Republicans urge Bush to turn attention from Iraq, Vietnam with ...
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Nervous Republicans are urging President Bush to unveil a robust second-term agenda at his convention next week to shift voters&#39; focus from the unpopular war in Iraq and other issues that are a distraction to his re-election drive.
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President Bush called on Monday for ads attacking John Kerry's record in Vietnam to be stopped along with others run by independent groups, and said Kerry should be proud of his war service.
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With the election season and a key Iraq war progress report perched on the horizon, more Republicans will start to distance themselves from President Bush's Iraq policy, analysts say.
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US President George W. Bush set the stage Sunday for one of the Republican convention's central messages, telling cheering supporters here they must court opposition Democrats on his behalf.
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Senate Republicans sharply challenged President Bush's top military general and ambassador in Iraq on Tuesday in a sign that some within the GOP retain serious misgivings about the protracted war.
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With midterm elections around the corner, President Bush on Thursday will launch a series of speeches aimed at bolstering support for what the White House calls the "single ideological struggle" against terrorism, including the increasingly unpopular Iraq war.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush called yesterday on Democrats and Republicans 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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Ever since Republicans were routed last month in what was widely seen as a repudiation of his Iraq strategy, President Bush has been busily listing why his policies there will not be changing.
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Some of President Bush&#39;s Republican allies on Capitol Hill are warning of a credibility gap between Mr. Bush&#39;s more optimistic statements concerning Iraq and what is actually taking place in the country.
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Key Republican senators, signaling increasing GOP skepticism about President Bush's strategy in Iraq, have called for a reduction in U.S. forces and launched preemptive efforts to counter a much-awaited administration progress report due in September.
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Speakers at the Republican National Convention are addressing President Bush's weakest points by arguing the war in Iraq is an integral part of the "war on terror" and Saddam Hussein posed a deadly threat to the United States.
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President Bush, facing a growing Republican revolt against his Iraq policy, has rejected calls to change course but will launch a campaign emphasizing his intent to draw down U.S. forces next year and move toward a more limited mission if security conditions improve, senior officials said yesterday.
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Democrats want a different direction in Iraq. Republicans back President Bush.
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President George W. Bush and his generals appealed on Friday for more time to allow his troop increase to work in Iraq, but a U.S. Senate ally said September was still pivotal for evaluating the strategy.
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Republican presidential candidates need to make a "clean break" from President George W. Bush and the U.S. government or they will lose in November 2008, a veteran Republican leader said on Friday.
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Anger over the war and the country's direction could give Republicans trouble in the midterm elections
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President George W. Bush will address a war-weary American public next week to "lay out a vision" for the U.S. role in Iraq as he tries to sell his strategy in the wake of a crucial report to Congress.