Bush holds "war council" with top aides in Iraq
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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq  - President George W. Bush held a "council of war" with his security team at a desert air base in western Iraq on Monday, a week before testimony to Congress that could influence policy on the war.
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President Bush and his top aides have signaled in recent days that they are beginning to look more closely at a "post-surge" strategy that would involve a smaller U.S. troop presence in Iraq and a mission focused on fighting al-Qaeda and training the Iraqi army.
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The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to U.S. officials familiar with the intense debate.
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President Bush reaches out to allies this week for help in quelling violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a burst of diplomacy from a Baltic summit of NATO partners to Mideast talks with Iraq's prime minister.
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Envoys from the West and Islamic nations &#151; including Iran, Syria and the United States &#151; are expected to attend a conference next month on efforts to stabilize Iraq, a diplomatic adviser said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - The National Intelligence Council presented President Bush this summer with three pessimistic scenarios regarding the security situation in Iraq, including the possibility of a civil war there before the end of 2005.    In a highly classified National Intelligence Estimate, the council looked at the political, economic and security situation in the wartorn country and determined that - at best - a tenuous stability was possible, a U.S...
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President Bush meets today with a top Iraqi Shiite leader in what could be a key week in the reshaping of U.S. policy toward the conflict in Iraq -- with hearings beginning Tuesday on the confirmation of Defense Secretary nominee Robert M. Gates, a bipartisan panel scheduled to release its...
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President Bush turned Saturday from Mideast peacemaking to the Iraq war, hearing from his top advisers in the theater as he looks toward a new assessment that will be closely watched for whether more American troops can start coming home.
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The chairmen of the Iraq Study Group on Sunday defended their report as a "responsible way" out of the war, while President George W. Bush prepares to unveil his new strategy later this month.
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President Bush and his top aides are striving to portray Mr. Bush as he appeared before Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
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President Bush encouraged Iraq's  interim leaders on Monday to ensure minority Sunni Arabs are  included in Iraq's political process and the White House  brushed aside Democratic calls for a timetable for U.S. troops  to begin withdrawing.
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America's top lawyer met Wednesday with the head of Iraq's judicial council during a quick trip to Baghdad to review U.S. efforts to help build the nation's legal system.
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As violence in Iraq crescendoed last year, President Bush summoned his secretaries of agriculture, commerce and energy to Camp David in June to meet with his national security team. During a two-hour afternoon discussion in the main lodge, the president urged the three secretaries to become more...
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President Bush meets with Iraqi interim President Ghazi al-Yawar, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
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The world&#39;s top diplomats joined officials of Iraq and its neighbors Tuesday to open a conference to discuss the future of the war-torn country.
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President Bush is stepping into Iraq's political divide, meeting with a top Shiite power broker at the White House next week and with the nation's Sunni vice president in January.
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AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq  - President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday in a bid to seize the upper hand in a looming showdown with congressional war critics pressing him to begin a troop withdrawal.