Bush Says Iraqi Elections Must Proceed
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush said on  Wednesday it was important that elections in Iraq proceed as  planned next month, despite festering security concerns and the  withdrawal of a top Sunni party.
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Iraq's president on Wednesday insisted elections should go ahead next month as planned and the United States said it would send thousands more soldiers to provide extra security for the ballot.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed yesterday that Iraq would go ahead with national elections by January, even if rampant violence and insurgent activity make it impossible to open polls in such cities as Fallujah, which has been controlled for months by gangs and rebels.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister told  British media in an interview published on Monday he wanted  elections to go ahead as planned in January even if violence  prevented some Iraqis from voting.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed yesterday that planned elections will go ahead this January despite increasing violence that has left several cities outside of the interim government&#39;s control.
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President Bush, facing election-year   criticism that the Iraq war is a distraction from efforts to   stabilize Afghanistan, insisted on Friday allied forces were   making headway against a resurgent Taliban.
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President Bush and interim Iraqi  President Ghazi al-Yawar vowed on Monday to press ahead with  Jan. 30 elections in Iraq despite a surge in violence that has  killed more than 70 in recent days.
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Elections will go ahead in Iraq next  January as planned, despite the violence ravaging the country,  interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday.
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President Bush acknowledged on Friday the United States faced "tough" going in Iraq but he insisted elections will be held in January and that U.S. troops will come home when the country is on a path to democracy.
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President Bush pledged on Friday that  the U.S. military would do everything possible to safeguard  Iraq's Jan. 30 election but acknowledged that a fierce  insurgency could disrupt voting in key parts of the country.
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US President George W. Bush on Monday expressed frustration with efforts to train security forces in Iraq, and made clear that Iraqi elections set for January 30 would not spell the end of deadly violence.
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President Bush said today that there would be more bloodshed in Iraq before the Jan. 30 elections there, but he vowed that they would go on as scheduled.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Iraqis to defy insurgents and vote in Sunday's elections and he  lowered expectations for the turnout amid violence that claimed  the lives of 37 U.S. troops.
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Delaying Iraq's elections beyond  Jan. 30 would give insurgents a tactical victory and provide no  guarantee that security there would improve, Bush  administration officials said on Wednesday.
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President Bush joined the interim president of Iraq yesterday in insisting that Iraqi elections be held Jan. 30, saying that keeping to the election
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Under pressure to start bringing  U.S. troops home from Iraq after Sunday's election, President  Bush said on Saturday that the U.S. mission must keep going to  help the new government get its footing.
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U.S. President George W. Bush said on Thursday he would wait until after he receives a full Iraq progress report in September before making any decisions on the course of U.S. strategy in the war.