Bush defends Iraq troop plan, slams Democrats
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President George W. Bush on Thursday defended his plan for limited U.S. troop cuts in Iraq and denounced Democrats for not taking a stronger stand against an anti-war group's attack on the credibility of his top Iraq commander.
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Democratic critics of the Iraq war seized the offensive at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, disclosing plans for a symbolic rejection by the House of President Bush's decision to deploy additional troops and filing legislation in the Senate to require withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup on  Friday in a symbolic challenge to his unpopular war strategy  that is expected to lead to a mighty struggle over financing  the extra troops.
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President Bush defended the invasion of Iraq on Thursday despite a new report rejecting a prime justification for it, while Democratic challenger John Kerry said Bush "aggrandized and fictionalized" the threat from Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
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Statements by two top US policymakers contradicting administration dogma on Iraq provided new fuel to relentless Democratic criticism of President George W. Bush that have jolted his re-election bid.
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President Bush defended the Iraq  war before skeptical world leaders on Tuesday, called on them  to help post-Saddam Iraq develop into a democracy and vowed not  to retreat against an insurgency that threatens more violence  in the country.
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Senators in the US Congress debate a bill opposing President Bush's plan to send extra troops to Iraq.
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The U.S. House of Representatives denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup on Friday in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular war strategy.
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The Democratic presidential nominee accused the president on Tuesday of hiding embarrassments in Iraq, and Bush chastised Kerry for grasping at passing headlines instead of building a coherent proposal.
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House Democrats today unveiled a tightly worded resolution of opposition to President Bush's Iraq war plans, declaring that Congress "disapproves of the decision" to deploy more than 20,000 additional U.S. combat troops to Iraq.
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House Democrats rolled out their resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq on Monday, setting up a likely rebuke in a political landscape turned upside-down since Congress' overwhelming 2002 endorsement of force against Saddam Hussein.
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Republicans blocked a debate on the Iraq war in the U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing a setback to critics of President George W. Bush's plan to send in thousands more troops, but Democrats warned they would not give up trying to force Bush to change course.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday denounced President George W. Bush's Iraq troop buildup in a symbolic but politically potent challenge to his unpopular war strategy.
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US President George W. Bush defended his call to invade Iraq ahead of a report expected to say that Saddam Hussein did not have the weapons used by the Bush administration to justify the war.
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President Bush, speaking  to House of Representatives Democrats he has battled for six  years, said on Saturday he welcomed a vigorous debate on his  plan to increase U.S. combat troops in Iraq and he did not  question the patriotism of critics.
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President Bush threatened to veto legislation setting a date for a troop withdrawal from Iraq on Tuesday despite growing bipartisan calls in Congress for an end to U.S. participation in the war and sharp criticism of the Iraqi government.
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President Bush, ratcheting up a fight with Congress over Iraq, accused Democrats on Friday of conducting a political debate on the war while delaying action on money to upgrade equipment and give troops a pay raise.