Democrats reject general's Iraq plan
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A day before President Bush's war address, Senate Democrats rejected a four-star general's recommendation to keep some 130,000 troops in Iraq through next summer and sought legislation that would limit the mission of U.S. forces.
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Democratic Congressional leaders on Friday offered the first concessions in a fight with President Bush over a spending bill for Iraq, but the White House turned them down
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Democrats' plans to limit President Bush's war authority, forcing a change of course in Iraq are faltering amid party divisions over how quickly and aggressively they should act
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iraq&#39;s top general yesterday rejected US President George W. Bush&#39;s criticism that some Iraqi troops were unwilling to fight insurgents and have deserted the battlefield, saying the president had been misinformed.
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President George W. Bush's Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008 to cap a rare round-the-clock U.S. Senate debate.
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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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Democrats in the Senate planned to begin debating on Wednesday a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, but Republicans made clear they opposed the measure and would try to prevent its passage.
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House Democratic leaders are planning a short and simple measure opposing President Bush's decision to send more forces into combat
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on Thursday proposed withdrawing all American combat troops from Iraq by mid-2008, 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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US Senate Democrats, thwarted in their bid to force a debate on President George W. Bush's planned US troop buildup in Iraq, are expected to step up their pressure on the administration in order to force it to change its strategy in the war.
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The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to consider a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq after Republican opponents blocked two previous attempts at debating the unpopular war.
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The Democratic-led Congress authorized more Iraq war spending on Friday, sending President George W. Bush a defense bill requiring no change in strategy after failing again to impose a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals.
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Senate Democrats halted their quest to change President Bush's war strategy yesterday after Republicans blocked a proposal to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq.
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U.S. plans for handling Iraq after the 2003 invasion were "fatally flawed," a retired British general said, adding that the U.S. administration had refused to listen to British concerns about postwar planning.
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Iraq's president said on Sunday he rejected a long-anticipated list of recommendations by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to change U.S. policy in the region.
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Top U.S. officials will likely warn Congress on Monday against major changes in policy in Iraq, but leading Democrats said that strategy has failed and it's time to think about getting troops out.