Bush appeals for patience over war
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President George W. Bush sought on Wednesday to rally support for the war in Iraq, appealing to Americans on Independence Day for "more patience, more courage and more sacrifice".
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President George W. Bush, faced with growing calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, pleaded with Americans on Saturday for patience and cited progress in the past two months.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush appealed to Congress on Saturday to give him real cash for the war, not just a pledge to fund the troops.
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President Bush was set Thursday to ask the country for more time to let success bloom in Iraq as his administration saluted a Sunni sheik assassinated after challenging al-Qaida's presence in Anbar province.
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President Bush, eager to show he can take advice on Iraq, embarked on a round of public outreach Monday and promised Americans the unpopular war eventually would make their lives safer.
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President Bush pleaded for Americans' patience Wednesday on what he conceded was "a very discouraging day" of death and violence for U.S. troops in Iraq. He urged Iraqis to defy terrorist threats and vote in Sunday's elections.
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CLEVELAND, July 10 -- President Bush pushed back Tuesday against demands from Republican lawmakers to outline a new war strategy, urging them to hold their fire until Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, delivers a progress report in September.
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Standing before thousands of Marines, President Bush asked other Americans on Tuesday to make the war their own by helping battle-weary troops and their families.
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President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new strategy for Iraq until the new year, the White House said on Tuesday amid polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.
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Seeking to buck up troops amid signs of growing impatience with extended tours of duty, President Bush told Marines yesterday to expect
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President Bush asked Congress to wait until September to pass judgment on a future military presence in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's most feared terrorist leader urged his followers yesterday to be patient and prepare for a long struggle against the Americans, promising in an audiotape posted on the Internet that ''ferocious wars . . . take their time" but victory was assured.
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President Bush urged Iraqis to defy terrorists and vote in Sunday's election and sought patience from anxious Americans as a Marine helicopter crash pushed the U.S. death toll above 1,400.
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President Bush forced Congress to back down from deadlines for troop withdrawals from Iraq. On Thursday, he scheduled a news conference to talk about the unpopular war and the relentless violence.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Iraqis to defy insurgents and vote in Sunday's elections and he  lowered expectations for the turnout amid violence that claimed  the lives of 36 U.S. troops.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush vowed yesterday to make a sustained military and political effort to beat back resurgent Taliban forces as he turned his attention to Afghanistan and a conflict that has been overshadowed for the past couple of years by the larger war in Iraq.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.  - President Bush sought on  Tuesday to boost the morale of U.S. troops facing extended  deployments in Iraq, but acknowledged mixed results so far in  training Iraqi forces to replace them.