Clift: A Ghost Haunts the Iraq Debate
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As Congress prepares to debate Iraq, a disagreement between two leading Democrats resurrects some of the toughest questions facing the nation.
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The failure to end the debate leaves the future of one of the administrationâs chief domestic priorities in serious doubt.
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Vastly different views on Iraq show the sharp distinctions between Bush and Kerry.
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Supporters of both sides in the debate over the war in Iraq have gathered in a Delaware town every week since September 2004, sharing a faith in the power of silence.
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One would think that the cheerleaders for waging war on Saddam Hussein&#39;s Iraq, on the thoroughly discredited grounds that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, would have retreated into a period of quiet introspection.
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Iraq and terrorism dominated a hard-hitting and sometimes personal debate last night between the vice-presidential nominees, with Vice President Dick Cheney
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In a previous article on Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, I wrote that his career was framed by Iraq, a shorthand for the first and second wars in Iraq.
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Democrats relentlessly assailed President Bush's policy in Iraq as a catastrophic failure Tuesday as the House plunged into momentous debate on a war that has lost public support and cost more than 3,100 U.S. troops their lives. "No more blank checks," declared Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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On the morning of Dec. 18, 2006, the phone lines in the office of incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid suddenly lit up -- a warning signal that the coming debate over Iraq could prove a perilous exercise for congressional Democrats.
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The triumph of Jan. 30 is a fact. The shame is that Iraq-war foes can't admit it
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The intelligence community's bleak set of judgments about Iraq, made public yesterday, differs significantly from the flawed assessments of that country's alleged weapons programs that the White House released more than four years ago.
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The Bush administrationâs evidence of Iranian meddling in Iraq has received a healthy dose of skepticism.
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The war between the two Islamic sects has left the U.S.'s hopes of building a stable Iraq in ruins. A look at the roots of the struggle  - and whether anything can stop it
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are offering U.S. voters and the world two starkly different views on Iraq. The incumbent tells skeptical foreign leaders the war is part of a global fight on terror and "there is no safety in looking away." The challenger wants allies to help find a way out.
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Past presidential candidates and their critics have been known to shade the truth for political purposes. But to memory researchers, it doesn't take intentional falsifying to understand the discrepancies in the retelling of Sen. John Kerry's war experiences.
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Iraq has become the central issue in America&#39;s presidential campaign, but neither candidate has a solution for a conflict that has cost more than 1,100 American lives.
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Some days it&#39;s hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.