Bush defends Iraq war effort
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DEFENSIVE SPEECH: President Bush gave a ringing defense of the war effort Tuesday in a speech that sounded like he'd already made up his mind to stay and fight.
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President Bush defended Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war on 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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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.
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US President George W Bush is set to defend his Iraq policy at the  annual debate of the UN General Assembly.
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President Bush defends his Iraq plan, a day after the House of Representatives begins debate on opposing it.
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US President George Bush defended his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan in his speech to the UN General Assembly, saying the two countries are making a transformation to democracy.
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky  - President George W. Bush kept up the pressure on the Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress on Friday to set aside misgivings about his troop buildup and fully fund U.S. forces in Iraq.
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With an eye to the next debate just one day away, US President George W. Bush has attacked critics of his Iraq policy despite an official report that Saddam Hussein had no chemical, biological or nuclear arms.
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President Bush vigorously defended his troop buildup in Iraq on Wednesday, and got a boost when Australian Prime Minister John Howard said his country's forces there won't change for the foreseeable future.
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ST. LOUIS  - 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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UNITED NATIONS - President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq in a speech on Tuesday to the United Nations, urging the world community to turn its attention to fighting the war on terrorism and humanitarian concerns.    He told a subdued U.N...
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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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WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania:A defiant President George W. Bush Wednesday fiercely defended the invasion of Iraq as a key part of the global war on terrorism he launched after the September 11, 2001 strikes.
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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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MARTINSBURG, W.Va.  -- President Bush on Wednesday defended the U.S. military buildup in Iraq in a patriotic Fourth of July speech, saying victory will require ''more patience, more courage and more sacrifice.''.
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The Bush administration defends its partial release of a report linking the Iraq conflict to global terrorism.
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US President George W. Bush was to launch a series of speeches, helped by world leader visits, to defend the unpopular war in Iraq two months before key US elections.