Giuliani: Joining Iraq group a mistake
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Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday it was a mistake for him to join the Iraq Study Group, on which he lasted just two months and failed to show for any official meetings. The former New York mayor has tried to tamp down criticism in recent days after Newsday reported that Giuliani was a no-show for two of the group's meetings and instead attended paid public appearances.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Breaking ranks with his party and his own earlier stance, a senior retiring Republican lawmaker said Wednesday the military strike against Iraq was &quot;a mistake,&quot; and he blasted a &quot;massive failure&quot; of intelligence before the war.
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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani criticized Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and defended Gen. David Petraeus in a full-page ad in Friday's The New York Times .
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The partyâs leading presidential contenders condemned President Bushâs handling of the war in Iraq today but sharply differed over how to end it.
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Sen. John Kerry on Saturday blamed Republicans for squelching Senate debate on the Iraq war and warned that President Bush's plan for more troops in Iraq is a mistake.
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Republican 2008 White House front-runner Rudolph Giuliani Friday fired a first, biting attack at top Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, accusing her &quot;spewing venom&quot; at America&#39;s commander in Iraq.
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Democrat John Kerry turned up his criticism of President Bush's leadership in Iraq on Monday, accusing him of "colossal failures of judgment" that have turned the country into a haven for terrorists and made America more vulnerable.
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ELEANOR HALL: Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, has blamed what he calls &quot;major neglect by multinational forces&quot; for the deaths of the 49 Iraqi army recruits over the weekend.
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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has confronted a spate of bad news in recent days, from the drug indictment of his South Carolina chairman to criticism for skipping meetings of the Iraq Study Group.
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Rudolph W. Giuliani is consulting with a particularly hawkish group of advisers and neoconservative thinkers.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister yesterday blamed the US-led coalition for &quot;great negligence&quot; in the ambush that killed about 50 American-trained soldiers, and warned of an escalation of terrorist attacks.
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Leading members of President Bush's  Republican Party on Sunday criticized mistakes and  "incompetence" in his Iraq policy and called for an urgent  ground offensive to retake insurgent sanctuaries.
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WASHINGTON -- Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani personally apologized to President George W. Bush for the abortive nomination of Giuliani&#39;s close associate, Bernard Kerik, as homeland security secretary.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister has blamed negligence on the part of some in the US-led multinational force for Saturday&#39;s massacre of 49 new Iraqi National Guardsmen and their civilian drivers by loyalists of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, in an indirect swipe at President Bush, said Thursday the overwhelming attitude that the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction reflects a lack of leadership.
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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Monday that two of the Democratic candidates will change their minds again about the Iraq war and agree that it was the right decision.
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worked on projects to help Iraqi children, would be killed unless Italy withdrew its troops from Iraq. in Kuwait City on the first stop of a Gulf tour.