GOP hopefuls fault Bush on Iraq, style
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President Bush drew startling criticism Tuesday night from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a supporter of President Bush and a friend of Sen. John Kerry, chastised the two candidates Friday for their superheated campaign rhetoric on Iraq and the war on terror.
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The top Republican White House candidates in 2008 are standing firm against quick troop withdrawals from Iraq -- while trying to distance themselves from an increasingly unpopular President George W. Bush any other way they can.
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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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FORT MYERS, Florida  - The Iraq war reclaimed the spotlight in the Republican race for the White House on Saturday as front-runner John McCain accused rival Mitt Romney of backing a set withdrawal of U.S. troops -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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The Democratic presidential nominee accused the president on Tuesday of hiding embarrassments in Iraq, and Bush chastised Kerry for grasping at passing headlines instead of building a coherent proposal.
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WASHINGTON - Senators from both parties urged the Bush administration on Sunday to make a realistic assessment of the situation in Iraq and adjust its policies aimed at pacifying the country. But Bush readied a firm defense of his Iraq policy - and a sharp new attack on rival John Kerry's stance - for a speech Monday...
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President Bush blistered Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday as an apostle of "retreat in Iraq" and tax-and-spend liberalism at home. The administration is "out of touch with reality" Democratic running mate John Edwards countered in a campaign growing more caustic by the day.
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President Bush ridiculed Senator John Kerry today, and Mr. Kerry assailed the president's Iraq policy in a statement issued by his campaign.
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President Bush accused Sen. John Kerry on Friday of being too inconsistent to lead the country but Kerry shot back that the president was using that line of attack to shift attention from his deceptions on Iraq.
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Division between President Bush and Congress over the Iraq war hardens.
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Voters got a chance to quiz the 10 GOP presidential candidates on Tuesday night -- and they wanted answers on Iraq, health care and global warming. Addressing a series of hot-button topics, the White House hopefuls directed as much of their firepower at President Bush as they did at each other.
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US Republican Senator John McCain,a key moderate who has often criticized the policies of old political foe President George W. Bush, on Monday offered a stout defense of Bush&#39;s Iraq policy and his leadership.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry traded sharp accusations over Iraq and the war on terror on Monday, with Bush condemning Kerry's "strategy of retreat" and Kerry saying the administration's Iraq policy had been "hijacked by ideologues."
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President Bush [related, bio] says John Kerry&#39;s latest attacks over Iraq have taken on the angry tone of his primary foe Howard Dean [related, bio].
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'Iraq summer' activists claim credit for certain defections on Bush's Iraq policy. Republicans dispute that.
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Republican Mitt Romney on Wednesday jabbed at President Bush, saying the image of the United States has suffered globally based on the perception that it invaded Iraq unilaterally.