Bush Extols Iraq Plan as UN Diplomats Seek Changes
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President George W. Bush, in his fourth annual address to the United Nations, equated the US battle with insurgents in Iraq with his approach to the global fight against terrorism.
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President George W. Bush, under pressure to change strategy in Iraq, meets Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday after making clear he does not support calls for U.S. talks with Iran or withdrawing American troops.
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President Bush defended his decision to go to war in Iraq in a speech on Tuesday to the United Nations, urging the world community to turn its attention to the fighting the war on terrorism and humanitarian concerns.
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UNITED NATIONS - President Bush unapologetically defended his decision to invade Iraq and asked skeptical world leaders on Tuesday to do more to help secure and rebuild the country.
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US President George W. Bush rebuffed key recommendations from the Iraq Study Group but announced a new Middle East peace push after talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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US President George W. Bush defiantly told the United Nations that the war in Iraq was justified and demanded more UN action to help end the deadly chaos that has followed the US-led invasion.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States agreed yesterday to join high-level talks with Iran and Syria on the future of Iraq, an abrupt shift in policy that opens the door to diplomatic dealings the White House had shunned in recent months despite mounting criticism.
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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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UNITED NATIONS  - US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan were set to trade barbs on the opening day of the two-week session of the UN General Assembly, with the aftershocks of the Iraq war still at the top of the
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Two years after he made a case  against Iraq over unconventional weapons that were never found,  President Bush faces global critics at the United Nations this  week to argue it is essential that war-ravaged Iraq become a  stable democracy.
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A senior Iraqi Shiite leader who is meeting President Bush next week on Saturday rejected a suggestion by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to hold an international conference on Iraq.
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The White House signaled resistance on Friday to any attempt by the U.S. Senate to revise the 2002 resolution that President George W. Bush used to go to war in Iraq with a document that would narrow the mission there and lead to U.S. troop withdrawals.
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President Bush vowed on Thursday to adopt a new strategy for Iraq and outline it in a major speech soon as he made his first substantive response to a bipartisan panel's finding his Iraq policy has failed and time is running out for changing course.
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The Bush administration will seek a range of views beyond the report by the American commander in Iraq.
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President Bush defended the US decision to invade Iraq in a United Nations General Assembly address Tuesday in which he also urged the world community to fight terrorism and promote democracy.
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan took a fresh jab at US President George W Bush on Tuesday, in a clear sign that world opinion was still far from making peace with the war in Iraq.
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Under pressure to start withdrawing U.S. troops, the Bush administration wants the United Nations to play an expanded role in Iraq as a mediator both internally and with neighboring countries.