As Iraq Exit Plan Arrives, Democrats' Rift Remains
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Even in her conservative Kansas district, calls and letters to freshman House Democrat Nancy Boyda show a constituency overwhelmingly ready for U.S. troops to come home from Iraq.
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Democrats want a different direction in Iraq. Republicans back President Bush.
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Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran into stiff resistance yesterday from an unexpected quarter -- fellow Democrats.
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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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Congress debates a nonbinding measure expressing "disapproval" of the war. But the Democrats are seeking more ways to curtail the President's latitude in Iraq
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Two months after Democrats took control of Congress, there isn't much to show for the switch in power &#151; despite feverish efforts to weigh in on meaty matters, such as the war in Iraq.
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The Democratic presidential contenders squabbled over Iraq on Tuesday, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a target of criticism for her 2002 vote to authorize the war and her suggestion some U.S. troops may be there for years.
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An independent assessment on the status of Iraq drew fierce pushback from the White House on Thursday and provided fresh ammunition for Democrats who want to bring troops home
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Intent on seizing control of Congress, Democrats want to keep the focus on President Bush's missteps in Iraq. Yet the war is fracturing the party in a handful of House and Senate races.
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Anti-war House members are urging colleagues to set a "clear timeline" for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, challenging Democrats to assume the political risk of ending the war. Leaders of the "Out of Iraq Caucus"  argue that costs of the war have become "unsustainable," damaging efforts to battle terrorism and costing more than $8 billion a month.
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Democrats and Republicans both came out with tough talk on Bush's plan, but conditions exist for a compromise.
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One year after President Bush announced his politically unpopular plan to send thousands more troops to Iraq, Democrats are struggling to counter the administration's argument that the buildup succeeded.
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President Bush summoned support from Democrats whose "dreams and goals are not found in the far left wing" of their own party on Wednesday in a late-campaign appeal for crossover votes. Sen. John Kerry said that when it comes to Iraq, the man in the White House "doesn't get it, and he can't fix it."
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Ahead of votes on U.S. troop presence in Iraq, Republicans argued Thursday that the United States must stay put to help the fledgling Iraqi government while Democrats demanded the Bush administration make clear that American forces won&#039;t be in Iraq forever.
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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 emerging plan by the Iraq Study Group tries to find a middle road between President Bush's adamant refusal to leave Iraq until the job is done and Democratic demands to pull out U.S. troops. But in achieving unanimity among its Republican and Democratic members, the commission has outlined a...
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WASHINGTON -- The Democratic-led Senate is moving closer to rewriting the measure that paved the way for President Bush to invade Iraq nearly four years ago, two top Democratic lawmakers said yesterday.