White House debating new Iraq strategies
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In a rush to chart a new course for the Iraq war, President Bush's national security team is debating whether additional troops are needed to secure Baghdad &#151; a short-term force increase that could be made up of all Americans, a combination of U.S. and Iraqi forces, or all Iraqis, a senior administration official said Saturday.
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President Bush faces the question of whether he is ready to embrace the spirit of the Iraq Study Group report and produce a new approach of his own.
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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan call went out to the Bush administration Sunday to face reality in Iraq and change its occupation policies.
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday that a new approach was required on Iraq, one day after a scathing report by the Iraq Study Group called for changing U.S. strategy.
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President Bush is weighing a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq, his spokesman said on Tuesday as he denied reports of a rift between the White House and resistant Pentagon chiefs.
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US President George W. Bush is set to host Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House for talks likely to focus on a hard-hitting report that urged a strategic change in Iraq.
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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.
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President George W. Bush called on Democrats and Republicans on Saturday to work together on a new strategy for the war in Iraq after a high-level group said the administration's current approach was not working.
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The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.
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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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U.S. officials in Iraq will use lessons from last year's bombing of a Shiite shrine to try to contain a new wave of violence following a new bombing of the mosque, the White House said Wednesday.
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The House will hold hearings next week on two key reports assessing political and military conditions in Iraq, jump-starting the debate over President Bush's strategy even before long-awaited testimony by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, due the following week.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy.
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Facing calls by lawmakers in President Bush's own party to change Iraq war strategy, the White House announced Tuesday it is "beginning a retooled mission in Iraq" after a disappointing interim report on Iraqi benchmarks.
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White House challenges Congressional report casting doubt on the success of the 'surge' strategy.
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As President George W. Bush weighs options for changing course in Iraq, his administration is split over the concept of sending in more troops, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush is considering a "laundry list" of options for Iraq that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested before resigning and agrees progress has been too slow, a senior White House official said on Sunday.