Richardson seeks total Iraq withdrawal
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Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Sunday he wanted a total withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq and that American troops are targets in a civil war.
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Anti-war House members are urging colleagues to set a "clear timeline" for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, challenging Democrats to assume the political risk of ending the war. Leaders of the "Out of Iraq Caucus"  argue that costs of the war have become "unsustainable," damaging efforts to battle terrorism and costing more than $8 billion a month.
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Presidential candidate Bill Richardson is accusing his Democratic rivals in the Senate of creating too many escape clauses for President Bush to leave U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely.
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An influential bipartisan panel is expected to recommend on Wednesday that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year and focus on training Iraqis, offering President George W. Bush the outlines of an exit strategy from the unpopular war.
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The White House urged New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to use talks with visiting North Korean officials to push Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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Britain will withdraw about 1,600 troops from Iraq in coming months if local forces can secure the southern part of the country, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday.Comment
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair  announced on Wednesday the start of the withdrawal of British  troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops  were arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson aired a new ad in Iowa and New Hampshire on Wednesday, demanding that all U.S. troops come out of Iraq and calling on Congress "to stand up to this president."
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has launched an online petition drive to rally support for legislation he co-sponsored to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by next March.
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House Democrats are advancing legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year.
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Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday  called for completing a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq by the end of  2008 and said if elected president he would start an effort to  help Iraqis bridge sectarian differences.
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A U.S. commander in Iraq believes it would not be possible to withdraw troops from his region south and east of Baghdad by year's end. Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said a pullout would be a "giant step backward."
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A leading Republican senator called Sunday for American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq, declaring that a U.S. pullout is needed to head off "impending disaster" in the nearly 4-year-old war.
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Deteriorating security and rampant anger toward US troops in Iraq is emboldening insurgents, according to Representative Martin T. Meehan, who returned from a fact-finding trip yesterday calling for an exit strategy that would significantly reduce the number of troops there over the next 12 to 18 months.
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Britain expects to be able to withdraw  "thousands" of its troops from Iraq by the end of 2007,  Britain's Defense Minister Des Browne said on Monday.
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LONDON: Britain is urging the United States to give a provisional timetable for the withdrawal of US-led forces from Iraq, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday.