Democrats seek 2008 Iraq troop withdrawal
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on Thursday proposed withdrawing all American combat troops from Iraq by next year, saying President George W. Bush's war strategy had failed and that the United States must instead focus on a brewing storm in Afghanistan.
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Anti-war House members Wednesday urged colleagues to set a "clear timeline" for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, challenging Democrats to assume the political risk of ending the war.
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. House  of Representatives have tentatively settled on a timetable and  conditions for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, which they  hope to attach to a $100 billion Iraq war spending bill, senior  lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battled over Iraq on Tuesday, with Clinton urging an early pullout of U.S. troops and Obama questioning his opponents' shifting stances on the war.
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Senate Democrats are revising their major war legislation to attract votes to pass and potentially launch a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by yearÃ¢ÂÂs end.
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Even as Pentagon planners search for ways to shift the Iraq mission from combat to support with fewer U.S. troops, Democrats plan to raise their pressure on President Bush to end U.S. involvement in the unpopular war.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson on Wednesday called for the U.S. to end the war in Iraq, arguing that the troops exacerbate the sectarian violence and the billions spent could be used for health care and other needs.
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In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs, officials said Monday
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Democrats want a different direction in Iraq. Republicans back President Bush.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted Sunday night it's time to start pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq as she and her Democratic presidential rivals debated the war on the eve of a much-awaited assessment by U.S. commanding Gen. David Petraeus.
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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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The U.S. Senate continued a marathon debate on the Iraq war early on Wednesday aiming for a showdown vote later in the day on a Democratic plan to withdraw combat troops by April 2008.
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A senior Democrat said Tuesday it was obvious the Iraqi government has made no progress and the only way to propel it was to begin pulling out U.S. troops.
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Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, one of the most prominent Democrats in the 2008 presidential field, proposed for the first time setting a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq, as part of a broader plan aimed at bolstering the freshman senator's foreign policy credentials.
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After weeks of watching their counterparts in the House make headway on anti-war legislation, Senate Democrats say it is their turn to put their members on record on whether President Bush should pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraq.
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The US Senate is holding an all-night session as Democrats seek to force the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
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Bloomberg - Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The three leading Democratic presidential candidates said the U.S. should plan to withdraw troops from Iraq no matter what the Army&#39;s top commander says in a report to Congress today because a military win is impossible.