Senator: Commander Told of Military Drain
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A former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman asserted Sunday that the general who ran the war in Afghanistan said more than a year before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that his resources were being shifted in preparation for taking on Saddam Hussein.
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Leading Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged President Bush to consider changing the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, one week after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned against fascism and appeasement as he defended U.S. policies in Iraq.
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The vice president said today that lawmakers who pursue a withdrawal of forces are âunderminingâ the troops.
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WASHINGTON -- Conditions in Iraq will not improve sufficiently by September to justify a drawdown of US military forces, the top American commander in Iraq said yesterday.
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Senator Norm Coleman says he has concerns about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld&#39;s leadership because of the lack of armored vehicles in Iraq.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus came under fire on Tuesday from Republicans skeptical about war strategy as well as Democrats who have demanded a swifter withdrawal of American troops
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The U.S. military commander in one of the more troubled areas of Iraq said Friday that that the call to begin troop withdrawals before the end of the year would be "a giant step backward."
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A Pentagon official accused by a leading Senate Democrat of deceiving Congress about intelligence on Iraq&#39;s pre-war links to the al-Qaida terrorist network says the dispute is
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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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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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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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In his first public comments unrelated to his arrest in an airport sex sting, Sen. Larry Craig said the United States is making progress in Iraq because of a troop escalation overseen by Gen. David Petraeus.
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After serving two weeks of reserve duty in Iraq, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) yesterday called for continuation of the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq and warned that any decision to mandate a withdrawal this year would undercut critical gains made in recent months.
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By Anonymous  Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans, was briefed recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the closure of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.
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An influential Republican senator calls for some 5,000 US troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by the year's end.
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Gen. George Casey, nominated for the post of Army chief of staff, faced severe questions Thursday from senators about the strategies he implemented when he was the commander of U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq.
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Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., contends that just months into combat in Afghanistan, Gen.