Democrats worry Bush setting up war with Iran
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Some Democratic presidential  candidates worried on Thursday the White House had begun a  march to war by declaring Iran's Revolutionary Guard a  terrorism supporter while a top Republican said "bombardment"  of Iran should be an option.
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Democrats need to do something dramatic, even histrionic, to dispel the perception they are powerless to stop the Iraq War.
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WASHINGTON - While scrutiny last week focused on the debate over troop strength, President Bush also seized the chance to turn up the pressure on Iran, using his speech on Thursday to stress the need to contain Iran as a major reason for the continued US presence in Iraq.
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Democrats in the US are planning a Senate challenge to President George W Bush's handling of the Iraq war.
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Chicago Tribune - As congressional Democrats prepare to watch President Bush take the oath of office Thursday, many within the party are growing frustrated at the lack of a clear Democratic strategy for dealing with a president who they believe is not particularly popular despite his re-election.
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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 suggested on Wednesday that Democrat John Kerry's aggressive new attacks on the White House's Iraq policy show that the Massachusetts senator may not be up to the task of leading the broader war on terrorism.
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Anxiously watching President Bush's convention, Democratic leaders are urging John Kerry to step us his attack on the Republican incumbent before eroding approval ratings become a serious political problem.
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After weeks of watching their counterparts in the House make headway on anti-war legislation, Senate Democrats say it is their turn to put their members on record on whether President Bush should pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraq.
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The politics of terrorism has Democrats tied in knots. Each time President Bush raises fears of a possible attack, the political debate shifts from his most troublesome issue (Iraq) to one of his strongest (the war on terrorism) while Democrats fight their impulse to question the president's motives.
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President Bush is confronting what could become the biggest challenge of his second term: how to contain Iran's nuclear program.
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Democrats face a host of risks as they move toward more substantive steps to tie President Bush's hands with funding restrictions on the Iraq war.
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Senate Democrats, including several prospective presidential candidates, charged Thursday that the Bush administration&#039;s optimistic assessments on Iraq are not borne out by events on the ground.
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Leading U.S. Democrats vowed on Sunday a push to revise President George W. Bush's 2002 authorization to wage war in Iraq, as a way to raise pressure for a change in strategy.
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As the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks nears, President Bush is finding it increasingly hard to make good on foreign-policy promises or threats. The biggest source of his frustration is the "axis of evil" &#151; Iran, North Korea and Iraq &#151; that he warned four years ago imperiled world peace.
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WASHINGTON - Still reeling from the fallout of authorizing the Iraq war five years ago, congressional Democrats are determined to put themselves early on record as opposing military action in Iran.
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Democrats' plans to limit President Bush's war authority, forcing a change of course in Iraq are faltering amid party divisions over how quickly and aggressively they should act