Analysis: Candidates face limits on Iraq
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Five senators vying to become commander in chief railed, postured and questioned the top U.S. general in Iraq about the war Tuesday &#151; all they can do unless they get their wish, win the election next year and inherit the quagmire.
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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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President Bush has not been shy about asserting robust powers for the presidency in waging war, but lately he has seemed to concede that Congress has a role to play as well. Lawmakers, he has indicated, are within their rights to try to cap total deployments or limit where troops can go in Iraq.
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For all the slashing rhetoric between the two presidential candidates over Iraq, whoever wins the White House Nov. 2 comes to a difficult situation with roughly the same set of options, few of them good.
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Even before they cast symbolic votes against the Iraq war, newly empowered congressional Democrats are clamoring for a chance to limit and eventually end U.S. involvement in a conflict that has killed more than 3,000 troops.
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The debate in Washington over troop numbers is intense. But in Baghdad, there's been little sense of alarm or urgency among the Iraqi politicians who would have the most to lose if the United States decides to begin a major pull back.
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WASHINGTON - There are two presidential races going on: One here, one in Iraq. George Bush has to convince voters he isn&#39;t losing the second to be sure of winning the first.
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The campaign's focus on Iraq holds  risks and rewards for President Bush and Democratic rival John  Kerry and it could leave both at the mercy of unpredictable  events as Iraq becomes more unstable.
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Anxiety over the Bush administration&#39;s handling of Iraq and the economy may have voters in some states second-guessing who to send to the White House.
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The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.
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As the presidential election draws near, an important consideration for voters should be who would best manage the transition of the liberated country of Iraq into a democracy, the incumbent, President George Bush, or the challenger, Sen. John F. Kerry.
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In less than a week, Iraq could be John Kerry&#39;s war. If the Democrats win on Nov. 2, the president-elect must immediately focus on what a US military withdrawal from Iraq would mean for the Middle East and for the United States.
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Both major candidates for president want the country to be less dependent on foreign oil. But whoever is elected will face many of the same challenges that defeated
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WASHINGTON As the presidential candidates prepare to devote their first debate, on Thursday, to foreign policy, it is an axiom of their campaigns that these men could not offer a starker choice on America&#39;s role in the world.
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Our position is: Thorough debate of US policies in Iraq is needed between now and Election Day. After months of battling over a war that ended 30 years ago, the presidential candidates have finally begun to
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Wide public discontent over the war in Iraq helped sweep Democrats to the control of Congress last year. But Iraq is becoming less of an issue for both parties, either on the campaign trail or in the nation's capital, ahead of the fast-approaching presidential primaries.
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Officials suggested that the presidentâs advisers were locked in internal debates on several fronts about how to proceed in Iraq.