Warner wants Dems in war debate
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A leading Senate Republican on defense issues, Sen. John Warner, will call on President Bush to solicit privately the opinions of Democrats before forging a new strategy on Iraq.
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Senators John W. Warner and Richard G. Lugar proposed requiring the president to present a strategy by October that begins limiting the involvement of U.S. forces.
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Sen. John Warner's call for troop withdrawals from Iraq is likely to ratchet up pressure on President Bush substantially and lend momentum to Democratic efforts to end U.S. combat.
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Senate Democrats hope to lure more Republican votes for a policy shift in Iraq by giving emphasis to a change of mission for U.S. troops there.
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Top Senate Democrats joined with Republican Sen. John Warner on Wednesday to support a nonbinding resolution opposing President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy, increasing prospects that Bush will face an embarrassing repudiation.
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Senate Democrats pledged renewed efforts Sunday to curtail the Iraq war, suggesting they will seek to limit a 2002 measure authorizing President Bush's use of force against Saddam Hussein.
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Vice President Cheney and his counterpart on the Democratic ticket, Sen. John Edwards, continued to trade sharp words on security and Iraq on Wednesday as they charged through the nation's hotly contested battleground states.
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Mark Warner, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, voiced growing concern Tuesday with his party's electoral strategy, arguing that Democrats' willingness to write off sections of the country could make it nearly impossible to win the White House.
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Democrat Mark Warner figures his work with Republicans is a sure path to the possibility of securing his party's presidential nod.
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The Iraq war debate in Congress is expected to heat up this week as the Senate takes up a major defense spending bill and the Pentagon rushes to finish a report on the war's progress.
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GOP Sen. John Warner, who wants U.S. troops to start coming home from Iraq by Christmas, said Sunday he may support Democratic legislation ordering withdrawals if President Bush refuses to set a return timetable soon.
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Democratic presidential contenders on Capitol Hill will cast critical votes on the Iraq war this week, when lawmakers decide on a $120 billion bill to keep military operations afloat through September.
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A war of words erupted between Vice  President Dick Cheney and the top Democrat in Congress on  Wednesday after Cheney said lawmakers opposing a U.S. troop  buildup in Iraq "validate the al Qaeda strategy."
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For months, Sen. John Warner has been looked upon as the man who could &#151; at any moment &#151; tip the Iraq debate on Capitol Hill because of his influence on a Republican caucus growing increasingly uneasy about the war.
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The Democratic presidential contenders squabbled over Iraq on Tuesday, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a target of criticism for her 2002 vote to authorize the war and her suggestion some U.S. troops may be there for years.
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Sen. John W. Warner, for decades one of the most authoritative voices in Congress on military issues and a key player in the debate over Iraq, will announce Friday whether he will seek a sixth term next year.
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Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner intends to run for the Senate next year, Democratic officials said Thursday, assuring his party a competitive race for a seat long in Republican hands.