House repudiates Bush troop buildup in Iraq
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The U.S. House of Representatives denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup on Friday in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular war strategy.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio  - President George W. Bush on Tuesday brushed aside the criticism of fellow Republicans over Iraq and demanded the U.S. Congress allow his troop buildup more time to work.
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Mounting demands from lawmakers for a new Iraq policy are battering President George W. Bush, but the White House insists the rising political heat will not force a quick about-face on troop withdrawals.
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House Democratic leaders offered a full-throated defense last night of their plans to link Iraq war spending with rigorous standards for resting, training and equipping combat troops, saying that they would hold President Bush accountable for failing to meet those readiness tests.
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Rebuffing Congress, President Bush on Tuesday said he would not give in to ever-mounting calls to start drawing U.S. troops home from Iraq
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The White House is rejecting as premature a plan by two senior Republican senators to restrict the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq.
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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 US House of Representatives was set to condemn President George W. Bush's new strategy on Iraq, in a rare rebuke for the country's commander-in-chief ahead of a bitter debate on whether to continue funding the unpopular war.
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President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy.
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As he prepares to provide Congress and the nation a progress report on Iraq this week, President Bush has sought to reframe the domestic political battle over the war, putting himself in a position to do something his critics have long advocated: Begin drawing down the huge U.S. troop presence.
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Breaking ranks, a small band of House Republicans declared their opposition to a troop buildup in Iraq on Wednesday, and President Bush appeared resigned to passage of a nonbinding measure disapproving of his decision.
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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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President George W. Bush was resigned to a stinging rebuke from the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday over his Iraq war policy and his decision to send more troops, the White House said.
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President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy continued to hemorrhage support in the U.S. Senate as another senior Republican called on Thursday for a new strategy that would start to bring troops home.
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The Senate refused to consider a resolution on Saturday denouncing President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup that the U.S. House of Representatives passed the day before.
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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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Nearly four years after the US invaded Iraq, the House of Representatives opened debate on a symbolic resolution opposing President George W. Bush's move to increase American forces there.