Bush: Fighting won&#39;t stall Iraq vote
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President Bush said Thursday that the United States was committed to having elections take place as planned late next month in Iraq, despite reports that Iraqi security forces
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WASHINGTON - President Bush and Iraq&#39;s interim president agreed Monday to press ahead with Jan. 30 elections in Iraq, vowing that insurgents there would not be permitted to stop the nation from voting.
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Iraq's interim president told George W.  Bush at the White House on Monday that the "armies of darkness"  would not stop Iraqis voting next month, even though there is  no let up in insurgents' efforts to wreck the election.
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Today proved to be the toughest fought presidential campaigns in the history of the United States. However, Bush still needs to wait for the final resolution of voting dispute before being reelected.
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President Bush, who faces mounting congressional pressure to end the war, called Saturday for patience as U.S. forces conduct stepped-up operations in Iraq.
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President Bush pledged on Friday that  the U.S. military would do everything possible to safeguard  Iraq's Jan. 30 election but acknowledged that a fierce  insurgency could disrupt voting in key parts of the country.
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More than a dozen Iraqi political parties want elections in Iraq postponed until security at the polls can be guaranteed, but President Bush said Thursday the Jan. 30 date for elections is firm and should not be changed.
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Iraq&#39;s president said yesterday the insurgency will have won if his country&#39;s January elections are postponed, and he asked the international community to help quell the surge of violence that some fear might force a delay.
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President Bush called Sunday's elections in Iraq a success and promised the United States will continue trying to prepare Iraqis to secure their own country.
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The Bush administration said on  Sunday the deadly insurgency in Iraq was unlikely to end by  January when elections are scheduled, but insisted there was no  need to delay them.
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President George W. Bush predicted heavy fighting this summer for U.S. troops in Iraq as the U.S. Congress moved on Thursday toward a tense vote that would give Bush the money he wants for the unpopular war.
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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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President George W. Bush said he is ``determined&#39;&#39; to see Iraq hold elections Jan. 30 even as rebel attacks escalate, and any delay would ``send a wrong signal.
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President Bush understands there is growing U.S. concern over his handling of the Iraq war but will not rely on polls to determine when to withdraw troops, his spokesman said Sunday.
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President Bush and interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar vowed on Monday to press ahead with Jan. 30 elections in Iraq despite a surge in violence that has killed more than 70 people in recent days.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Iraqis to defy insurgents by voting in Sunday's elections and  said Americans who see the violence as "very discouraging"  should focus on long-term U.S. goals in the region.
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BAGHDAD - Campaigning for the first post-Saddam Hussein elections got under way on Thursday amid more bloodshed, as US President George W. Bush warned Iran and Syria to stop meddling in Iraq in the run-up to the vote.