Bush still calls shots on war, for now
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Call President Bush a lame duck, a weakened leader, a disappointed president whose party lost control of Congress &#151; and the decider when it comes to a new approach in Iraq. After all the studies and recommendations and talk, the president will call the shots.
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President Bush has not been shy about asserting robust powers for the presidency in waging war, but lately he has seemed to concede that Congress has a role to play as well. Lawmakers, he has indicated, are within their rights to try to cap total deployments or limit where troops can go in Iraq.
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President George W. Bush has defended the invasion of Iraq despite a new report rejecting. Thursday ratcheted up the political fight over Iraq
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President Bush is not contemplating withdrawing forces from Iraq now despite an erosion of support among Republicans for his war policy, the White House said Monday.
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Leading Democrats today said that President Bushâs likely call for continued patience in the war would simply extend an âunconscionableâ policy.
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Bush likens the conflict to previous struggles, but analysts say the analogies can go only so far.
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President Bush says he will continue to work with other nations to increase pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
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President Bush aims to inspire patience with the war Tuesday by arguing that the fight against extremists in Iraq is crucial to U.S. security and the future of a strategic, struggling region.
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US President George W. Bush is fighting off new claims he did not fulfil his duties with the Air National Guard during the Vietnam era.
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HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii  - President George W. Bush said on Saturday his resolve to press ahead with the effort to stabilize Iraq was as strong as ever, the latest indication he is unlikely to call for a major change in strategy when he delivers a report to Congress next week.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31 -- President Bush renewed his effort to shore up flagging public support for fighting the Iraq war, appearing before one of the country's major veterans groups to cast the war as part of a larger ideological struggle against radical Islamic terrorism.
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House of Representatives Democrats  will more than fully fund President George W. Bush's request  for money to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, but  they are still debating conditions that could be attached,  senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives said on  Thursday.
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President George W. Bush has asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stay on in Bush&#39;s second term to keep running the Iraq war and adapting the US military to face post-Cold War threats like terrorism, a senior Bush
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Today&#39;s attack on the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, must serve to remind Americans &quot;that the terrorists are still on the move,&quot; President Bush said today.
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President Bush sought on Monday to regain momentum after John Kerry's jump in the polls, calling him a danger to world peace and shifting gears to drop a health policy speech and focus instead on the war on terror in which the president still holds a solid lead.
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In a debate rematch, President Bush defended his invasion of Iraq and said &quot;I wasn&#39;t happy when we found there weren&#39;t weapons&quot; that prompted his administration to go to war against Saddam Hussein.
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The President is trying to fend off a Republican rebellion over the war. But broad-brush propaganda may not work this time