As Sunnis Waver, White House Renews Backing for Iraqi Vote
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The Bush administration called again today for wide participation in the Iraqi elections of Jan. 30, and it expressed cautious optimism that security would be strong enough to assure valid results.
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Iraq&#39;s elections were thrown into renewed doubt only days after the interim government won international backing for its decision to hold the poll at the end of January.
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US Senate foes of President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy are making a new attempt to hold a symbolic censure vote, one day after the president's plan to increase US troop strength in Iraq was repudiated by the House.
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WASHINGTON - The White House refused to say Tuesday whether the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster had asked the president for more troops to deal with the rapid descent of postwar Iraq into chaos...
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Iraq's Jan. 30 elections are likely  to be "less than perfect" due to violence but the United States  is working with Iraq to encourage the broadest possible  participation, the White House said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, worried that a Sunni Muslim boycott could turn Iraq&#39;s Jan. 30 election into a fiasco, has launched a major diplomatic and political campaign to encourage Sunnis to vote
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US President George W. Bush and Iraqi interim President Ghazi al-Yawar, have re-stated their firm commitment to holding elections on January 30, despite an upsurge in violence in Iraq.
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Even if Sunnis do not fare well in upcoming elections, the Bush administration is trying to guarantee them a set number of top jobs.
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The president's vote of confidence came after a turbulent weekend in Iraq and two public missteps by the secretary.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election. Talk of delaying the election gained momentum after influential Sunni Muslim politicians urged the
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The legitimacy of Iraqi election is likely to hinge on voter turnout by the Sunni minority.
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The Bush administration and GOP leaders on Thursday renewed their push for Senate approval of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador. Democrats maintained he is too brash and ineffective to be confirmed.
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The White House played down a House of Representatives vote on Iraq that is expected to yield US lawmakers' first major repudiation of the increasingly unpopular war.
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Embattled Sunni Muslims in Iraq may sit out the vote
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Iraq's election body rejected a suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month's vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi'ites win an exaggerated majority in the new assembly.
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The Bush administration has undertaken a campaign aimed at getting Sunnis to vote in next month&#39;s assembly elections and is ready to help
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Despite an overwhelming House vote last month to revive the Iraq Study Group, the White House has blocked reconvening the bipartisan panel to provide a second independent assessment of the military and political situation in Iraq, said several sources involved in the panel's December 2006 report.