Barnes Upset About Helping Bush Avoid War
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Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes' recollections over how he helped President Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War have evolved over the years from fuzzy to distinct, with him now expressing remorse for what he did.
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The evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson has set off a partisan fight by telling a television interviewer that President Bush serenely assured him just before the invasion of Iraq, &quot;Oh, no, we&#39;re not going to have any casualties.
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PRESIDENT George Bushâs military record has come under fresh scrutiny, after new memos revealed he refused a direct order and failed to meet the standards expected of him during his time in the Texas air national guard.
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Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he warned President Bush before U.S. troops invaded Iraq that the United States would sustain casualties but that Bush responded, "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."
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Newscaster says flap over story on Bush&#39;s National Guard service had no role in decision. â¢ Early reporting career (1950-62): Worked for The Associated Press; United Press International; KSAM Radio in Huntsville
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A debate is intensifying inside the White House over whether President George W. Bush should try to prevent more Republican defections by announcing intentions for a gradual withdrawal of troops from high-casualty Iraqi areas, the New York Times said on Monday.
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President Bush said in a television interview he does not think he received favorable treatment that allowed him to get into the Texas Air National Guard while many of his peers were drafted to fight in Vietnam.
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The Bush administration does not plan to take immediate action or pressure foreign governments to act against individuals or companies that may have violated U.N. sanctions against Saddam Hussein because it fears igniting new tensions with allies -- and undermining the president's message that he is working closely with the international community, according to U.S. officials.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush said in a  television interview he does not think he received favorable  treatment that allowed him to get into the Texas Air National  Guard while many of his peers were drafted to fight in Vietnam.
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President Bush's distaste for news conferences isn't limited to his own backyard.
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President Bush has apologized to the widow of a Wiccan soldier after she was excluded from a Nevada meeting this week that the president held with the families of soldiers killed in combat.
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White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley said Sunday that President Bush realizes "we need to make some changes" in the Iraq war policy. He was reacting to questions about a Rumsfeld memo that offered a variety of options for the future of the nearly 4-year-old war.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's senior advisers on Iraq have recommended that he stand by his current war strategy, and he is unlikely to order more than a symbolic cut in troops before the end of the year, administration officials said yesterday.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s Vietnam-era Texas Air National Guard commander complained in 1972 that Bush was going over his head to try to &quot;get out of coming to drill&quot; in Texas and later said higher
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A former Texas Air National Guard official who served at the same time as President Bush says he believes the bigger story about gaps in Bush's service is being overlooked in disputes over the validity of certain Guard documents.
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President Bush feels "terrible" for the family of I. Lewis Libby but does not intend to intervene now in the case of the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who was sentenced to prison Tuesday, the White House said.
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WASHINGTON -- While President Bush acknowledges the need for major changes in Iraq, he will not use this week's Iraq Study Group report as political cover for bringing troops home, his national security adviser said yesterday.