Lawmaker Opposes More Troops for Baghdad
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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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The U.S. House of Representatives  will take up a resolution next week disapproving of President  George W. Bush's decision to add 21,500 American troops in  Iraq, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
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Democratic critics of the Iraq war seized the offensive at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, disclosing plans for a symbolic rejection by the House of President Bush's decision to deploy additional troops and filing legislation in the Senate to require withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.
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Senate Republicans today blocked a floor vote on a House-passed resolution that expresses disapproval of President Bush's plan to send thousands of additional U.S. troops to Iraq, as a procedural motion to cut off debate on the measure fell short of the 60 votes needed.
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U.S. House of Representatives Democrats unveiled a resolution on Monday opposing a troop buildup in Iraq, setting up a confrontation this week over President George W. Bush's war strategy.
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A bill in the House of Representatives rebuking President George W. Bush's Iraq policy will voice support for US troops while expressing disapproval with Bush's plan to &quot;escalate&quot; America's military presence there, leading Democrats said.
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House Democratic leaders are backing away from a plan to scale back U.S. involvement in the Iraq war by using Congress' most powerful tool &#151; withholding money in the budget.
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Democrats will limit this week's Iraq debate in the U.S. House of Representatives to a resolution that disapproves of President George W. Bush's plan to increase troop levels, the House Democratic leader said on Sunday.
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Iraqi lawmakers across a wide political spectrum chastised what they claim is overreaching by the Kurdish north, issuing a declaration Sunday opposing the self-ruled region's foreign oil deals and its ambitions in the disputed city of Kirkuk.
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A majority of Americans do not approve of U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to send another 21,500 troops to Iraq, according to new polls released as the U.S. House of Representatives takes up a nonbinding resolution condemning the troop increase.
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"There are tribal sheiks out there who say 'Hey, just allow me to be the local security force. I don't care what you call me. ... You can call me whatever you want. Just give me the right training and equipment and I'll secure my area."  Parliament voted Monday in a closed session to remove the speaker after a series of scandals involving the controversial lawmaker, legislators said. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani will be replaced by another Sunni Arab, they said.The U.S. military, meanwhile, said three American soldiers were killed and six were wounded, along with an interpreter, Sunday when a suicide car bomber brought down a section bridge south of Baghdad on Iraq's main north-south artery.'The efforts to clear the road continue,' said Lt. Col. Randy Martin, a U.S. military spokesman. Read more
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Tempers flared on Iraq among Democrats on Tuesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fielded criticism from an anti-war congresswoman over liberals' concern that the party is not doing enough to end the war.
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A bipartisan resolution repudiating President George W. Bush's decision to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing a serious setback to critics of the war.
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U.S. House of Representatives  Democrats unveiled a resolution on Monday opposing a troop  buildup in Iraq, setting up a confrontation this week over  President George W. Bush's war strategy.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular war strategy.
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The White House said it does not want Congress to micromanage U.S. commanders in Iraq by limiting the 2002 resolution that authorized President Bush to invade that country, as Democratic senators have proposed.
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A leading contender to be Iraq's next prime minister says the government should not allow laws that conflict with Islam.