Democrats craft Iraq troop withdrawal deadline
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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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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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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 measure does not set the timetable for a troop withdrawal sought by Democrats but requires the Iraqi government to meet a series of benchmarks.
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Determined to challenge President Bush, Senate Democrats are drafting legislation to limit the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq, effectively revoking the broad authority Congress granted in 2002, officials said Thursday.
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The House passed a $120 billion war-spending bill Thursday that had been the primary point of contention between Democrats and President Bush. The bill does not include a deadline for U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq as Democrats originally demanded but does have political benchmarks that the Iraqi government should meet to keep reconstruction aid flowing. It also includes a raft of domestic spending measures, including a federal minimum wage hike.
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Democrats are reviving their push for troop withdrawals as a progress report finds Iraq has not met key targets.
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Democrats are trying to have it both ways on the Iraq funding vote. It will be interesting to see if they can do that.
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The Pentagon asks for an estimated time for the U.S. occupation in Iraq
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year.
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In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats are advancing legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year.
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Whether the next president is a Democrat or a Republican, it looks like the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is permanent until further notice. In the Democratic presidential debate last night, none of the top three hopefuls would commit to withdrawing all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013 (which would be the 10th anniversary of the invasion).
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When Army Gen. David H. Petraeus last week proposed withdrawing more than 20,000 U.S. troops from Iraq, some congressional Democrats nodded their heads and saw it as a positive, if insufficient, step forward. Some wanted to take credit. After all, the drawdown, the benchmarks report, even Petraeu...
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A narrow majority of Americans favor setting a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq and a record number disapprove of the war, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday.
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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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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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After weeks of refusing to back down to President Bush on setting a timetable on Iraq, House Democratic leaders face having to explain to their party's rank and file why they've now relented