Bush sidesteps talk of "civil war" in Iraq
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President Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al Qaeda lay behind the sectarian violence racking Iraq, and deflected talk of "civil war".
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President Bush Thursday flatly ruled out any delay in Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan. 30 despite the unrelenting insurgency, rejecting Sunni Muslim boycott threats and casting the vote as a critical step toward bringing U.S. troops home.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 23, 2004 - President Bush on Thursday shrugged off polls that suggest most Iraqis see Americans as occupiers not liberators.
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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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TALLINN, Estonia Nov. 28--President Bush said Tuesday morning he will press Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a plan to contain the escalating sectarian violence, though he refused to characterize the situation in Iraq as a civil war.
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President Bush rejected calls for a delay in next month&#39;s Iraqi elections, insisting Thursday that the vote was too important to put off even though violence and chaos still grip the country.
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After months of stubbornly refusing even to consider cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq, President George W. Bush has suddenly decided the idea is no longer taboo.
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President Bush sought Wednesday to dispel rumors that the U.S. plans to bring "all kinds of military to Africa," saying that is "simply not true."
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After months of stubbornly refusing even to consider cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush has suddenly decided the idea is no longer taboo.
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President George W. Bush, under pressure to change strategy in Iraq, meets Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday after making clear he does not support calls for U.S. talks with Iran or withdrawing American troops.
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President Bush defended the Iraq  war before skeptical world leaders on Tuesday, called on them  to help Iraq develop into a democracy and vowed not to retreat  against an insurgency that threatens more violence in the  country.
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WASHINGTON &#151; Confronted with strong opposition to his Iraq policies, President Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way. Actually, he says, people agree with him.
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President Bush on Tuesday rejected suggestions Iraq has fallen into civil war and urged allies to increase their forces in Afghanistan
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Not a word on Iraq. President Bush's inaugural address contained 2,000 words of passion and promise for his second term, but no direct mention of the war that could sink it.
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The White House went on the offensive yesterday against a new book that reports President Bush resisted demands to boost U.S. troop numbers in Iraq and misled Americans about the level of violence there.
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Amid wilting election-year support for the military campaign in Iraq, US President George W. Bush is distancing himself from the go-it-alone "war president" image he once embraced with relish.
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U.S. intelligence has concluded key elements of Iraq's violence could be described as a "civil war," a term Bush administration officials have been reluctant to use until now, a new report said on Friday.