Iraq fires Democrats as 2008 rivals square off
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Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls were unleashing their first direct blows of the 2008 campaign, as their ebullient party targeted the White House.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry went on the offensive against President George W. Bush's planning of the Iraq war.
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Eight Democratic  presidential contenders sparred gently on Wednesday on how to  end the Iraq war, and Hillary Rodham Clinton decried "the  politics of personal destruction" during the first joint  appearance of an already heated 2008 campaign.
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Tempers flared on Iraq among Democrats on Tuesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fielded criticism from an anti-war congresswoman over liberals' concern that the party is not doing enough to end the war.
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U.S. lawmakers squared off on Tuesday over President George W. Bush's troop buildup in Iraq, with Democrats declaring Americans had lost faith in the war and Republicans warning against undermining the U.S. struggle with terrorism.
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A senior Democrat said Tuesday it was obvious the Iraqi government has made no progress and the only way to propel it was to begin pulling out U.S. troops.
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CLEVELAND - Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush have clashed repeatedly over Iraq, with the Democrat branding it &#39;the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time&#39;.
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Democratic  presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton  clashed sharply over Iraq and spending in a South Carolina  debate on Monday, drawing a rebuke from rival John Edwards for  their "squabbling."
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Democrat John Kerry launched his  sharpest assault yet on Monday on President Bush's "arrogance  and outright incompetence" in Iraq, but Bush defended the  U.S.-led invasion and accused his rival for the White House of  contradicting himself again.
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Iraq's embattled prime minister lashed out at American critics Sunday, saying Sen. Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who have called for his ouster should "come to their senses" and stop treating Iraq like "one of their villages."
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Statements by two top US policymakers contradicting adminstration dogma on Iraq provided new fuel to relentless Democratic criticisms of President George W. Bush that have jolted his re-election bid.
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The partyâs leading presidential contenders condemned President Bushâs handling of the war in Iraq today but sharply differed over how to end it.
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Democratic challenger John Kerry roared back to the campaign trail, piling more scorn on President George W. Bush's Iraq policy, as he shot for a comeback in the race for the White House.
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Sen. Joe Lieberman's primary defeat Tuesday night came at the hands of Democratic voters angry over the war in Iraq and demanding that lawmakers stand up to President Bush rather than stand with him.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., July 23 -- Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois edged closer to directly criticizing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for voting to authorize the invasion of Iraq during a Democratic debate on Monday night, one of several sharp moments between the presidential contenders over the war -- and...
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Democratic critics of the Iraq war seized the offensive at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, disclosing plans for a symbolic rejection by the House of President Bush's decision to deploy additional troops and filing legislation in the Senate to require withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.
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Frustrated by the political breakdown in the Senate, House Democratic leaders decided to begin debate next week on their own Iraq resolution.