Senator who backed Bush on Iraq war now fights for political life
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A US Senate election has become a barometer of disgust with the war in Iraq, as Democratic incumbent Joseph Lieberman -- a strong supporter of US policy there -- fights for his political life against a little-known challenger.
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The war is creating a nasty array of problems for President Bush as he gears up for an ambitious second term.
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The Iraq War is center stage again in Connecticut's increasingly nasty Senate race. Ned Lamont, whose upset of Sen. Joe Lieberman in last month's Democratic primary was fueled in large part by his opposition to the war, took fresh aim at Lieberman's staunch support of the conflict in a new television ad Thursday.
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EVANSTON, Ill. Lest there be any doubt where Rep. Jan Schakowsky stands, her house is the one with the two red-and-white yard signs, installed just last week, that call out, "Support The Troops. END THE WAR." The Illinois Democrat, one of the most outspoken Iraq war opponents in Congress, was uni...
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Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, a Republican who voted in favor of the Iraq war in 2002 and has supported it ever since, now says the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal."
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Six years after Democrats backed him for vice president, Sen. Joe Lieberman struggled to overcome a tough challenge in Tuesday's primary and escape retribution from his own party for supporting the Iraq war.
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One of the war's staunch Republican backers in the Senate now tells TIME he's giving the Iraq government 90 days to get its act together
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The hotly contested race to fill Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide bombers.
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Republicans blocked a full-fledged Senate debate over Iraq on Monday, but Democrats vowed they would eventually find a way to force President Bush to change course in a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. troops.
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The only senator from President   George W. Bush's Republican party to vote against the Iraq War   battled for political survival on Tuesday as voters in nine   states chose candidates for an election that could shift   control of the U.S. Congress to the Democrats.
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For months, Sen. John Warner has been looked upon as the man who could &#151; at any moment &#151; tip the Iraq debate on Capitol Hill because of his influence on a Republican caucus growing increasingly uneasy about the war.
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One of the most influential Republican senators in the US rounded on President George Bush over Iraq yesterday, saying the military surge begun in February has little chance of success.
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A resolution rebuking President George W. Bush over his new strategy in Iraq moves to the US Senate Saturday, one day after it passed the House in a rare wartime blow to the US commander-in-chief.
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Democrats' efforts to challenge President Bush's Iraq policies were dealt a demoralizing blow Wednesday in the Senate after they failed to scrape together enough support to guarantee troops more time at home.
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A large portrait of Mike Mansfield, dogged Democratic foe of the Vietnam war, hangs near the Senate chamber where a new generation of Democrats is trying to stop another unpopular conflict -- in Iraq.
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SYDNEY -- On one side is the incumbent, a conservative career politician who steadfastly defends his decision to send troops to Iraq.
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A longtime congressman who voted for the Iraq war but later said he regretted the decision was defeated Tuesday by a well-funded Republican state senator.