Rice defends Bush Iraq strategy after House vote
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the Baghdad government's mixed report card against critics in Congress on Friday, saying the Bush administration needs two more months to find a "coherent way forward" in Iraq.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia  - President Bush, speaking to House of Representatives Democrats he has battled for six years, said on Saturday he welcomed a vigorous debate on his plan to increase U.S. combat troops in Iraq and he did not question the patriotism of critics.
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The U.S. Senate moved a step closer to repudiating U.S. President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy on Thursday when a key Democrat backed a Republican-crafted proposal opposing a troop increase.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular war strategy.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intervened to ward off a strike by Turkey in northern Iraq after Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers.
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The US House of Representatives was set to condemn President George W. Bush's new strategy on Iraq, in a rare rebuke for the country's commander-in-chief ahead of a bitter debate on whether to continue funding the unpopular war.
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As the House prepared to debate a resolution opposing President Bush's troop escalation in Iraq, the GOP House leader acknowledged that a number of Republicans are likely to support it.
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Leaders of a bipartisan panel on Iraq defended their call for a new war strategy Sunday, saying it embraces President Bush's goal of an Iraq government that can defend and sustain itself.
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Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended her integrity and honesty  as she clashed with senators about Iraq and vowed to press  diplomacy to repair ties strained by the war.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took the argument over American ideals and influence to her European critics' door Tuesday, and urged cooperation to move beyond disagreements over the war in Iraq.
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The U.S. House of Representatives denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup on Friday in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular war strategy.
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Condoleezza Rice begins fielding two days of tough questions from senators about her role in shaping Iraq policy, but she appears to face few obstacles to confirmation as the next US secretary of state.
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The White House played down a House of Representatives vote on Iraq that is expected to yield US lawmakers' first major repudiation of the increasingly unpopular war.
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Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's choice for US secretary of state, is challenged on Iraq at her confirmation hearing.
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A resolution rebuking President George W. Bush over his new strategy in Iraq moves to the US Senate Saturday, one day after it passed the House in a rare wartime blow to the US commander-in-chief.
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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 was resigned to a stinging rebuke from the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday over his Iraq war policy and his decision to send more troops, the White House said.