White House spurns Republican Iraq proposal
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The White House rejected on Sunday a proposal by two influential Republican senators that would require President George W. Bush to plan for a possible troop withdrawal from Iraq by the end of the year.
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The White House strongly rejected accusations by Democratic presidential contender John Kerry that President George W. Bush had used a front group to attack his Vietnam war record.
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With the Iraq Study Group report due on Wednesday, the Bush administration has notified allies that it will not budge on certain aspects of Iraq policy, whatever recommendations are put forth by the independent panel of 10 prominent Republicans and Democrats.
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President George W. Bush was  resigned to a stinging rebuke from the U.S. House of  Representatives on Friday over his Iraq war policy and his  decision to send more troops, the White House said.
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The White House rejected calls for a new intelligence assessment of Iraq to be finished before November 7 US elections in which the unpopular war is expected to be a factor.
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U.S. President George W. Bush's fellow Republicans in the Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic proposal to force him to withdraw American combat troops from Iraq after a rare round-the-clock debate.
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Liberal groups are frustrated a deal on Iraq war spending does not include troop withdrawals and Republicans disappointed the White House is accepting billions in extra domestic spending
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U.S. 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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The White House is resisting a congressional request for an economic adviser to President Bush to testify about the administration's fuel economy proposal.
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Senate Republicans yesterday rejected a bipartisan proposal to lengthen the home leaves of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, derailing a measure that war opponents viewed as one of the best chances to force President Bush to accelerate a redeployment of forces.
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White House to review its Iraq strategy earlier than planned because of a growing backlash.
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The White House has scrapped its list of Iraq allies known as the 45-member "coalition of the willing," which Washington used to back its argument that the 2003 invasion was a multilateral action, an official said on Friday.
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President Bush said today that the United States needs "a new approach" in Iraq, but he implicitly rejected a key recommendation of a bipartisan panel that issued a hard-hitting report yesterday: the holding of direct talks with Iran and Syria independently of other issues.
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The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning. An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion.
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The Bush administration backed away Monday from a proposal that critics said would have forced many of the 2 million poor, elderly or disabled families who use government housing vouchers to foot more of the rent on their own or find substandard apartments.
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The White House challenges a report for Congress saying Iraq has met few targets used to measure progress.
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Senate Republicans blocked a plan on Wednesday to give U.S. troops in Iraq more home leave, defeating a proposal widely seen as the Democrats' best near-term chance to change President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy.