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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday linked her support for President Bush's war-funding request to strict standards of resting, training and equipping combat forces, a move that could curtail troop deployments and alter the course of US involvement in Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607B.shtml



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

CNN

02/15/07

Setting up a new showdown over Iraq, Senate Democratic leaders announced Thursday they will hold a key test vote Saturday on a resolution opposing President Bush’s plan to send additional troops into combat. Majority Leader Harry Reid said a Saturday session will take up a non-binding measure now before the House of Representatives. The Saturday vote will be a procedural vote on whether the Senate should move on to a final vote on a resolution that expresses opposition to President Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 combat troops to Iraq...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Senate Dems Call GOP Bluff, Iraq Vote Set for Saturday

Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday committed to stay in session through Saturday and perhaps into next week to debate President Bush's proposed troop surge in Iraq, saying they were calling the bluff of GOP moderates who were demanding the Senate sidestep the upcoming recess to consider the issue.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021607K.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP

Watertown Daily Times

02/15/07

A Marine lance corporal cracked jokes and lifted the lifeless hand of an Iraqi civilian whom his squad had just shot, slapping it across the dead man’s face, a sailor testified Thursday. The government called Seaman Recruit Melson J. Bacos as a witness in the sentencing hearing for Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping and conspiracy...

https://tinyurl.com/yr8wu6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Vermont State Legislature made headlines yesterday when lawmakers passed resolutions in both the House and Senate calling for the immediate and orderly withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/14/1646233


From Information Clearing House

A dozen Republicans arrived in the House chamber on Wednesday to set aside their party allegiances and lend their names to a resolution intended to rebuke President Bush for his Iraq policy.

https://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt2_15_7_7.htm


From Information Clearing House

The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted or otherwise overcharged taxpayers billions of dollars, federal investigators said today.

https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4556507.html


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