Bush, Blair say Afghan election success rebuke to Islamic extremism
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US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said after talks that Afghanistan's election success underscored the power of democracy and was a rebuke to Islamic extremism.
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US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have urged NATO countries to send extra troops to insurgency-hit Afghanistan, and drop conditions on the use of their forces which are complicating the mission.
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair say there is a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East, following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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President Bush also hailed the election as a signal that Iraqis had rejected the extremist ideologies and terrorism that have threatened to unravel both U.S. policy and Iraq.
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President Bush said Saturday that the voting in Afghanistan was a remarkable achievement due in some part to his administration. "A marvelous thing is happening in Afghanistan," Bush told a breakfast fund-raiser for local Republican candidates. "Freedom is powerful. Think about a society in which young girls couldn't go to school, and their mothers were whipped in the public square, and today they're holding a presidential election."
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President George W. Bush urged the   leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday to improve   cooperation in fighting terrorism as he mediated talks aimed at   easing tensions between the two U.S. allies.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said he ``warmly congratulated&#39;&#39; US President George W. Bush on winning a second term, and urged him to revitalize the Middle East peace process.
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When President Bush meets Iraq and  Afghanistan's leaders this week, his re-election campaign will  tout their countries as foreign policy successes but analysts  point to the political fragility of these men.
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President Bush, weakened by election setbacks at home and worsening violence in Iraq, meets his NATO allies on Tuesday to seek ways to overcome another major security challenge -- in Afghanistan.
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President Bush gives a thumbs up to the elections in Afghanistan as he speaks to supporters in St. Louis, the morning after his second debate with his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004.
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The vote count in Afghanistan's historic election resumed with President Hamid Karzai far ahead of his rivals in early results, as a new surge in attacks left seven people dead, including two US soldiers.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday that NATO must challenge its enemies in Afghanistan firmly and in a united way, despite recent reports of friction among Western countries.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's government was accused Wednesday of playing politics with fear and using the threat of terrorism to boost its chances of re-election. Political rivals are outraged at comments by ...
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Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair, often caricatured as US President George W. Bush&#39;s poodle, is no such thing, Bush said in an interview published Wednesday.
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President Bush cast the struggle against Islamic extremists as the successor to the battles against Nazism and Communism.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Britain must &quot;stand firm&quot; against a global terrorist threat amid news that three British soldiers had been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two main battlegrounds of the US-led war on terror.
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - President Bush warned on  Saturday that deadly guerrilla violence in Iraq and Afghanistan  could worsen in the coming weeks as the two countries move  toward national elections.