With Report on Iraq Arms Looming, Bush Defends War
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President Bush tried in advance today to deflate a report that will undercut some of his rationale for the Iraq war.
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President George W. Bush,   seeking to fend off growing election-year discontent with the   Iraq war, said on Thursday his wars in Iraq and against   terrorism were keeping Americans safe.
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President Bush defended his decision to go to war in Iraq in a speech on Tuesday to the United Nations, urging the world community to turn its attention to the fighting the war on terrorism and humanitarian concerns.
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President Bush said the finding that Iraq had no illicit arms at the time of the invasion in no way undermined his decision to go to war.
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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 - Coming a month before the presidential elections, the final US report on Iraq&#39;s weapons capability quickly became a political tool as both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry&#39;s campaign used it to buttress their positions.
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Viewpoint: President Bush reaches into history in defense of the war. But he's at odds with the realities on the ground
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The assessment contrasted with statements by President George W. Bush before the invasion, when he cited a growing threat from Iraqâs weapons of mass destruction as the reason for overthrowing President Saddam Hussein.
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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 &#151; and a sharp new attack on rival John Kerry's stance &#151; for a speech Monday.
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An upcoming report by Gen. David Petraeus on the results of President George W. Bush's troop build-up in Iraq is likely to offer plenty of firepower for both sides to debate in the U.S. presidential campaign.
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With an eye to the next debate just one day away, US President George W. Bush has attacked critics of his Iraq policy despite an official report that Saddam Hussein had no chemical, biological or nuclear arms.
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President Bush defends his Iraq plan, a day after the House of Representatives begins debate on opposing it.
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The major US report on Saddam Hussein&#39;s pre-war weapons capacity has concluded Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the US invasion, contradicting the Bush administration&#39;s main argument for war.
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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 Bush's new status report on the war strongly implies that the administration believes its military strategy will take many more months to meet its goals
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In Washington, in the tense months before war in Iraq, Charles Duelfer was confident. "Of course he is developing his weapons of mass destruction," the American arms expert wrote of Saddam Hussein.
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US President George W. Bush on Thursday defended his decision to go to war against the &quot;unique threat&quot; of Iraq, despite an official US report that Baghdad did not have weapons of mass destruction, as a Shiite militia pledged to disarm.