In Address at U.N., Bush Defends Decision to Invade Iraq
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The president asserted that Iraq will be a beacon of freedom and that nations should not falter in the fight against terror.
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President George W. Bush defended the war in Iraq in a speech to the United Nations, saying the US-led coalition had enforced &quot;the just demands of the world&quot; by ousting Saddam Hussein.
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President Bush's ambassador to the United Nations defended the world body on Wednesday, after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the United States, not the U.N., was best for democracy.
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eorge W. Bush&#39;s riposte to John Kerry&#39;s NYU Iraq speech was swift and had nothing to do with the platitudes offered up at the UN General Assembly earlier today.
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The United States and its coalition partners on Thursday defended the war in Iraq after UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asserted it was &quot;illegal&quot; because it didn&#39;t have Security Council support.
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UNITED NATIONS (CP) - An unapologetic President George W. Bush, who threw the United Nations into angry upheaval last year by attacking Iraq without its approval, returned Tuesday to ask for more help in the chaotic country.
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President George W. Bush, in his fourth annual address to the United Nations, equated the US battle with insurgents in Iraq with his approach to the global fight against terrorism.
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President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq, while John Kerry said that Mr. Bush lacked the record to justify re-election.
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President Bush and other senior administration officials yesterday defended their decision to invade Iraq despite errors in prewar intelligence, echoing findings in a draft report by the top
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UNITED NATIONS -- Despite an appearance at the United Nations that was friendlier and more optimistic than any of his previous speeches to the world body, President Bush still faces a skeptical crowd at the UN.
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UNITED NATIONS - President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the country's struggling government and said the proper response to spreading violence "is not to retreat, it is to prevail."   The country's prime minister, Ayad Allawi, offered an upbeat assessment after Bush's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying, "We are winning, we are making progress in Iraq, we are defeating terrorists," even as insurgents claimed they had killed a second American hostage in two days.    Of the brutal slayings, Bush said, "We will not allow these thugs and terrorists to decide your fate and to decide our fate."   Yet in a sign of continuing world unease with the situation, U.N...
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Two years after warning the  United Nations to act against Iraq or risk irrelevancy,  President Bush on Tuesday defended the U.S.-led invasion and  urged skeptical world leaders to help Iraq become a democracy  in the face of a deadly insurgency.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday defended his plan for limited U.S. troop cuts in Iraq and denounced Democrats for not taking a stronger stand against an anti-war group's attack on the credibility of his top Iraq commander.
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Leading allies of the United States defended the legal basis for the US-led invasion of Iraq and their involvement there after UN chief Kofi Annan reignited the debate over its legitimacy.
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President Bush said Thursday he had  been right to invade Iraq even though a new U.S. report found  Baghdad did not have the banned weapons cited as the main  reason for the war.
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US President George W. Bush was to launch a series of speeches, helped by world leader visits, to defend the unpopular war in Iraq two months before key US elections.
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After telling voters Monday that election foe John Kerry has fish-tailed about the war in Iraq, President Bush prepared to answer criticism about the war effort in a speech today to the United Nations General Assembly.