Cheney: Congress should back Iraq plan
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Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday night that a too-soon withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq could send victorious militants spreading out, with some flocking to Afghanistan to fight alongside a regrouping Taliban. He demanded that the Democratic-controlled Congress support President Bush's military buildup "on time and in full."
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GOP Sen. John Warner, who wants U.S. troops to start coming home from Iraq by Christmas, said Sunday he may support Democratic legislation ordering withdrawals if President Bush refuses to set a return timetable soon.
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MIAMI - Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war...
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Vice President Dick Cheney accused Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday of being an "arm-chair general" and defended the Bush administration's handling of weapons sites in Iraq amid news that tonnes explosives disappeared from a facility near Baghdad.
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A war of words erupted between Vice President Dick Cheney and the top Democrat in Congress on Wednesday after Cheney said lawmakers opposing a U.S. troop buildup in Iraq "validate the al Qaeda strategy."
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Vice President Dick Cheney has linked prewar Iraq with al Qaeda in the vice-presidential debate, despite assessments from the CIA and the September 11 Commission that have found no conclusive tie.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, who acknowledged last week that Iraq had produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991, said Tuesday that under Saddam Hussein the country likely could have served as a source of weapons for terrorists.
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Senators John W. Warner and Richard G. Lugar said today that President Bush should present to Congress a contingency plan for Iraq by Oct. 16.
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Vice President Dick Cheney says Washington will not reduce its military and financial support for Afghanistan, despite Afghan fears of such a cut-back.
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President Bush, cheered on by Iraq war veterans and their families on the White House's South Lawn, urged lawmakers Tuesday to back his plan to withdraw some troops from Iraq but keep at least 130,000 through next summer or longer.
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MIAMI - Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war...
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Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday he would support a temporary troop increase in Iraq only if it were part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by early 2008.
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Leaders of a bipartisan panel on Iraq defended their call for a new war strategy Sunday, saying it embraces President Bush's goal of an Iraq government that can defend and sustain itself.
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Vice President Dick Cheney said he remained convinced that invading Iraq was ÂabsolutelyÂ the right thing to do.
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Lawmakers and President Bush should make a New Year's resolution to give adequate equipment to troops in Iraq, the vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus said Saturday.
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An outspoken supporter of the Iraq war on Tuesday called for a new tax to pay for its astronomical cost as Congress opened a debate on President George W. Bush's $2.9 trillion budget plan for next year.
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President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney tried to build on momentum from the speech, while Democrats prepared to renew their attacks on Mr. Bushâs Iraq policy.