President Bush’ call to increase the American military commitment in Iraq ran intense congressional opposition Thursday from democrats and from moderate republicans who expressed profound skepticism. A day after the president set out a new strategy for bringing stability to Iraq , the white house found few allies on either side of the aisle when secretary of state Condoleezza rice appeared before the senate foreign relations committee. The reception she received suggested that Mr. Bush’s prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday had done little to build political support for sending additional troops to Baghdad. I think what occurred her today was fairly profound. 21 members, with one or two notable exceptions, were expressing outright hostility or disagreement with the president’s proposal, the committee’s new democratic chairman, Senator Joseph r. Biden Jr. of Delaware, said at the conclusion of Ms. Rice testimony. ( find out where all the helping verbs, verb in past perfect, verb in present, present participle, past participle, verb in simple past, verb: infinitive form, Prepositional phrase, adjective, adverb, clause) in this paragraph.
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