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在星期一美國5月28日告訴伊朗在一面對面見面在巴格達，它的支持為戰鬥在伊拉克的民兵需要停止，說賴安Crocker，美國。 駐伊拉克的大使。

邁克爾青苔和Souad Mekhennet
當Muhammad AlDarsi， 24，在大馬士革遇見了他的徵兵人員，敘利亞，他被告訴他未在伊拉克必要。 反而，他被起草了入滲出在伊拉克外面的戰爭。 交戰的隊從伊拉克到喬丹旅行了，他們準備對美國人和猶太人的攻擊。 [...]

民主人士昨天放棄了他們的對隊伍撤退最後期限的需求在伊拉克戰爭消費包裹，摒棄他們的帶來美國的頂面目標。 隊伍家和在混亂了國會幾個月的辯論中遞布什總統一次勝利

議院通過它的第二個計劃昨晚推擠資助伊拉克戰爭和改造戰爭政策，為衝突在7月最將提供部份資助，但阻止金錢，直到布什總統報告在戰爭的進展的滿意的立法。 (由喬納森Weisman，華盛頓[...]

Congressional leaders from both political parties are giving President Bush a matter of months to prove that the Iraq war effort has turned a corner, with September looking increasingly like a decisive deadline.

President Bush and congressional leaders began negotiating a second war funding bill yesterday, May 2, with Democrats offering the first major concession: an agreement to drop their demand for a timeline to bring troops home from Iraq. (By Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray, The Washington Post).

Pulling U.S. forces from Iraq could trigger catastrophe, CNN analysts and other observers warn, affecting not just Iraq but its neighbors in the Middle East, with far-reaching global implications.

Bush vetoes $124 billion emergency war-funding bill, setting up a confrontation with the Democratic-controlled Congress over his Iraq war policy.

Senate Democrats scored a surprise victory yesterday, March 27, in their bid to force President Bush to end the Iraq war, turning back a Republican amendment that would have struck a troop withdrawal plan from emergency military funding legislation.

Two roadside bomb attacks have killed five U.S. soldiers in Iraq , according to the U.S. military.