Bush agrees to limited Iraq troop cuts
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President George W. Bush on Thursday will endorse a limited withdrawal of about 20,000 troops from Iraq by July but will offer little else to skeptical Americans looking for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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The top U.S. general in Iraq on Monday recommended cutting U.S. troops by about 30,000 by next summer, ending the U.S. "surge" of forces as expected but not fundamentally changing strategy in the unpopular war.
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President Bush has taken the most dramatic options off the table as he tries to change direction in Iraq, leaving him with a list of modest military and diplomatic moves to announce in the new year.
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After months of stubbornly refusing even to consider cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq, President George W. Bush has suddenly decided the idea is no longer taboo.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq has   drafted a plan that projects steep reductions in the U.S.   military presence there by the end of 2007, The New York Times   reported on Saturday.
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President Bush will tell the nation Thursday evening that he plans to reduce the American troop presence in Iraq by as many as 30,000 by next summer but will condition those and further cuts on continued progress, The Associated Press has learned.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s administration Wednesday beat off the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit numbers of troops ready for deployment.
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President Bush is expected to  announce on Monday the withdrawal of about 70,000 troops from  Europe and Asia in a major realignment of the U.S. military  presence to better fight the war on terrorism.
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The Iraqi president welcomes Tony Blair's plans to cut UK troops in Iraq from 7,100 to 5,000 within months.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday defended his plan for limited U.S. troop cuts in Iraq and denounced Democrats for not taking a stronger stand against an anti-war group's attack on the credibility of his top Iraq commander.
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President Bush said on Wednesday  that he saw no need right now to bolster U.S. troop levels in  Iraq and that the U.S.-led offensive in Falluja was going well.
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. House  of Representatives have tentatively settled on a timetable and  conditions for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, which they  hope to attach to a $100 billion Iraq war spending bill, senior  lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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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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The United States and Britain have privately agreed on a way of withdrawing their troops from Iraq, according to a report.
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A US senator belonging to President George W. Bush&#39;s Republican Party said Sunday he and other members of Congress expect the number of US troops in Iraq to be reduced after September.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday he backed a brief pause in U.S. troop cuts in Iraq once an initial pullout of five combat brigades has been completed in July.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday said 5,700 U.S. troops would come home from Iraq by the end of this year, followed by a gradual pullback through July 2008.