Bush hopes to buy time for Iraq strategy
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President Bush was set Thursday to ask the country for more time to let success bloom in Iraq as his administration saluted a Sunni sheik assassinated after challenging al-Qaida's presence in Anbar province.
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President Bush encouraged Iraq's  interim leaders on Monday to ensure minority Sunni Arabs are  included in Iraq's political process and the White House  brushed aside Democratic calls for a timetable for U.S. troops  to begin withdrawing.
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President Bush's mission in New York is to tell Americans what they can expect of him during four more years in the White House &#151; and to begin his final drive to convince them that's what they want.
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President Bush on Wednesday consulted with Iraqi leaders for the fifth time in recent days about the Jan. 30 elections and the White House acknowledged the possibility that the newly elected government might seek a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. forces.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President George W. Bush, faced with growing calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, pleaded with Americans on Saturday for patience and cited progress in the past two months.
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President George W. Bush, facing Democratic pressure to begin pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, urged Congress on Friday to wait for a crucial assessment of his strategy before making any judgments about the war.
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US President George Bush is due to address the nation on his Iraq plans, likely to include a limited troop reduction.
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President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new strategy for Iraq until the new year, aides said on Tuesday amid new polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.
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President Bush said critics of his Iraq policies are advocating a "cut and run" strategy that would draw terrorists to American soil.
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_ President Bush insists it&#39;s not a waste of time to try to promote freedom in places like Iraq and other parts of the Middle East.
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President Bush said Wednesday he will not be rushed into a decision on "a new way forward in Iraq," but pledged that he will give troops the tools they need to "complete their mission." He spoke after meeting with Cabinet and Pentagon officials.
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair will seek this week to use his support for President Bush in Iraq as a lever for greater US commitment to the quest for peace in the Middle East.
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The White House is pushing hard to buy time for its Iraq strategy, offering Congress unusual access to President Bush's top military and diplomatic advisers.
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Facing strong disapproval of his war strategy, President George W. Bush will go to the Middle East for a summit with Iraq's prime minister next week to discuss how to speed up the slow transfer of security responsibilities to Baghdad's control.
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Quickening his search for a new war strategy, President Bush sought ideas from lawmakers on Friday and lined up three days of urgent talks with military brass, diplomats and outside experts on how to stop Iraq's slide toward anarchy.
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Seeking to buck up troops amid signs of growing impatience with extended tours of duty, President Bush told Marines yesterday to expect
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With 15 months to go in office, President George W. Bush wants the U.S. Congress to know he has no plans to fade quietly away.