US will stick with Iraq whoever wins presidency: congressional delegation
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A US congressional delegation met with Iraqi President Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar renewing America's commitment to the country's transition process no matter what the outcome of the November vote is back home.
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On the deadliest day of the Iraq war this year, President Bush told newly empowered House Democrats there are limits to how long the United States will stay committed to the bloody conflict.
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President Bush has asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stay on in Bush&#39;s second term to keep running the Iraq war and adapting the US military to face post-Cold
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told a joint session of the US Congress that elections would be held in Iraq as scheduled in January, and that despite a tough struggle &quot;we are succeeding.&quot;
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In a report considered crucial to U.S. strategy in the highly unpopular war in Iraq, the top U.S. commander there is expected to tell Congress on Monday that U.S. troop levels should not be cut deeply.
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As Iraqis prepare for a democratic vote, the U.S. is still struggling to prevent insurgents from destroying it
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned skeptical senators on Thursday against an unconditional withdrawal of American troops but was told, in the words of one influential Democrat, "We ain't staying."
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Neither President Bush nor the Republican-led Congress can extract the United States from a bloody quagmire of their own making in Iraq, said a former Republican who is seeking a Senate seat in Virginia.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 22  - Iraq and its neighbours on Monday threw their weight behind elections seen as crucial to the future of the violence-wracked country, at the opening of an international conference that was to put the United States at
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PRESIDENT (11) &#151; Bush victory keeps GOP streak intact &#151; Lyndon Johnson last Democrat to win here.
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Iraqâs ambassador to the United States backs the Petraeus plan, calls for Iran to âstop interferingâ in his countryâs affairsâand expects a continued American presence there for a long time to come.
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A top US military official in charge of the Middle East says coalition forces will do all they can to ensure Iraqi elections set for late January will go ahead.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy.
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Having won a two-month reprieve from Congress to demonstrate progress in Iraq, the White House does not intend to give up on trying to forge a grand political bargain among Iraq's sectarian leaders, even though such a deal has proved elusive since the 2003 invasion, administration officials said.
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The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.
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The US House of Representatives is to vote on a resolution opposing President George W. Bush's decision to deploy more troops to Iraq, the first major repudiation of the increasingly unpopular war.
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US President George W. Bush and Australia&#39;s John Howard vowed Wednesday to stand firm on Iraq in a strong defence of their strategy to contain violence in the war-torn country.