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Facing a GOP rebellion, president signals he may be open to a course shift in Iraq.

http://www.denverpost.com/colleges/ci_6344389



Smith pushes for Iraq pullback

Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith took the Republican lead Tuesday in advocating a new plan in the Senate to limit the U.S. military's role in Iraq.

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Anne Flaherty, reporting for the Associated Press writes: "Sen. Olympia Snowe on Wednesday became the second Republican to embrace a bill ordering troops out of Iraq as President Bush's national security adviser tried to stop defections from the White House war policy. Snowe (R-Maine) joined Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) in co-sponsoring a bill that would require troops to start leaving in 120 days. The bill also would end combat by April 30, 2008.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071107A.shtml

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Senators push anew to force troop pullout

Boston Globe

07/11/07

Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine declared yesterday that ‘the tide has turned’ against President Bush’s Iraq war strategy among her fellow Republicans, as Bush fought to control growing disenchantment on Capitol Hill. While the president told a friendly audience in Cleveland that Congress must give his security plan a chance to work, senators in both parties yesterday began a new push to force a troop withdrawal or to sharply limit the US mission in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney and other high-ranking administration officials talked to lawmakers to try to stave off new defections...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Woonsocket Call

07/10/07

President Bush threatened to veto legislation setting a date for a troop withdrawal from Iraq on Tuesday despite growing bipartisan calls in Congress for an end to U.S. participation in the war and sharp criticism of the Iraqi government. As the Senate opened a new debate on the conflict, one of the president’s staunchest supporters bluntly said the administration had pursued the wrong policy for years after toppling Saddam Hussein...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=withdrawal+Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0710-09.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/10/2422/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/10/2411/



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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6439/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Bob Herbert of The New York Times writes: "With no end yet in sight for the long dark night of the Iraq war, The Nation magazine is coming out this week with an article that goes into great and disturbing detail about the brutal treatment of Iraqi civilians by some US soldiers and marines. Based on interviews conducted on the record with dozens of American combat veterans of the war, the authors address what they describe as frequent acts of violence in which US forces have abused or killed Iraqi civilians - men, women and children - with impunity."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071007D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert

Mike Soraghan and Jackie Kucinich writing for The Hill report, "House Democrats are planning a series of votes this month on Iraq that they hope will ratchet up pressure on the White House and Congressional Republicans to change course on the unpopular war or suffer political consequences."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071007B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi

Martha Raddatz of ABC News has been told the White House is "in panic mode" over the recent defections of Republican senators on the President's stay-the-course policy in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071007A.shtml



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