GOP senator says Iraq plan not working
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Sen. Richard Lugar, a senior Republican and a reliable vote for President Bush on the war, said Monday that Bush's Iraq strategy was not working and that the U.S. should downsize the military's role.
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President George W. Bush's Republicans blocked a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008 to cap a rare round-the-clock U.S. Senate debate on Wednesday.
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A long-awaited Senate showdown on the war in Iraq was shut down before it even started yesterday, when nearly all Republicans voted to stop the Senate from considering a resolution opposing President Bush's plan to send 21,500 additional combat troops into battle.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist declared Tuesday that &quot;surrendering is not a solution&quot; in Iraq as Democrats embraced a proposal to start U.S. troop withdrawals this year, setting up an election-year showdown on the war in the GOP-controlled Senate.
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A Democratic plan to take up a House bill that would set a firm withdrawal deadline in Iraq is gaining little traction with Republicans.
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Republicans blocked a debate on the Iraq war in the U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing a setback to critics of President George W. Bush's plan to send in thousands more troops, but Democrats warned they would not give up trying to force Bush to change course.
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Senator John W. Warner has attracted criticism from fellow Republicans over a resolution opposing President Bushâs Iraq policy.
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A Senate showdown on Iraq loomed Monday as Republicans said they would block a measure stating opposition to President Bush's plan to send additional troops into the nearly four-year-old war.
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The Senate on Thursday rebuffed a   call to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq this year as both   chambers of Congress engaged in high-stakes election-year   debates over the unpopular war.
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A move by Democrats to give US troops in Iraq more home leave is blocked by Republicans in the Senate.
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The White House rejected on Sunday a proposal by two influential Republican senators that would require President George W. Bush to plan for a possible troop withdrawal from Iraq by the end of the year.
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A bipartisan resolution repudiating President George W. Bush's decision to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing a serious setback to critics of the war.
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A conservative Republican senator said Sunday most lawmakers believe President Bush will focus on reducing U.S. troops in Iraq once a top general reports in September on the war's progress.
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With the U.S. Senate gridlocked over pulling troops out of Iraq, a more modest House of Representatives proposal gained momentum on Thursday as the chamber's Republican leader said he would likely vote for it.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned yesterday that a new Democratic effort to repeal the 2002 Iraq war resolution would meet the same fate as two previous efforts to limit President Bush's authority: blocked by procedural obstacles, unless Democrats relent to GOP terms.
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Senate Democrats on Monday attacked the House Republican plan to address the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations, with one senator calling its proposal for a national intelligence director "too weak."
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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.