Bush Urges Iraqis to Vote, Lowers Expectations
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Iraqis to defy insurgents and vote in Sunday's elections and he  lowered expectations for the turnout amid violence that claimed  the lives of 36 U.S. troops.
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Iraq's interim president told George W.  Bush at the White House on Monday that the "armies of darkness"  would not stop Iraqis voting next month, even though there is  no let up in insurgents' efforts to wreck the election.
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President Bush warned on Saturday  that guerrilla violence in Iraq could worsen, even as U.S.  forces battled to stamp out resistance in the insurgent  stronghold of Falluja.
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President Bush has hailed Iraq's first  postwar election as a "grand moment in Iraqi history" but it  runs the risk of deepening communal divisions and pushing the  country toward civil strife.
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President Bush rejected calls for a delay in next month's Iraqi elections, insisting Thursday that the vote was too important to put off even though violence and chaos still grip much of the country.
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Welcoming Iraq's interim president to the White House offers President Bush a chance to persuade Iraqi minority groups to participate in next month's election &#151; a pivotal step toward a democracy still threatened by a violent insurgency.
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President Bush said Thursday that  Iraq's scheduled Jan. 30 elections should not be postponed  despite calls by some Iraqi politicians for a delay to improve  security against a deadly insurgency.
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President Bush will be on the ballot, at least in the realm of public opinion, when Iraq holds its first democratic election in nearly half a century.
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US President George W. Bush cautioned against showing weakness at a &quot;decisive moment&quot; in Iraq as he and visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi warned of worsening violence there ahead of elections scheduled for January.
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The Bush administration&#39;s hopes for Iraq rest heavily on whether Iraqis can shape their political future through elections, but it could be difficult for them to vote on Jan. 30, as now planned.
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President Bush, on a day of new violence in the Middle East, expressed determination to see Iraq hold elections on Jan. 30 and said they would show that terrorists cannot stop the march of democracy.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Seeking to buck up troops amid signs of growing impatience with extended tours of duty, President Bush told Marines yesterday to expect more attacks on US forces in the run-up to next month's Iraqi elections, but assured them that their cause is just and the United States will prevail in establishing a democratic Iraq.
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Iraq's president said Saturday that many Iraqis will stay away from the polls in his country's historic election because of security fears and warned the vote will fail if Sunnis don't participate.
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President Bush on Wednesday consulted with Iraqi leaders for the fifth time in recent days about the Jan. 30 elections and the White House acknowledged the possibility that the newly elected government might seek a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. forces.
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US President George W. Bush said he looked forward to welcoming Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of Iraq next week, amid election-year worries in the United States about deadly chaos in that war-torn country.
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More Iraqi interim government officials are calling for postponing Jan. 30 elections to ensure a higher Sunni voter turnout, a sign that a campaign of violence might be taking its toll on Iraqi resolve. The country's electoral commission, however, insists that voting take place as scheduled.
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President Bush said Thursday that Iraq's elections must not be delayed from their scheduled date of Jan.