Defiant Bush defends war in UN
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New York, Sept.23. (Guardian News Service): President George Bush on Tuesday delivered an unrepentant speech to the United Nations defending the war in Iraq and calling on the world to help rebuild the country.
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President Bush went before a skeptical hall of world leaders Tuesday to mount a vigorous defense of the war in Iraq, telling the United Nations that the Iraqi people are
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UNITED NATIONS - President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the country's struggling government and said the proper response to spreading violence "is not to retreat, it is to prevail."   The country's prime minister, Ayad Allawi, offered an upbeat assessment after Bush's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying, "We are winning, we are making progress in Iraq, we are defeating terrorists," even as insurgents claimed they had killed a second American hostage in two days.    Of the brutal slayings, Bush said, "We will not allow these thugs and terrorists to decide your fate and to decide our fate."   Yet in a sign of continuing world unease with the situation, U.N...
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UNITED NATIONS -- President Bush stood before an annual gathering of world leaders yesterday and forcefully defended his decision to invade Iraq, urging all nations to join the United States in rooting out terrorism and establishing democracy in place of oppressive regimes.
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President Bush on Thursday declined to endorse a Republican senator&#39;s call for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign but did not offer Annan any words of support.
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President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the country's struggling government and said the proper response to spreading violence "is not to retreat, it is to prevail."
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UNITED NATIONS -- Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and China rallied around UN Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday, but President Bush refused to explicitly endorse the UN chief under fire over suspected corruption in an Iraqi-oil sales program.
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President Bush, speaking  to House of Representatives Democrats he has battled for six  years, said on Saturday he welcomed a vigorous debate on his  plan to increase U.S. combat troops in Iraq and he did not  question the patriotism of critics.
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President Bush defended his plans for missile defenses, arguing that Iran posed a threat to some NATO allies.
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US President W Bush defends his decision not to intervene in Darfur's "genocide", in a BBC interview.
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President Bush accused Democrat John Kerry on Monday of &quot;new contradictions of his old positions on Iraq&quot; and defended the US-led invasion a day before addressing skeptical world leaders at the United Nations.
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President Bush strongly defended Israel&#039;s attacks in Lebanon on Thursday but worried they could weaken or topple the fragile government in Beirut. The Mideast violence exposed divisions between the United States and allies and raised fears of a widening war.
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Two years after warning the United Nations to act against Iraq or risk irrelevancy, President Bush on Tuesday defended the US-led invasion and urged skeptical world
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UNITED NATIONS (CP) - An unapologetic President George W. Bush, who threw the United Nations into angry upheaval last year by attacking Iraq without its approval, returned Tuesday to ask for more help in the chaotic country.
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President George W. Bush joined a chorus of US-allied leaders in defending the Iraq war from UN chief Kofi Annan's charge that it was illegal.
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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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MARK COLVIN: The United States President, George Bush, has been defending his invasion of Iraq before the UN General Assembly. The President, who&#39;s been making speeches recently to wildly cheering supporters