Bush considering Rumsfeld options on Iraq
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President George W. Bush is considering a "laundry list" of options for Iraq that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested before resigning and agrees progress has been too slow, a senior White House official said on Sunday.
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George Bush's choice to command US forces in the Mid-East calls for a new Iraq approach.
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President George W. Bush and close  ally British Prime Minister Tony Blair will consider the future  course in Iraq a day after a report said the current U.S.  military and diplomatic strategy was not working.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House two days before he resigned last month the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed a major change, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House two days before he resigned last month that the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed a major change, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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President Bush went to the Pentagon yesterday to hear firsthand the views of top military advisers concerned about the impact of extensive Iraq deployments on the overall health of the U.S. armed forces.
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President Bush said Saturday he wants to hear all advice before making decisions about changes in Iraq strategy, even as it was disclosed that Donald H. Rumsfeld called for major changes in tactics two days before he resigned as defense secretary.
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Denying he has painted too rosy a picture of Iraq, President Bush said Thursday he would consider sending more troops if asked, but Iraq's interim leader firmly said they weren't needed. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested parts of Iraq might have to be excluded from elections in January.
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President Bush is to discuss the situation in Iraq with its Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in Jordan next week.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States may have to lower expectations for Iraq as it embarks on a new war plan, President Bush's choice to become the top US military commander for the Middle East said yesterday.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's future has been in doubt amid spreading violence and U.S. deaths in Iraq. Whether he would remain in his job was one of the last big question marks about President Bush's second-term Cabinet.
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A debate is intensifying inside the White House over whether President George W. Bush should try to prevent more Republican defections by announcing intentions for a gradual withdrawal of troops from high-casualty Iraqi areas, the New York Times said on Monday.
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Kuwait City -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed hope Monday, but did not explicitly predict, that American troops would be out of Iraq by the end of President Bush&#39;s second term.
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President Bush on Wednesday consulted with Iraqi leaders for the fifth time in recent days about the Jan. 30 elections and the White House acknowledged the possibility that the newly elected government might seek a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. forces.
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WASHINGTON -- Two days before he resigned from the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent the White House a classified memo recommending "a major adjustment" in Iraq strategy and acknowledging slow progress there.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, coming under renewed fire for his management of the Iraq war, said Sunday he is not considering resigning and said the president had called him personally in recent days to express his continued support.
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President Bush defended Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war on Monday  and said training Iraqi police and army to take over  responsibility for the country's security from U.S. troops has  been difficult.