Conn. Senate race centers on Iraq war
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The Iraq War is center stage again in Connecticut's increasingly nasty Senate race. Ned Lamont, whose upset of Sen. Joe Lieberman in last month's Democratic primary was fueled in large part by his opposition to the war, took fresh aim at Lieberman's staunch support of the conflict in a new television ad Thursday.
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CLEVELAND - Vice President Dick Cheney accused the Democratic presidential ticket Tuesday night of turning against the Iraq war for political gain. "We need a fresh start" countered Sen...
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The Iraq war, once the key issue in the presidential election, is taking a back seat to the economy as voters fret over a possible recession and consider the improving security situation in Baghdad.
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Presidential hopefuls show their antiwar stripes, but differ on how to extricate the US from Iraq.
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Democrats in the US are planning a Senate challenge to President George W Bush's handling of the Iraq war.
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Less than five months before congressional elections, Republicans and Democrats maneuvered for political advantage Wednesday as the Senate debated the Iraq war and the future of 127,000 U.S. troops in the war zone.
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Two potential 2008 presidential candidates appealed Tuesday for the Senate to support their call to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq &quot;by a hard and fast deadline,&quot; a position putting them at odds with most of their fellow Democrats.
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The U.S. Senate continued debating the Iraq war in a rare session that was expected to run into Wednesday, when a showdown vote was set on a Democratic plan to withdraw combat troops by April 2008.
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Republican beer heir Peter Coors and Democratic Attorney General Ken Salazar clashed over the war in Iraq on Sunday in a nationally televised debate in their battle for the US Senate, a race that could decide which party controls the Senate.
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With cots, pillows and pleas for change, the Democratic-led U.S. Senate began a rare around-the-clock session on Tuesday to push President George W. Bush and fellow Republicans to end the Iraq war.
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A large portrait of Mike Mansfield, dogged Democratic foe of the Vietnam war, hangs near the Senate chamber where a new generation of Democrats is trying to stop another unpopular conflict -- in Iraq.
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President Bush isn't exactly eager to lend his support to the Republican nominee in Connecticut's tumultuous Senate race.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are offering U.S. voters and the world two starkly different views on Iraq. The incumbent tells skeptical foreign leaders the war is part of a global fight on terror and "there is no safety in looking away." The challenger wants allies to help find a way out.
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The Senate prepared to vote Saturday  on whether to follow the House of Representatives and consider  a resolution opposing President George W. Bush's plan to send  another 21,500 troops to Iraq.
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The only senator from President   George W. Bush's Republican party to vote against the Iraq War   battled for political survival on Tuesday as voters in nine   states chose candidates for an election that could shift   control of the U.S. Congress to the Democrats.
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House debate over the Iraq war did more than pit Democrat against Republican. It pitted ghosts of the past against each other.
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The Senate gridlocked on the Iraq war in a sharply worded showdown Saturday as Republicans foiled a Democratic bid to repudiate President Bush's deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops.