Bush Dismisses Gloomy CIA Report on Iraq
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President Bush, determined to put an  optimistic face on deadly conditions in Iraq, said on Tuesday  that the CIA was just guessing when it said the war-racked  country was in danger of slipping into civil war.
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While a new intelligence estimate offers a gloomy assessment of Iraq's future, President Bush talks instead about brighter days ahead under a new prime minister and the promise of free elections. "Freedom is on the march," he told a campaign rally Thursday.
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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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BLAINE, Minn.  - President Bush said on Thursday  freedom was on the march in Iraq even as a U.S. intelligence  report depicted a bleak outlook for the country.
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Faced with a harshly critical new report, President Bush conceded Thursday that Iraq did not have the stockpiles of banned weapons he had warned of before the invasion last
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Iraq's president rejects a high-level US report calling for changes in American strategy in Iraq.
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President Bush today said he would declassify an intelligence document that reportedly finds that the Iraq war increased the terrorist threat to the United States, saying the American people should come to their own conclusions. The president said the media accounts of the report "create confusion in the minds" of Americans and suggested that the report had been leaked for political purposes.
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President George W. Bush said on Saturday he was troubled by a U.S. intelligence report's finding that al Qaeda had become entrenched in a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal region near Afghanistan.
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President Bush said on Thursday that he did not believe Senator John Kerry lied about his war record, but he declined to condemn the television
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US President George W Bush pledges to declassify parts of an intelligence report said to criticise the Iraq war.
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President Bush said today that the United States needs "a new approach" in Iraq, but he implicitly rejected a key recommendation of a bipartisan panel that issued a hard-hitting report yesterday: the holding of direct talks with Iran and Syria independently of other issues.
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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.
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John Kerry accused President Bush on Sunday of avoiding "the facts and the truth" about the White House's use of questionable intelligence to justify invading Iraq.
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One report contradicted Bush administrationÂs assertions that were provided as evidence of a close relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
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The White House on Friday played down a government report which said the war in Iraq is providing an important training ground and recruitment center for Islamic terrorists.
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Britain says a CIA report that concludes Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion last year nonetheless confirms that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein posed a threat that could not be ignored.
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MIAMI - Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war...