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Sheehan Quits the Peace Movement

Activist mom slams Dems, uncaring nation, leaves Camp Casey

May 29, 07 6:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy Sheehan is retiring from the anti-war movement. In a long, bitter online letter posted yesterday on Daily Kos, the iconic "peace mom" expressed frustration over the Democrats' failure to end the war, and characterized the US as "a country which cares more about who will be the... More »

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Iraq pullout • war • Cindy Sheehan • anti war movement • Iraq war

G.I.'s Disillusioned About the War

Soldiers from 82nd Airborne say they favor withdrawal

May 28, 07 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than a dozen soldiers from the elite 82d Airborne division tell the New York Times that they now see the war in Iraq as futile. “In 2003, 2004, 100 percent of the soldiers wanted to be here, to fight this war,” says one platoon sergeant who advocates... More »

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Iraq • troop surge • war • US troops • Iraqi soldiers • soldier • Iraq war

Congress OKs New Iraq Bill

Sans timetable,
Bush expected to
sign; Clinton and
Obama say nay

May 25, 07 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress approved $95 billion to pay for the war in Iraq—without a timetable for troop withdrawal. The bill, which Bush says he'll sign, passed both houses last night, ending a long and bitter struggle between Democrats and a veto-ready White House over bringing the troops home. Aspiring presidents Clinton... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Harry Reid • Senate Democrats • Iraq pullout • Iraq appropriations • war • Iraq war

Dems Ditch
Iraq Timeline Demand

New war spending bill won't include much-ballyhooed provision

May 22, 07 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democratic leaders have quietly abandoned a cornerstone of their Iraq war platform: a timeline for withdrawal. Racing to pass a spending bill before the Memorial Day recess, they don't have the votes to pass a timeline, the LA Times reports, and they risk fallout for failing to fund troops in... More »

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Iraq • Democrats • Democratic Congress • Iraq pullout • Iraq appropriations • war • timetable • funding • Iraq war • Iraq war spending

Iraqi Cash
Is Funding
Al Qaeda

Bin Laden search finds money trail leading from various sources

May 21, 07 4:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A stepped-up CIA effort to hunt down Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan hasn't succeeded in locating the  terrorist, the LA Times reports, but it has uncovered evidence that cash is being funneled from Iraq to keep Al Qaeda alive and well. "Iraq is a big moneymaker for them,"... More »

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Iraq • CIA • terrorism • Pakistan • money • war • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Report: Iraq Nears Collapse

May 17, 07 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraqi government is becoming impotent and irrelevant as the country stumbles toward fragmentation and collapse, a new report by a British think tank concludes. The matter-of-fact name, "Accepting Realities in Iraq," belies the grim verdict that large areas are under the control of local factions rather than... More »

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Iraq • civil war • war • al-Qaeda • Iraq war • al-Qaeda in Iraq

For Blair,
Iraq Was No Anomaly

Brooks: War he co-authored was a disaster, but consistent with his values

May 11, 07 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Tony Blair prepares his exit from No. 10, the British left is already eulogizing the PM as a good man consigned by circumstance to a bad war. Not so, says David Brooks: The crux of Blair's political philosophy was a radical, religious communitarianism, which sired both his leftist leanings... More »

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Iraq • Tony Blair • globalization • war • John Macmurray • Britain • Iraq war

Bush Caves
On Iraq Benchmarks

Democrats renew insistence on stick
to accompany carrot

May 10, 07 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an abrupt about-face, President Bush said today he will negotiate with Congress about including benchmarks for the Iraqi government in war-spending legislation. With discontent mounting on both sides of the aisle, he emerged from a Pentagon briefing on Iraq and Afghanistan and said, "It makes sense to have... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • war • benchmarks • funds • Josh Bolten • Iraq war • Iraq war spending • George W. Bush

GOP Moderates Huddle With Bush on Iraq

Blunt conversation reveals deepening fissure between Bush and party over war

May 10, 07 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moderate Republicans met with Bush and his closest aides yesterday in a private meeting one participant called "a remarkable, candid conversation" the Washington Post reports. The representatives made clear their frustration with the war in Iraq, and its unpopularity with their constituents, as both parties attempt to hammer out... More »

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Iraq • Republican • Iraq appropriations • war • Americans • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Bush Will Veto New Iraq Bill

May 9, 07 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will veto a second proposed Iraq appropriations blll, the White House said today, dashing hopes for an agreement on the controversial measure. The new bill, which House Dems unveiled yesterday, requires the President to report to Congress on Iraq's progress in order to receive full funding for the... More »

