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President Bush turned the tables Saturday on Sen. John Kerry, declaring "the best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me," and pledged to oppose mandatory military service. The Democrat stuck to domestic issues, blaming Bush for a shortage of flu vaccines.
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WASHINGTON - 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 year, but insisted that "we were right to take action" against Saddam Hussein.   "America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison," Bush said in a surprise statement to reporters as he prepared to fly to Wisconsin...
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WASHINGTON - President Bush in a television interview Monday defended his decision to go to war in Iraq and said he does not regret flying to an aircraft carrier on May 1, 2003, to announce an end to major combat in that country.
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President Bush, accused by Democrats of joining the National Guard to avoid going to Vietnam and then shirking his duty, told a Guard convention on Tuesday he is proud of his service but did not address lingering questions about his record.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday  called for the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm his choices for  his top military advisers and warned that the risk of new  attacks on the United States had not ceased.
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George W Bush defends anti-terror laws a day after they were rejected by a US Senate committee.
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President Bush strongly backed Iraq's prime minister on Thursday, saying Iraqi forces would be prepared more quickly to take over security and that Washington was not looking for a "graceful exit".
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President George W. Bush said Friday the presidential race boils down to who can keep American homes safer from terrorists and contended Democrat John Kerry was not up to the task.
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President Bush said that he was prepared to slow or even halt further reductions of forces, emphasizing that any decision depended on security and the stability of the Iraqi government.
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President Bush defended Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war Monday and  said training Iraqi police and army to take over responsibility  for the country's security from U.S. troops has been difficult.
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President Bush made an impassioned defense of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - President Bush accused John Kerry on Monday of employing "shameless scare tactics" on Social Security and the military draft just before voters go to the polls. In an interview with The Associated Press, Bush also said he'd be disappointed if the Iraqi people chose an Islamic fundamentalist government in free elections, "but democracy is democracy."  "If that's what the people choose, that's what the people choose," the president said, two weeks before facing his own re-election...
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President Bush voiced his confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld at a White House news conference today.
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President George W. Bush praised the part-time soldiers of the National Guard, thousands of whom are in Iraq, while steering clear of controversy over his own service 30 years ago.
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SYDNEY - President Bush vigorously defended his troop buildup in Iraq today, and got a boost when Prime Minister John Howard of Australia said his country's forces there won't change for the foreseeable future.
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GDANSK, Poland  - President George W. Bush thanked Poland on Friday for being ready to host the U.S. missile shield and sent a clear signal he would not scrap the plan in the face of an alternative offer from Russia.
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President George W. Bush,   seeking to fend off growing election-year discontent with the   Iraq war, said on Thursday his wars in Iraq and against   terrorism were keeping Americans safe.