GOP Skepticism On Iraq Growing
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Key Republican senators, signaling increasing GOP skepticism about President Bush's strategy in Iraq, have called for a reduction in U.S. forces and launched preemptive efforts to counter a much-awaited administration progress report due in September.
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As the House prepared to debate a resolution opposing President Bush's troop escalation in Iraq, the GOP House leader acknowledged that a number of Republicans are likely to support it.
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Presidential hopefuls from President George W. Bush's Republican Party have an uphill battle ahead of the 2008 elections, stung by their support for the unpopular Iraq war and outshone by Democratic star power.
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Members of Congress, including many who have traveled to Iraq to see the war for themselves, are wary about this weekend's election there and pondering such questions as whether Iraqi soldiers can be trained quickly enough to bring U.S. troops home soon.
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Republicans, gloomy over Iraq and other issues, are contributing far less to their party's presidential candidates than Democrats are giving to theirs, raising questions about Republican prospects in 2008.
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President Bush's unpopularity -- due largely to the war in Iraq -- seems likely to affect GOP candidates in the midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released today. Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans surveyed said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies, according to the poll.
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The Republican base has felt left out lately. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint are two senators trying to do something about that
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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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Why Republicans are starting to look chipper about November
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Republicans blocked the U.S. Senate on Saturday from considering a rebuke to President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup, but lawmakers vowed to continue waging a bitter struggle over war policy.
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Senators expressed deep skepticism  on Thursday at President Bush&#39;s nomination of a &quot;war czar&quot; for  Iraq and Afghanistan, saying it muddled the White House chain  of command but likely signaled no strategy change.
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Analysis: There's less difference than it may seem in how Republicans and Democrats want to manage Iraq
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FORT MYERS, Florida  - The Iraq war reclaimed the spotlight in the Republican race for the White House on Saturday as front-runner John McCain accused rival Mitt Romney of backing a timetable to pull U.S. troops out -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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President Bush and Republicans have gained some ground in their bid to hold onto Congress as a sustained GOP effort to portray Democrats and Iraq war critics as appeasing terrorists has swayed voters.
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Fissures over Iraq could make it more difficult for Republicans to coalesce on national security policy and avoid a bitter intraparty fight going into 2008.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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Republicans have blocked a debate in the US Senate over a resolution criticizing President George W. Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, but a new showdown looms.