Bush says he miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq
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President George W. Bush reportedly said he miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq and that the long insurgency was the product of a "swift victory."
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A day after a Pentagon report described spreading sectarian violence and increasingly complex security problems in Iraq, President Bush painted a rosier picture.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush said for the first time on Thursday he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" after U.S. troops went to Iraq, The New York Times reported...
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PRESIDENT BUSH admitted yesterday that the murderous bombing campaign by fighters in Iraq was âhaving an effectâ and that US-trained Iraqi troops were nowhere near ready to take over the countryâs security.
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The former US official who governed Iraq after the invasion said yesterday that the United States made two major mistakes: not deploying enough troops in Iraq and then not
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Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday the Bush administration made  some bad decisions in Iraq and was unprepared for stabilizing  the country in a rare acknowledgment of mistakes.
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President Bush has lost credibility with world leaders over the war in Iraq and has handled the war there &quot;incompetently&quot; since the March 2003 invasion, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Tuesday.
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Paul Bremer, the former US governor of Iraq, said that the US didn&#39;t have enough ground troops in Iraq after the fall of Baghdad, contradicting comments made by the Bush administration, the Associated Press reported.
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President Bush stopped short of a formal recognition of independence in his comments on Monday.
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President Bush accused Democrat John Kerry on Monday of &quot;new contradictions of his old positions on Iraq&quot; and defended the US-led invasion a day before addressing skeptical world leaders at the United Nations.
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President Bush took his critics to task Saturday for using the poor marks the Iraqi government received on a progress report this week as reason to argue that the war is lost.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - Many of President Bush's  assertions about progress in Iraq -- from police training and  reconstruction to preparations for January elections -- are in  dispute, according to internal Pentagon documents, lawmakers  and key congressional aides on Sunday.
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President George W. Bush called US opponents in Iraq some of the most brutal men on Earth and acknowledged that serious problems remain in many Iraqi cities.
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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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LAS VEGAS - President George W. Bush on Tuesday acknowledged the hardships the war in Iraq has caused Guard members and their families, and assailed Sen. John Kerry for arguing that the United States is spending
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RENO, Nev, Aug. 28--President Bush played down the failure of the Iraqi government to meet political benchmarks set by the U.S. Congress, telling American Legionnaires Tuesday morning that it makes no sense to ignore real military progress despite the Iraqi government's failure to approve all the...
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President Bush, in an interview published Friday, told the New York Times he does not believe Sen. John Kerry lied about his Vietnam military record.