White House faults Iraqi leaders
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A day after President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to justify U.S. troop reductions, the White House told Congress on Friday that Iraqi leaders had failed to meet half of their key goals.
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The White House denied that aides to President George W. Bush had a hand in crafting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to the US Congress last week.
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In a letter to the White House, a leading US Senate Democrat expressed &quot;profound dismay&quot; that the White House allegedly wrote a large portion of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to Congress last week.
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Senators from both parties accused the Bush administration Wednesday of incompetence in its efforts to rebuild Iraq and said the United States could lose the war
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hit  back on Sunday at Democratic presidential hopeful Senator  Hillary Clinton and other U.S. critics who have called for him  to be replaced, telling them &quot;to come to their senses.&quot;
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The White House sought to explain the missing explosives in Iraq; John Kerry said the president had put U.S. troops at risk.
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President Bush retains confidence in Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki despite the failure of the Shiite politician's signature effort to improve security in Iraq's bloody capital, the White House said as Bush prepared to host the new leader.
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Mounting demands from lawmakers for a new Iraq policy are battering President George W. Bush, but the White House insists the rising political heat will not force a quick about-face on troop withdrawals.
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President Bush huddled with top military leaders about the Iraq war Friday, and Pentagon officials defended efforts to rid the Iraqi national police of sectarian bias and corruption, even as an independent review found the force too tainted to continue.
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President Bush drew startling criticism Tuesday night from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration.
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The US House of Representatives delivered a stinging rebuke to President George W. Bush over his new strategy on Iraq, in a rare wartime blow to the country's commander-in-chief.
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Britain's opposition Conservatives accused the White House on Saturday of barring their leader from meeting President Bush because he had criticized Bush's ally Tony Blair over Iraq.
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The White House sharply criticized a conference yesterday sponsored by the Iranian government that questioned the reality of the Nazi Holocaust, calling the gathering "an affront to the entire civilized world" and to "traditional Iranian values of tolerance and mutual respect."
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi leaders for talks in Baghdad on Saturday to tell them Washington is disappointed with their efforts to reconcile Iraq's warring factions and to move ahead with renewed urgency.
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The White House report says most progress has been in the military realm, and will chide the Iraqi government for failing to capitalize on additional U.S. troops.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi leaders on Saturday to tell them Washington was disappointed with their efforts to reconcile warring factions.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki lashed out yesterday at US lawmakers who have called on him to step down, and accused American forces of committing "big mistakes" in killing and detaining Iraqi civilians in the hunt for insurgents.