White House report shows little progress
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A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one more political and security goal into the satisfactory column: efforts to let former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to rejoin the political process, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
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Despite stepped-up training, the readiness of the Iraqi military to operate independently of U.S. forces has decreased since President Bush's new strategy was launched in January, according to the White House progress report released yesterday.
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The White House predicted the economy would escape a recession and unemployment would remain low this year, though it acknowledged growth had already slowed.
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The pace of economic growth has been a point of contention throughout the Presidential campaign, and just in time for Election Day, the government&#39;s advance report on
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The Iraqi government is achieving only spotty military and political progress, the Bush administration conceded Thursday in an assessment that war critics quickly seized on as confirmation of their dire warnings. Within hours, the House voted to withdraw U.S. troops by spring.
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There were 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets last year, and a report to the president found serious shortcomings in the process.
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The White House report says most progress has been in the military realm, and will chide the Iraqi government for failing to capitalize on additional U.S. troops.
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A World Bank report that measures factors like corruption control, government accountability and absence of violence, released on Tuesday, shows little overall improvement in governance worldwide despite increasing focus on the issue.
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For years, President Bush and his advisers expressed frustration that the White House received little credit for the nation's strong economic performance because of public discontent about the Iraq war. Today, the president is getting little credit for improved security in Iraq, as the public...
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Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any.
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A day after U.S. President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to justify a limited troop withdrawal, the White House told Congress on Friday that Iraqi leaders had failed to meet half of their key goals.
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Administrative problems, not politics, led to a report that falsely showed a decline in worldwide terror attacks last year, the State Department inspector general's office said Tuesday.
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President Bush was briefed on a bipartisan panel's findings on Iraq on Tuesday but the White House doubted the group's report would provide a "magic bullet" to quickly resolve the Iraq war.
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The White House said seven months ago that it had released all the records on President Bush's stateside military service during the Vietnam War, yet new records are still dribbling out as Election Day approaches.
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The Medicare prescription drug benefit enacted in December has not provided the political boost among seniors that the White House expected, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment by the White House last month adequately...
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The White House told Congress Friday that Iraqi leaders have gained little new ground toward meeting key military and political goals, a discouraging assessment a day after President Bush said that progress justifies a large continued U.S. military presence there.