Bush Freedom Speech Not Sign of Policy Shift - Aide
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President Bush's inaugural vow to  spread freedom and stand with the oppressed against tyranny was  not meant to signal a shift in U.S. foreign policy but to  elaborate on a long-term goal, a senior U.S. official said on  Saturday.
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Crackdown by primer minister conflicts with Bush's pledge to promote democracy and freedom.
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In his speech last night, President Bush made a case for progress in Iraq by citing facts and statistics that at times contradicted recent government reports or his own words.
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Bush plans to emphasize building alliances, but without softening the policies that rankled many in his first term.
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The head of the CIA has told its employees that they must not &quot;identify with, support or champion opposition&quot; to the Bush administration.
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President George W. Bush, whose  administration has criticized anti-democratic moves in Russia,  said on Thursday he hopes for candid talks with Russian  President Vladimir Putin next week but will not lecture him.
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President Bush yesterday characterized his Inauguration Day goal of "ending tyranny in our world" as a long-term ideal rather than a new policy redefining U.S. relations with repressive governments, as he ratcheted back expectations of a more muscular approach to spreading freedom abroad.
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President Bush refused to explain to Congress on Wednesday why he commuted the prison sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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President Bush says he won't weigh in on the 2008 presidential campaign, at least not until after the primaries. He showed Monday, though, that he has no intention of staying out of lower-ticket contests.
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"America has spoken," President Bush said Wednesday as he claimed a second term and appealed to voters &#151; even those who opposed his candidacy &#151; to back his agenda.
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President George W. Bush on Monday spared former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby from prison, enraging Democrats who accused Bush of abusing power in a case that has fueled debate over the Iraq war.
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The presidentÂs national security adviser sidestepped questions about how the administration would react to the release of the Iraq Study GroupÂs report.
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While outlining an ambitious and aggressive agenda for his second term yesterday, President Bush didn&#39;t provide new detail that would help bring more definition to the generally hazy plans that he framed during his campaign.
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President Bush governs from a "love of power" and right-wing ideology rather than religious beliefs, and he has yet to hold anyone in his administration accountable for mistakes, former Vice President Al Gore said on Monday.
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Monday's address is expected to highlight improvements in Iraq, but not reforms for immigration or Social Security.
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The White House said Monday that the case of the Education Department paying a conservative commentator to plug its policies was an isolated incident, not a practice widely used by the Bush administration.
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Ever since Republicans were routed last month in what was widely seen as a repudiation of his Iraq strategy, President Bush has been busily listing why his policies there will not be changing.