Lugar Comments on Iraq, Bush Cabinet Changes
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(Indianapolis-December 6, 2004) - Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) was in town to visit workers helping the hungry over the weekend. Lugar spent part of the weekend at the Gleaners food bank warehouse.
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Secretary of Defense tempers comments with concern about continued attacks and need to build up Iraqi forces. Deadly attacks: Suicide bombers detonated two car bombs within 15 minutes of each other in Baghdad
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The outgoing top U.S. general in Iraq diplomatically aired his differences with the commander in chief on Thursday, telling lawmakers that President Bush has ordered thousands more troops into Iraq than needed to tamp down violence in Baghdad.
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The Iraqi government has made mixed progress in meeting political and security goals, a U.S. official said on Thursday, citing a report that may add to rising calls for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House two days before he resigned last month the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed a major change, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs:
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Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana has become one of the highest-ranking Republicans in Congress to call for a troop drawdown in Iraq.
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Germany&#39;s interior minister said it was time to put aside differences with the United States over Iraq and look to the future as President Bush won a second term, but another
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Text of a letter from the co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group accompanying their report on how to revamp U.S. policy in Iraq:
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) - In what appeared to be a bipartisan attack Sunday, Sens. Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar accused the Bush administration of incompetence in its handling of security in Iraq.
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US President George W. Bush's re-election could herald a new look for his administration, with expectations that he will reshuffle his cabinet while maintaining enough continuity to tackle his priorities: Iraq and the war on terror.
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President Bush said yesterday that he will spend the weekend considering changes in his Cabinet for his second term, feeding speculation inside and outside the White House over shake-ups in key agencies in coming weeks.
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Iraqi Shi'ite politicians called for a major cabinet overhaul on Sunday, two days after U.S. troops arrested a bodyguard for a top Sunni leader on suspicion of plotting to bomb the fortified government compound.
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American support for the fledgling Iraqi government is not unconditional, and Iraq should expect changes in the U.S. role, incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Saturday.
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JEDDAH, 16 November 2004 - With Colin Powell stepping down, changes that were bound to happen in the second Bush administration are reaching the higher echelons of the Cabinet.
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While President Bush acknowledges the need for major changes in Iraq, he will not use this week's Iraq Study Group report as political cover for bringing troops home, his national security adviser said Sunday.
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CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 24 -- Despite political pressure for a change of course in Iraq, the White House hopes to keep in place its existing military strategy and troop levels there after the mid-September report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, administration officials...