Pentagon exaggerated risk posed by Iraq: US senator
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A senior Democratic senator released a report alleging that the US Pentagon exaggerated the military risks posed by Iraq before the US-led war there to support a decision already taken by the White House to invade the country.
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Sen. Mark Dayton on Wednesday defended his much-maligned decision to close his Washington office until Election Day, saying several pieces of intelligence led him to believe the Capitol was at risk of an attack.
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On his third trip to Iraq, in September 2005, Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) knew the American mission was imperiled.
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The incoming deputy leader of Senate Democrats demanded answers Saturday from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as to why U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan lack protective equipment for themselves and their vehicles.
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A suicide bomber was the likely cause of the deadliest single attack on American troops in Iraq - an explosion at a US base that killed 22 people, the Pentagon&#39;s top general said Wednesday.
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The Republican candidate for the US Senate in Colorado suggested yesterday that Congress would not have voted to authorize a war in Iraq if the members had known &quot;what we know today.
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A Democratic U.S. Senator on  Thursday accused a senior Pentagon official of distorting  intelligence information to back claims of links between Iraq  and al Qaeda in the run-up to last year's U.S.-led invasion.
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A leading Republican senator called Sunday for American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq, declaring that a U.S. pullout is needed to head off "impending disaster" in the nearly 4-year-old war.
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The U.S. Senate moved a step closer to repudiating U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy on Thursday when a key Democrat backed a Republican-crafted proposal opposing a troop increase.
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The Pentagon has issued a stinging rebuke to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, arguing that she is boosting enemy propaganda by asking how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq
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Breaking ranks with the White House and his Republican leaders in Congress, Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska has said in a letter to constituents the US military action in Iraq was a mistake.
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A top US senator accuses a former key Pentagon official of twisting intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
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The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.
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WASHINGTON - House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday called the war in Iraq a âgrotesque mistakeâ that has not made the United States safer.
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US Senator Chris Dodd demanded answers on military preparedness from Donald Rumsfeld, describing the defense secretary as ``cavalier&#39;&#39; in his response to a soldier who said troops in
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After months of heated rhetoric slamming President Bush's Iraq policy, the Senate's top Democrat moved into new terrain by declaring the Iraq war a worse blunder than Vietnam.
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a lightning rod for critics of the Iraq war, urged the United States on Friday not to retreat in the face of "the agonies and ugliness of combat."