Bush Doesn't See Longtime Presence in Iraq
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President Bush says he doesn't envision a longtime presence of U.S. troops in Iraq similar to post-World War II deployments in Europe and South Korea that continue today.
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Washington -- A statement by the former US administrator in Iraq that the Bush administration &quot;never had enough troops on the ground&quot; while he was the top civilian there entered immediately into the growing election debate about the war.
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President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring more U.S. troops home from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.
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President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday.
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President Bush is weighing a range of options in Iraq, including a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from violence-plagued cities and a troop buildup near the Iranian and Syrian borders, his top security aide said today.
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President George W.  Bush is weighing a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq, a spokesman said on Tuesday as he denied reports of a rift between the White House and resistant Pentagon chiefs.
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President Bush hasn't been surrounded by this many Democrats in quite some time, including several who spent much of this year unsuccessfully trying their best to oust him from the White House.
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When the next U.S. president is chosen, America may have about as many troops in Iraq as it did two years earlier, when voters tired of the war handed President George W. Bush's Republicans an election defeat.
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While President Bush acknowledges the need for major changes in Iraq, he will not use this week's Iraq Study Group report as political cover for bringing troops home, his national security adviser said Sunday.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s Iraq war speech left his potential successors facing a daunting inheritance: tens of thousands of troops in the war zone when the White House changes hands in January 2009.
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Bush's speech on Iraq and Petraeus's progress report on the 'surge' swayed few Americans, polls show.
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President George W. Bush, in the throes of a hotly contested electoral battle, has virtually deserted the White House for the campaign trail as he fights for his job in the home stretch to the November 2 election.
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Negative assessments of the war in Iraq -- the central issue in last month's midterm election -- continue to hold down President Bush's job approval ratings and could cast an pall on the final two years of his presidency.
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Bush has no plans to add troops in Iraq, but questions persist about whether the US force has been big enough.
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Addressing a growing campaign controversy, President George W. Bush suggested Wednesday that a missing cache of Iraqi explosives may have vanished before last year&#39;s US invasion
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With just a week until Election Day, President Bush may be busier than ever with his campaign. But the task of stabilizing Iraq and corralling insurgents is urgent.
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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.    Four weeks before Election Day, Democrat John Kerry pounced on the acknowledgment by former Iraq administrator Paul Bremer that the United States had "paid a big price" for insufficient troop levels...