Iraq sliding off radar in White House race: report
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The Iraq war is beginning to take a back seat in the 2008 White House campaign pushed aside by concerns over the US economy and other domestic issues, the New York Times reported Thursday.
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A White House update on progress in Iraq will show meager gains have been made on the 18 benchmarks Congress established for the Iraqi government, said two sources outside the White House. President Bush will report Friday that one benchmark has been upgraded since July to satisfactory, the sources said.
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Support for President Bush's management of the Iraq war has dropped to an all-time low even as his overall approval remains tepid but steady, according to a CNN poll released Monday.
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President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new Iraq strategy until the new year, the White House said on Tuesday amid polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.
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The abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and detention without trial of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay may still draw headlines in US newspapers but the subjects have been notably absent from the White House race.
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WASHINGTON - Coming a month before the presidential elections, the final US report on Iraq&#39;s weapons capability quickly became a political tool as both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry&#39;s campaign used it to buttress their positions.
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The Bush administration is nearing the release of an interim report on 18 benchmarks for the Iraqi government, with fresh signs that some Republican senators are impatient with the White House plan for Iraq.
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The White House on Friday played down a government report which said the war in Iraq is providing an important training ground and recruitment center for Islamic terrorists.
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President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new strategy for Iraq until the new year, the White House said on Tuesday amid polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.
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BAGHDAD -- As Iraq's campaign season winds into its final week, voters will have to make their choices in a fog of limited information.
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A House Committee chairman charges that large numbers of crucial Iraq-related messages have vanished. The White House says not so. Who's right?
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Steady condemnation from conservatives for the Iraq Study Group report may be providing some cover to the Bush administration as it completes its own review of strategy in Iraq, apparently with little enthusiasm for the panel's prescription of U.S. troop withdrawal and dialogue with Syria and Iran.
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A new National Intelligence Estimate about Iraqâs future left the White House and its opponents vying over whether its findings buttressed their vastly different views.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- George Bush and John Kerry aren't the only ones with their eyes on the White House -- local TV newscasts in cities including L.A. and Gotham are devoting little political attention to anything other than the presidential race, according to a study released Thursday.
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After a year of acrimony, gridlock, and snarling showdowns over Iraq, Congress and President George W. Bush will cede the spotlight in 2008 to a White House race awash in historic potential.
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A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one political and security goal into the satisfactory column: de-Baathification
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WASHINGTON - The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning. An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion...