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...Assert your Commander-in-Chief authority. In prime time, Bush put more of an onus on Iraqi officials to secure their country while announcing a hike in U.S. troop strength and contending that the U.S. cannot afford to fail. House and Senate Democrats put forward plans to rein him in through the pressure of a bipartisan resolution and harsh scrutiny of the budget request for what they called an "escalation." However, White House officials say the President will not be deterred. They know that Democrats will not cut off funds if doing so could hurt troops, and the Democrats admit...
...speech announcing plans to boost troop levels in Iraq, George Bush noted that Iraq was about to pass "legislation to share oil revenues among all Iraqis" in order to give the citizens of that country a share in the economy. Indeed, the 33-page draft of that proposed Oil & Gas Law now circulating, if passed as currently written, would end decades of total government control over Iraq's mammoth oil reserves and distribute oil income among all the country's regions - a dramatic change from the past and a potential windfall for Big Oil. But it must first get through...
...take on corporate jets. As part of his hearings, Biden will bring in Peter Galbraith, a foreign policy expert who backs Biden's preferred strategy in Iraq, dividing the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd regions. For his part, Obama is looking for ways to stop Bush from increasing troops in Iraq, such as inserting a provision in the bill that funds ongoing military operations to forbid money from being spent on additional troops. Dodd, Kerry and another potential White House hopeful, Hillary Clinton, all oppose the troop increase, which McCain has long advocated...
...Except for McCain's position on the troop surge, which polls show more than 60% of Americans disagree with, these stands are likely to only help these candidates when they start their presidential campaigns. While foreign policy experts generally haven't agreed with Biden's partition proposal, it further burnishes his credentials as a serious thinker about foreign policy issues. Obama's position on the war, which he was one of the few of the Democratic contenders to oppose from the beginning, is very popular with his party's base. And much of McCain's popularity stems from his work...
...strategy is to somehow compel the Iraqis to take a variety of self-starting steps - politically, militarily, economically - that they have not to date. But there is no apparent mechanism to compel them to do so. The Study group proposed that Bush threaten to quickly reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq as a way to compel the Iraqis to stand up; but Bush has instead decided to simply pour more troops in to help them stand...