Democrats: Iraqi troop buildup a failure
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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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The Iraq Study Group's strong critique has put the White House on the defensive. So why aren't the Democrats cheering?
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Swept into power by voters clamoring for an end to the war in Iraq, Democrats have seen their efforts falter under a reality more complicated than they found on the campaign trail.
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WASHINGTON - Members of the military and their families say the Bush administration underestimated the number of troops needed in Iraq and put too much pressure on inadequately trained National Guard and reserve forces, according to a poll released Saturday.    The National Annenberg Election Survey found that 62 percent in the military sample said the administration didn't send an adequate number of troops to Iraq...
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The new Democratic-led Congress is drawing the ire of voters upset with its failure to quickly deliver on a promise to end the Iraq war.
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President Jalal Talabani said today that the American program to train IraqÂs military and police, a cornerstone of the American enterprise in Iraq, was a failure.
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Frustrated Senate Democrats failed on Friday to force a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, capping a series of defeats that reinforced the chamber's impasse over the war.
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When Senate Democrats move next month to narrow President Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq, at least one of their own won't be there to help. The same goes for trying to pass a spending bill for the war or a budget for the government.
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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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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - The Democratic presidential front-runners came under attack from a rival on Sunday for showing insufficient leadership on ending the war in Iraq in a debate in which the main target was President George W. Bush.
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The three leading Democratic presidential candidates last night said in a televised debate that they could not predict the future challenges in Iraq â and that they foresaw a continuing need for at least some troops there.
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Democrats on Saturday said US soldiers in Iraq lacked adequate body armor and plated vehicles because of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld&#39;s flawed leadership.
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The Senate yesterday rejected a nine-month timetable for bringing most troops home from Iraq, yet another legislative defeat for Democrats in what is shaping up as a losing battle to force President Bush to end the war.
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After a marathon all-night debate, the Senate today turned back a Democratic attempt to force a vote on a proposal mandating troop withdrawals from Iraq. The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed for the measure to proceed.
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House Democrats rolled out their resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq on Monday, setting up a likely rebuke in a political landscape turned upside-down since Congress' overwhelming 2002 endorsement of force against Saddam Hussein.
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The U.S. House of Representatives denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup on Friday in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular war strategy.
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House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said Thursday.