Bush Tells Nation He Will Begin to Roll Back 'Surge'
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President Bush tried to turn a corner in the fractious debate over Iraq last night by ordering the first limited troop withdrawals since voters elected an antiwar Congress last year. But the move did little to appease Democratic leaders, who dismissed it as a token gesture masking an open-ended...
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President George W. Bush will on Monday announce the withdrawal of up to 100,000 US troops from Europe and Asia as part of a major defense reorganization, officials said.
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Under pressure to start bringing  U.S. troops home from Iraq after Sunday's election, President  Bush said on Saturday that the U.S. mission must keep going to  help the new government get its footing.
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President Bush on Monday announced plans to shift as many as 70,000 U.S. troops who are now stationed in Western Europe and Asia in one of the largest realignments since the end of the Cold War.
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While "formidable challenges" remain in Iraq, President Bush said Saturday, the United States will start shifting more troops into support roles &#151; in addition to the troop withdrawals announced earlier in the week.
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ON IRAQ: President Bush acknowledged in a news conference Monday that US-trained Iraqi troops are not ready to take over their country&#39;s security and cautioned that next month&#39;s elections there will be only the beginning of a long process toward democracy
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President Bush vowed yesterday to make a sustained new military and political effort to beat back resurgent Taliban forces as he turned his attention back to Afghanistan and a conflict that has been overshadowed for the past couple of years by the larger war in Iraq.
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President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring more U.S. troops home from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.
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The White House took a step back Monday from President Bush's confident assertion two months ago that "absolutely, we're winning" the war in Iraq.
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'Surge' may be reversed by next March, says America's leading military commander in Iraq.
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President Bush plans to wait until early next year to announce a new strategy for Iraq, dropping his previous goal of addressing the nation before Christmas to stake out a fresh course based on several studies, the White House said today.
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WASHINGTON -- From a pending invasion of Fallujah to a proposed overhaul of Social Security, President Bush came out blazing immediately after his victory last week with plans for forceful policy strokes at home and abroad -- suggesting he will waste
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President Bush, admitting that "it's bad in Iraq," acknowledged Thursday that the United States needs a new approach in the unpopular war and promised to unveil details in an upcoming speech.
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In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic officials have begun their own quiet policy shift. After countless unsuccessful efforts to push Iraqis toward various political, economic and security...
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FORT JACKSON, South Carolina  - Issuing an upbeat new assessment of an unpopular war in Iraq, President George W. Bush hailed reduced violence and declining U.S. casualties as signs that a troop buildup was working.
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President Bush said in remarks prepared for his State of the Union speech on Wednesday night that the United States will open a "new phase" in post-election Iraq increasingly focused on training Iraqi security forces.
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With lawmakers openly skeptical of his troop buildup, President Bush will cast his plan for a gradual, limited withdrawal as a way to bring a divided America together.