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Iraq • Democratic Congress • Iraq appropriations • war • veto • funds • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Olmert Braces For Possible Summer Ouster

Report critical of Lebanon war may
doom Israeli PM

Apr 30, 07 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert may be forced out of office to avoid dragging the Kadima party down with him, Haaretz reports. Quoting a senior party official, the newspaper says the Israeli Prime Minister may resign this summer as part of the fallout from a government report on the run-up to and conduct... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Lebanon • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Hezbollah • war • Kadima

Bush Doubts Surge Success

Privately, Bush seeks to lower expectations on the surge—and the prime minister

Apr 28, 07 12:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration is quietly rijiggering its internal expectations for Iraq, senior administration officials have told the New York Times. In spite of a publicly optimistic stance, Bush is already preparing for the possible failure of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's regime and readying to maintain a troop surge well into... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • troop surge • Nouri al-Maliki • war • George W. Bush

Ex-CIA Chief Blasts Cheney

Tenet's new book says "there was never serious debate" about going to war in Iraq

Apr 27, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Tenet offers a scathing attack on Dick Cheney and other architects of the war in Iraq in a new book to be released Monday, the New York Times reports.  The former CIA director alleges that "there was never serious debate" about whether Iraq was an imminent threat... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • CIA • terrorism • George Tenet • war • At the Center of the Storm • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Senate
Passes Troop Pullout Bill

Move sets stage for second veto
of Bush's presidency

Apr 26, 07 2:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate approved the Iraq funding bill 51-46 early this afternoon, conferring its expected stamp of approval on an October troop pullout. But the vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to avoid a promised veto. Democrats are already ruminating on post-veto counter-proposals, including replacing the rigid timetable with... More »

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Iraq • Democratic Congress • Iraq pullout • David Petraeus • war • troop withdrawal

Bush Calls Withdrawal Plan 'An Invitation to Attack America'

Mud-slinging on Iraq gets even uglier

Apr 25, 07 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush yesterday accused the Democrats of “offering an invitation to our enemies to attack America.” With the House and Senate poised to vote this week on a war funding bill with a troop drawdown deadline, the Washington Post reports, the dispute between Congress and the White House... More »

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Iraq • Dick Cheney • politics • Iraq pullout • war • troop withdrawal • timetable • George W. Bush

Dems Stick With Deadline For Withdrawal

Spending bill dares President to veto

Apr 24, 07 6:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congressional Democrats are forcing the White House's hand on Iraq, agreeing on a version of the spending bill that sets a timetable for withdrawing troops by next March—and daring the President to veto it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the move a "long overdue effort to put... More »

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Iraq • Harry Reid • Iraq pullout • war • troop withdrawal • George W. Bush

Attack on GIs Kills Nine, Wounds 20

Outpost assault is deadliest in almost
two years for U.S. troops

Apr 24, 07 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A truck bomb attack on a U.S. military outpost killed nine American infantrymen in the Iraqi province of Diyala yesterday, and wounded 20 more. The attack was one of the deadliest ground assaults on American troops since the war began, raising the question whether the 10-week-old counterinsurgency strategy is... More »

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Iraq • Diyala • roadside bomb • war • US troops • bombing

Al-Sadr Preaches Peace — But Not
Toward U.S.

Urges Iraqis to unite against "occupiers"

Apr 8, 07 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Iraqis Sunday to stop killing each other—and join together to rid their country of Americans. On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, he urged both Iraqi forces and insurgents to direct their fight against "the occupiers,"... More »

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Iraq • terrorism • Shiite • insurgents • Mahdi Army • America • war • Najaf • Muqtada al-Sadr

Resisting Captors Was "Not an Option"

Brit sailors say they were threatened, psychologically tortured

Apr 6, 07 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain's freed sailors say they were blindfolded, psychologically tortured, and isolated from each other during their captivity in Iran. They were lined up while weapons were cocked, and told that if they did not say they were in Iranian waters when they were caught, they would face seven years in... More »

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Iran • terrorism • war • sailor • Britain • Marine • hostage

Britons Ask: Were Captives Too Cozy With Iranians? 

Co-operation called, "Bloody Shambles"

Apr 6, 07 7:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the euphoria over the homecoming of the 15 British captives subsides, some Britons are charging that the sailors and marines went overboard in co-operating with their captors. Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Gray tells London’s Daily Mail: "In my days you would have got name, rank and serial... More »

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Iran • Tony Blair • terrorism • propaganda • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • war • sailor • Britain • Marine • hostage

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