GOP candidates squabble over Iraq
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Republican  presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee accused rival Mitt Romney on  Saturday of switching positions on President George W. Bush's  troop build-up in Iraq in a potentially crucial debate in New  Hampshire.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry sharpened their attacks over Iraq and the war against terror on Friday, neither willing to give ground after a debate that Republican strategists conceded wasn't the commander in chief's finest moment of the campaign.
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Tuesday 26 October 2004 The Republican candidate appeared to be on the defensive Monday after the announcement of the disappearance of 342 tons of explosives that the American Army was supposed to be guarding in Iraq.
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Republican  presidential contenders led by Mike Huckabee and John McCain  ganged up on rival Mitt Romney on Saturday in the first of two  back-to-back debates that could shape tight races in New  Hampshire's nominating contest.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The vice presidential candidates took their debate over Iraq and domestic issues from one battleground state to another Wednesday, Dick Cheney contending that the Democrats have been "on the wrong side" of national security issues for years while John Edwards claimed the Republicans are "in denial about everything."   Cheney and Edwards traded jabs over jobs, judgment and Iraq in what largely was a hard-fought draw Tuesday night in Cleveland...
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Six Republican candidates, one strikingly jumbled GOP race and a ton at stake in the heat of the primary season. It's the recipe for Thursday night's debate.
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The continuing debate among Republicans over whether Donald H. Rumsfeld should remain as defense secretary grew more fractious on Sunday, as two prominent senators
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Rivals debate Iraq, experience and healthcare - but strive for party unity
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President Bush and rival Sen. John Kerry paused from private debate practice on Monday to accuse each other of a lack of clarity on Iraq as they campaigned in "must win" states for each &#151; the Republican incumbent in Ohio and his Democratic challenger in Wisconsin.
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President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy continued to hemorrhage support in the U.S. Senate as another senior Republican called on Thursday for a new strategy that would start to bring troops home.
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Senate Republicans sharply challenged President Bush's top military general and ambassador in Iraq on Tuesday in a sign that some within the GOP retain serious misgivings about the protracted war.
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The second presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry was framed by lingering questions on Iraq and the economy.
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Republican John McCain tried to lump Mitt Romney with Democrats who want a timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq.
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Sen. John Kerry on Saturday blamed Republicans for squelching Senate debate on the Iraq war and warned that President Bush's plan for more troops in Iraq is a mistake.
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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 timetable to pull U.S. troops out -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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The Democratic presidential contenders squabbled over Iraq on Tuesday, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a target of criticism for her 2002 vote to authorize the war and her suggestion some U.S. troops may be there for years.
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Coral Gables, Fla. -- President Bush and Sen. John Kerry clashed repeatedly Thursday in a lively debate that highlighted their sharply contrasting views of the past and future of America&#39;s war in Iraq.