Bush says no shift on Iraq yet
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U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged on Thursday his Iraq strategy had made limited progress but said he would wait for a September security report before considering a change of course.
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President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new strategy for Iraq until the new year, aides said on Tuesday amid new polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.
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President Bush, facing a growing Republican revolt against his Iraq policy, has rejected calls to change course but will launch a campaign emphasizing his intent to draw down U.S. forces next year and move toward a more limited mission if security conditions improve, senior officials said yesterday.
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President Bush said Wednesday he will not be rushed into a decision on "a new way forward in Iraq," but pledged that he will give troops the tools they need to "complete their mission." He spoke after meeting with Cabinet and Pentagon officials.
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President George W. Bush put off changing course in Iraq for at least two months on Thursday but the U.S. House of Representatives signaled its frustration by calling for combat troops to leave by April.
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President Bush says the U.S. military will pull out of Iraq "as quickly as possible," but he is not endorsing Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that troops could begin returning home this year.
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President Bush said today that he was right to order the invasion of Iraq last year despite a new report by his chief U.S. weapons inspector that shows the country did not possess the weapons of mass destruction that were the original rationale for the war.
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With the Iraq elections two weeks away and no signs of the insurgency abating, Bush set no timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops.
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While seeking a new course in Iraq, President Bush has not changed his tone about the stakes involved in the war, the importance of victory or his definition of success.
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The Bush administration said on  Sunday the deadly insurgency in Iraq was unlikely to end by  January when elections are scheduled, but insisted there was no  need to delay them.
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President Bush said today he has no intention of sending U.S. forces into Iran, but he vowed to "respond firmly" if Iran steps up a campaign that the United States charges is aimed at killing U.S. troops and derailing democracy in Iraq.
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President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy.
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President Bush is weighing a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq, his spokesman said on Tuesday as he denied reports of a rift between the White House and resistant Pentagon chiefs.
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President Bush is considering a short-term increase of U.S. troop strength in Iraq, a spokesman said on Tuesday as he denied reports of a rift between White House officials pushing the option and resistant Pentagon chiefs.
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President Bush said in Kuwait that he had made no decision on bringing more U.S. troops home from Iraq.
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President Bush, pressed by Democrats  for an exit strategy from Iraq, will not give a timetable for a  U.S. withdrawal but stress in his State of the Union speech the  need to train Iraqi forces to take over security, the White  House said on Monday.
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US President George W. Bush refused to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq following the creation of its new government, saying &amp;quot;we will keep the force level there necessary to win&amp;quot;.