Pentagon exaggerated risk posed by Iraq: US senator
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A senior Democratic senator released a report Thursday alleging that the US Pentagon exaggerated the military risks posed by Iraq before the US-led war there to support a decision already taken by the White House to invade the country.
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A Republican senator who campaigned for the US president at last month&#39;s Republican convention says the Bush Administration has made mistakes in their Iraq policy.
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An arrogant rush to war in Iraq has made the country more vulnerable to nuclear attack while the Bush administration has misled the public with "happy talk" about prospects for peace, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Monday.
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Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, questioned the purpose of sending an additional 20,000 U.S. troops into Baghdad, the surge option being mentioned as one strategy change in Iraq being considered by President Bush.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday enlisted the help of other Democratic senators in her feud with the Pentagon over end-of-war planning in Iraq.
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A US senator who in December called for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to resign raised doubts about an audit of the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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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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The Republican candidate for the US Senate in Colorado suggested yesterday that Congress would not have voted to authorize a war in Iraq if the members had known &quot;what we know today.
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A top U.S. Senate Democrat said on Sunday his party aims to limit the role of the nearly 140,000 American troops in Iraq and withdraw most of them from the war-torn country within a year.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza said Sunday it would be a mistake for Congress to micromanage the Iraq war and she encouraged lawmakers to support President Bush's troop increase.
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The leader of opposition Democrats in the US Senate stepped up his assault on President George W. Bush, warning Iraq had slumped into civil war and assailing the US refusal to engage Iran.
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After months of heated rhetoric slamming President Bush's Iraq policy, the Senate's top Democrat moved into new terrain by declaring the Iraq war a worse blunder than Vietnam.
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A suicide bomber was the likely cause of the deadliest single attack on American troops in Iraq - an explosion at a US base that killed 22 people, the Pentagon&#39;s top general said Wednesday.
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A top US commander in Iraq warned Iran and other countries against underestimating the US military because its forces are engaged in two major wars, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee is cautioning Republicans against blocking a vote Monday on a resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq
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CAPITOL HILL A Democratic senator isn&#39;t satisfied with the answer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave to a US soldier in Kuwait today.
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Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, a Senate report says, contradicting assertions President Bush has used to build support for the war in Iraq.