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...that the U. S. "should ... have stayed out" of Iraq, while only 42% think the invasion was "the right thing." Two-thirds of Americans think our "efforts to bring stability and order to Iraq" are going somewhat or very badly, and the same fraction think we should withdraw in part or completely...
...Rudy Giuliani campaign has cited scheduling conflicts in saying it will skip the Republican version of this week's Democratic debate, while Mitt Romney has mocked the seriousness of the questions and also seems likely to withdraw. John McCain, one of two candidates who had agreed to participate (Ron Paul is the other), has also expressed doubts about the Democratic debate's level of decorum and aides say he may reconsider his commitment. Undeclared candidate Fred Thompson may still not officially be in the race by the event's Sept. 17 airdate...
...best reality show," and the New York Times said that the viewer-submitted questions were able to elicit "points of difference on a broad range of issues, from whether the United States should build more nuclear power plants to whether it would be good policy - or even feasible - to withdraw American troops from Iraq within six months...
...HELP Committee mark-up was originally scheduled to be held last Wednesday, but was postponed after the Senate held an all-night debate over a timeline to withdraw troops from Iraq. Bleary-eyed, the Senate Finance Committee still managed to pass their legislation 17-4 with most Republicans voting in defiance of President George W. Bush's veto threat against the measure. It "is good policy," Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the panel's top Republican, said in endorsing the package...
...cited the same report released earlier this week as a reason to stay in Iraq, but Obama, who said he read the classified version of the report yesterday (only seven pages were released to the public), took the opposite view. In response to a question on whether he'd withdraw troops from Afghanistan as well as Iraq, he argued that the war in Iraq "distracted" from the real mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan, allowing al-Qaeda to regroup there...