections.
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The Iraq war was the dominant issue confronting Democratic presidential candidates Sunday night at their second televised debate of the campaign, this one in the leadoff primary state.
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Democratic leaders vowed Friday to keep up the pressure on President George W. Bush to end the Iraq war with more votes next month on withdrawing U.S. troops.
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When two Democrats looking toward 2008 pushed hard for a firm date on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, they crashed headlong into Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid&#039;s effort to retake the Senate this year.
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Democrats need to do something dramatic, even histrionic, to dispel the perception they are powerless to stop the Iraq War.
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Eight Democratic  presidential contenders sparred gently on Wednesday on how to  end the Iraq war, and Hillary Rodham Clinton decried "the  politics of personal destruction" during the first joint  appearance of an already heated 2008 campaign.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Sunday he wanted a total withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq and that American troops are targets in a civil war.
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Six Democratic presidential hopefuls courted party leaders on Friday with calls to end the Iraq war but offered divergent views on how to do it, saying the debate would be a crucial test of Democratic leadership.
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The Democratic presidential hopefuls  scrambled for advantage in the widening debate over Iraq on  Wednesday, with Barack Obama calling for combat troops to come  home by the end of 2008 and Hillary Clinton asking the White  House to speed any withdrawal.
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Whether the next president is a Democrat or a Republican, it looks like the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is permanent until further notice. In the Democratic presidential debate last night, none of the top three hopefuls would commit to withdrawing all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013 (which would be the 10th anniversary of the invasion).
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Anti-war House members are urging colleagues to set a "clear timeline" for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, challenging Democrats to assume the political risk of ending the war. Leaders of the "Out of Iraq Caucus"  argue that costs of the war have become "unsustainable," damaging efforts to battle terrorism and costing more than $8 billion a month.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who has fiercely debated the U.S. military presence in Iraq with his rivals, said Tuesday that he believes Iowa voters don't find much disagreement among Democrats on how to bring the war to an end.