Pelosi calls Iraq war a âgrotesque mistakeâ
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WASHINGTON - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday called the war in Iraq a âgrotesque mistakeâ that has not made the United States safer.
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The US House of Representative was entering a second day of debate over President George W. Bush's war policy in Iraq, with opponents calling a symbolic measure being discussed a &quot;charade&quot; that comforts terrorists and US enemies.
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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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Iraqi lawmakers said on Saturday that Washington should take responsibility for the turmoil in Iraq and stop blaming Baghdad, Iran and Syria.
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President Bush's war strategy is failing and the top military commander in Iraq is "dead flat wrong" for warning against major changes, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday.
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Leading members of President Bush's  Republican Party on Sunday criticized mistakes and  "incompetence" in his Iraq policy and called for an urgent  ground offensive to retake insurgent sanctuaries.
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Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday harshly criticized the Iraq strategy advocated by Democratic leaders in Congress, saying their approach would "validate the al-Qaida strategy." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fired back that Cheney's remarks were out of bounds.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.
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Democrat Nancy Pelosi's pledge of a new direction took a detour when she fumbled an Armenian genocide resolution and raised questions about her leadership as the highest ranking member of the U.S. Congress.
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Nancy PelosiÂs public blunder has lessons for the workplace, too.
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Vice President Dick Cheney offered a sharp rebuke to congressional Democrats on Monday, warning that a drawdown of forces in Iraq would invite more attacks on the United States.
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The Democratic presidential candidate, seizing on criticism of the Bush administration's Iraq policy by the former U.S. governor in Baghdad, called on President Bush give Americans a full accounting of what has gone wrong in Iraq.
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A group of Senate Democrats opposing  the nomination of Condoleezza Rice as U.S. secretary of state  on Tuesday accused her of deceiving Congress and called her an  architect of blunders in the Iraq war.
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Tempers flared on Iraq among Democrats on Tuesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fielded criticism from an anti-war congresswoman over liberals' concern that the party is not doing enough to end the war.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Friday denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup  in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular  war strategy.
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Sen. Russ Feingold, one of the first lawmakers to call for a timetable to withdraw troops from Iraq, argued on Thursday that it would be wrong to categorize him as an anti-war Democrat.
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Iraq's beleaguered prime minister lashed out Sunday at his U.S. critics, saying they don't appreciate the country's achievements and fail to understand how difficult it is to rebuild after decades of war and dictatorship.