Democrats outline an Iraq endgame
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The House leaders' plan gives Bush the war funding he seeks, but also requires a troop exit by August 2008 - at the latest.
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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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Democrats plan to press for a minimum wage increase and "tough, smart" national security in their final push to wrest power from the Republicans in the November elections.
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Senior House Democrats, seeking to placate members of their party from Republican-leaning districts, are pushing a plan that would place restrictions on President Bush's ability to wage the war in Iraq but would allow him to waive them if he publicly justifies  his position.
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Democratic presidential contenders on Capitol Hill will cast critical votes on the Iraq war this week, when lawmakers decide on a $120 billion bill to keep military operations afloat through September.
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Sen. Joe Biden said he is the only Democratic presidential candidate who has a plan for Iraq, dismissing the ideas of other contenders as tactics that would leave the Middle East in peril. "They have tactics, not a plan," Biden told The Associated Press on Friday.
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After weeks of refusing to back down to President Bush on setting a timetable on Iraq, House Democratic leaders face having to explain to their party's rank and file why they've now relented
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Leading U.S. Democrats vowed on Sunday to seek a revision in 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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A top Democrat said Thursday he is preparing legislation that would give President Bush the war funding he wants this year, but on the condition that troops leave Iraq by the end of the year.
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Democratic presidential contenders on Capitol Hill will cast critical votes on the Iraq war this week
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President George W. Bush and Republicans have taken a battering over Iraq, but it's not because voters believe Democrats have a clear strategy for ending the conflict and bringing American soldiers home.
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The United States and Iraq are crafting a two-pronged plan to prepare for Iraq&#39;s first democratic election in January, combining a fall military offensive to evict insurgents
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House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said
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Democrats said President Bush must be ready to cooperate with Congress in finding a way forward, and eventually out of, Iraq.
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Despite feeling a gust of political wind at their backs for the coming election, Democrats still need to make some critically fine distinctions to voters if the war in Iraq is to blow down the house of George W. Bush and sweep away his partyÃ¢ÂÂs control of Congress.
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Democrats want a different direction in Iraq. Republicans back President Bush.
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Senate Democrats are hoping to force at least modest troop withdrawals in the coming months.