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WASHINGTON _ The United States and Iraq have agreed to a "general time horizon" for further reductions of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the White House said Friday, the first time the Bush administration has agreed to set any kind of timeline for U.S. troop withdrawals. President Bush has bitterly opposed any timetable for troop withdrawals from Iraq in the past, vetoing bills favored by Democrats in Congress that included such measures. The new agreement was announced after talks this week...
By JAMES RISEN By James Risen The New York Times WASHINGTON Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq is widespread and dangerous, causing more deaths and injuries from fires and shocks than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to internal Army documents. During just one six-month period - August 2006 through January 2007 - at least 283 electrical fires destroyed or damaged U.S. military facilities in Iraq, including the military's largest dining...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday told CNN U.S. President George W. Bush is a total failure who is in no position to criticize Congress. The California Democrat said Congress' low approval rating is a consequence of its inability to end the Iraq War and said she also disapproves of Congress' performance on the war. Two days after Bush criticized Congress for lack of action, Pelosi told CNN the president needed something to talk about because he has no ideas. God bless him, bless his...
By JOHN E MULLIGAN WASHINGTON -- Echoing the concerns of U.S. commanders, presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain both called yesterday for action to improve the military situation in Afghanistan -- but also charged each other with misunderstanding how Iraq fits into the overall struggle against terrorism. "George Bush and John McCain don't have a strategy for success in Iraq -- they have a strategy for staying in Iraq," Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois, said in a...
By Larry Eichel, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jul. 16--Barack Obama, soon to depart on a tour that will include America's war zones, sparred with John McCain yesterday over U.S. policy in Iraq while expressing agreement over several aspects of what to do in Afghanistan. Both candidates said they supported giving more nonmilitary assistance to the Afghan government, deploying thousands of additional U.S. troops there, and working to create an economy that did not rely on the drug trade....
By Paul West, The Baltimore Sun Jul. 16--WASHINGTON -- One day after his Democratic rival proposed an escalation of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a surge of as many as 15,000 troops to address the deteriorating security situation there. It was the first time that McCain had urged a specific increase in allied troops in Afghanistan and came as the presidential contenders dueled via long distance yesterday over foreign policy. The...
WASHINGTON _ On the eve of a trip to foreign capitals in the Middle East and Europe, Barack Obama sharpened distinctions with John McCain over Iraq in a lengthy foreign-policy address Tuesday that left no doubt Obama intends to press forward with a policy of reducing U.S. troop commitments to Iraq. While the address did not break significant new ground in Obama's foreign policy stands, Obama provided a detailed explanation of his thinking on Iraq and how his views on the war fit into a...
John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president, said Tuesday the strategy that worked in Iraq can work in Afghanistan. The Arizona senator, speaking at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque, attacked his likely opponent, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for his views on U.S. policy in the two countries. Senator Obama will tell you we can't win in Afghanistan without losing in Iraq, McCain said. In fact, he has it exactly backwards. It is precisely the success of the surge in...
Barack Obama, soon to depart on a tour that will include America's war zones, sparred with John McCain on Tuesday over U.S. policy in Iraq while expressing agreement over several aspects of what to do in Afghanistan. Both candidates said they supported giving more non-military assistance to the Afghan government, deploying thousands of additional U.S. troops there, and working to create an economy that does not rely on the drug trade. The presumptive major-party nominees also called for...
By Danny Hooley, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 13--Beginning tonight, TV viewers have the choice of watching two very different Iraq war dramas on Sundays. Lifetime's hit "Army Wives" and HBO's new "Generation Kill" are likely to have few fans in common, but neither series can be accused of representing any particular stance about the Iraq war. By not taking political sides, both shows have potential to attract hawks or doves, depending on their taste in television. Both series...
