White house faults Iraqi leaders
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A day after President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to justify U.S. troop reductions, the White House told Congress on Friday that Iraqi leaders had failed to meet half of their key goals.
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The visit to Washington of Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister spurred a new salvo Thursday in the battle for the White House. Vice President Dick Cheney offered a pointed rebuke of Sen. John
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Many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration's miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum.
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Liberal groups are frustrated a deal on Iraq war spending does not include troop withdrawals and Republicans disappointed the White House is accepting billions in extra domestic spending
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki lashed out yesterday at US lawmakers who have called on him to step down, and accused American forces of committing "big mistakes" in killing and detaining Iraqi civilians in the hunt for insurgents.
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The White House rejected calls for a new intelligence assessment of Iraq to be finished before November 7 US elections in which the unpopular war is expected to be a factor.
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WASHINGTON -- One day after returning from Middle East meetings that defined anew the depths of his administration's problems in Iraq, President Bush invited two key Iraqi leaders to the White House in the coming weeks, expanding his contacts among the Shi'ite Muslim and Sunni Arab communities.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday blamed Bush administration failings in Iraq for strengthening the strategic position of Iran, which he says must be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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President Bush spoke by telephone Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to reaffirm the importance of holding the Jan. 30 elections in that country, the White House said.
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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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Mounting demands from lawmakers for a new Iraq policy are battering President George W. Bush, but the White House insists the rising political heat will not force a quick about-face on troop withdrawals.
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The White House said it had concerns that Iraqi assets in American banks could be vulnerable to claims from victims of Saddam Hussein.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 6  - Democrats on Wednesday slammed the White House Wednesday for leading a months-long search to uncover an Iraqi weapons program that apparently did not exist when the United States invaded the country.
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Britain's opposition Conservatives  accused the White House on Saturday of barring their leader  from meeting President Bush because he had criticized Bush's  ally Tony Blair over Iraq.
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The White House sharply criticized a conference yesterday sponsored by the Iranian government that questioned the reality of the Nazi Holocaust, calling the gathering "an affront to the entire civilized world" and to "traditional Iranian values of tolerance and mutual respect."
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The White House denied that aides to President George W. Bush had a hand in crafting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to the US Congress last week.
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The White House tries to shore up support for its Iraq strategy, under fire from two more Republican Senators.