Senators question Iraq panel's strategy
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Senators sharply questioned an Iraq commission's call for a new U.S. war strategy Thursday, saying the Bush administration and Congress must work urgently together to find a more effective approach.
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T wo Republican senators, two wildly different takes on yesterday's Iraq hearings.
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A lengthy Senate floor debate on the Iraq war is inevitable, despite a Republican effort to block it, Democrats say
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Two senators said on Sunday they were troubled by a report that US intelligence officials secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq in the last six months, possibly violating international treaties.
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Accusing Republicans of failing to   adequately monitor the conduct of the war in Iraq, Senate   Democrats on Wednesday announced their own series of hearings   into what they called a failed policy.
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U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq  strategy is a "tragic mistake," Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman  of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on  Thursday.
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Five senators vying to become commander in chief railed, postured and questioned the top U.S. general in Iraq about the war Tuesday &#151; all they can do unless they get their wish, win the election next year and inherit the quagmire.
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President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy continued to hemorrhage support in the U.S. Senate as another senior Republican called on Thursday for a new strategy that would start to bring troops home.
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Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran into stiff resistance yesterday from an unexpected quarter -- fellow Democrats.
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Senate leaders said Tuesday they will hold off debating a repeal of the 2002 Iraq war authorization, possibly due to divisions that have emerged in the Democratic caucus over how to proceed on addressing the war in Iraq.
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Democrats in the Senate planned to begin debating on Wednesday a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, but Republicans made clear they opposed the measure and would try to prevent its passage.
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The U.S. Senate moved a step closer to repudiating U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy on Thursday when a key Democrat backed a Republican-crafted proposal opposing a troop increase.
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The chairmen of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group today urged President Bush to follow their full slate of recommendations, as one key Senator criticized the panel's report as a recipe for defeat.
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Slate: "Republican Senator John Warner asked General David Petraeus whether the current strategy in Iraq 'will make America safer.'" Petraeus: "I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq." Warner repeated: "Does that make America safer?" Petraeus: "I don't know, actually."
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The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee sought to weaken support for a resolution opposing President Bush's Iraq war strategy, saying Sunday that supporters are intellectually dishonest.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home.
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A leading Senate Republican on defense issues, Sen. John Warner, will call on President Bush to solicit privately the opinions of Democrats before forging a new strategy on Iraq.