Retiring GOP Rep.: Iraq War Unjustified
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A top Republican congressman has broken from his party in the final days of his House career, saying he believes the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified and the situation there has deteriorated into "a dangerous, costly mess."
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U.S. News & World Report - Throughout the presidential campaign, the Republicans have shown remarkable discipline in their public messages--but the deteriorating situation in Iraq is testing some of that unity. The strain was evident at a Senate hearing last week where Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel unloaded on the Bush administration's sluggish reconstruction efforts in Iraq. &quot;It's beyond pitiful; it's beyond embarrassing. It is now in the zone of dangerous,&quot; he thundered. ...
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Breaking ranks with the White House and his Republican leaders in Congress, Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska has said in a letter to constituents the US military action in Iraq was a mistake.
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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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Leading Republicans in Congress on Thursday declared that troop withdrawal legislation should be scrapped because the United States has made significant progress in the Iraq war, just as Democrats were resuming efforts to bring soldiers home.
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WASHINGTON - Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., joined a growing chorus of Republicans urging the removal of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld because of the Pentagon chief&#39;s failure to call for more troops in Iraq and to properly equip
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A former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman asserted Sunday that the general who ran the war in Afghanistan said more than a year before the US-led invasion of Iraq
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Republican presidential candidates  need to make a &quot;clean break&quot; from President George W. Bush and  the U.S. government or they will lose in November 2008, a  veteran Republican leader said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Breaking ranks with his party and his own earlier stance, a senior retiring Republican lawmaker said Wednesday the military strike against Iraq was &quot;a mistake,&quot; and he blasted a &quot;massive failure&quot; of intelligence before the war.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney conceded that the war in Iraq has been poorly managed and may hurt Republicans again next year, but he refused to oppose the course President Bush has charted.
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ASHINGTON, Aug. 18 - Representative Doug Bereuter of Nebraska, a respected Republican voice on intelligence issues who is retiring from Congress, is telling his constituents that he now considers the war in Iraq a mistake despite his earlier ...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history.
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Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Tuesday said that the war in Iraq was "a chosen war, not one based on a necessity". But, in an interview with the Austria Press Agency, Albright said: "To ...
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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.
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FORT MYERS, Florida  - The Iraq war reclaimed the spotlight in the Republican race for the White House on Saturday as front-runner John McCain accused rival Mitt Romney of backing a set withdrawal of U.S. troops -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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Sen. John W. Warner, one of the most influential Republican voices in Congress on national security, called on President Bush yesterday to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq in time for Christmas as a new intelligence report concluded that political leaders in Baghdad are "unable to govern...
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The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.