Warner's Iraq Remarks Surprise White House
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The G.O.P. senator has created a delicate situation for the White House just one month before the election.
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Senate Democrats, including several prospective presidential candidates, charged Thursday that the Bush administration&#039;s optimistic assessments on Iraq are not borne out by events on the ground.
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GOP Sen. John Warner, who wants U.S. troops to start coming home from Iraq by Christmas, said Sunday he may support Democratic legislation ordering withdrawals if President Bush refuses to set a return timetable soon.
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The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning. An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion.
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President Bush took advantage of a vacationing Congress, a surprise visit to once-restive Anbar province and supportive words from Australia's prime minister to trumpet his claims of progress in Iraq. Now he must press his case to skeptical lawmakers and a war-weary U.S. public.
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WASHINGTON - Senators from both parties urged the Bush administration on Sunday to make a realistic assessment of the situation in Iraq and adjust its policies aimed at pacifying the country. But Bush readied a firm defense of his Iraq policy - and a sharp new attack on rival John Kerry's stance - for a speech Monday...
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The secretary of state's assertion to the president and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last month indicates that there was a tough debate behind closed doors as the Bush administration reexamined its handling of Iraq in the wake of the president's reelection victory.
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The White House insisted that President Bush had not meant to single out the advertisement run by veterans opposed to John Kerry.
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HUNTINGTON, WV The White House says it doesn&#39;t know if new memos about President Bush&#39;s National Guard service are genuine.
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Reaction to Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's speech Thursday to a joint meeting of Congress:
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Ryan C. Crockerâs comments appeared to be part of a new White House effort to prepare the public for a long stay in Iraq.
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epublicans quickly seized on today&#39;s Congressional address by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq as irrefutable evidence that the invasion of his country was justified and that Bush administration
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John Warner is trying to broker a compromise resolution critical of the Iraq surge. But can the Republican senator stand up under White House pressure?
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On Scene: As Bush prepares for a much-anticipated meeting with his counterpart in Baghdad, the White House wants to make clear that James Baker is not calling the shots
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The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.
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The White House went on the offensive yesterday against a new book that reports President Bush resisted demands to boost U.S. troop numbers in Iraq and misled Americans about the level of violence there.
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WASHINGTON - The White House staunchly defended its Iraq policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush's prewar decisions and postwar planning. An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion...