Democrats craft Iraq troop withdrawal deadline
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. House  of Representatives have tentatively settled on a timetable and  conditions for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, which they  hope to attach to a $100 billion Iraq war spending bill, senior  lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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Democratic presidential contenders on Capitol Hill will cast critical votes on the Iraq war this week
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House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said Thursday.
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Senate Republicans scuttled a Democratic proposal ordering troop withdrawals from Iraq in a showdown Wednesday that capped an all-night debate on the war
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U.S. House of Representatives  Democrats unveiled a resolution on Monday opposing a troop  buildup in Iraq, setting up a confrontation this week over  President George W. Bush's war strategy.
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House Democratic leaders intend to propose legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of 2008, and even earlier if the Iraqi government fails to meet security and other goals, congressional officials said Wednesday night.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted Sunday night it's time to start pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq as she and her Democratic presidential rivals debated the war on the eve of a much-awaited assessment by U.S. commanding Gen. David Petraeus.
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House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said
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Bloomberg - Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The three leading Democratic presidential candidates said the U.S. should plan to withdraw troops from Iraq no matter what the Army&#39;s top commander says in a report to Congress today because a military win is impossible.
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The emerging plan by the Iraq Study Group tries to find a middle road between President Bush's adamant refusal to leave Iraq until the job is done and Democratic demands to pull out U.S. troops. But in achieving unanimity among its Republican and Democratic members, the commission has outlined a...
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The Senate this week will pull its first all-night debate on the Iraq war in advance of a vote on whether to bring home all combat troops by next spring, Democrats said Monday.
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Senior House Democrats, seeking to placate members of their party from Republican-leaning districts, are pushing a plan that would place restrictions on President Bush's ability to wage the war in Iraq but would allow him to waive them if he publicly justifies  his position.
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The United States and Iraq are crafting a two-pronged plan to prepare for Iraq&#39;s first democratic election in January, combining a fall military offensive to evict insurgents
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Democrats said President Bush must be ready to cooperate with Congress in finding a way forward, and eventually out of, Iraq.
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The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to consider a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq after Republican opponents blocked two previous attempts at debating the unpopular war.
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Senate Democrats hope to lure more Republican votes for a policy shift in Iraq by giving emphasis to a change of mission for U.S. troops there.
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The debate over the Iraq War resumes in the Senate on Monday, when Democrats will use the defense authorization bill to spotlight their demands to bring U.S. troops home.