Bush thought Saddam was prepared to flee: report
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Saddam Hussein was prepared to take $1 billion and go into exile before the Iraq war, according to a transcript of talks between U.S. President George W. Bush and an ally, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Wednesday.
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President Bush says Iraqi leaders  chosen in next week's election will probably want U.S. troops  to stay, but the forces will be pulled out if the new  government asks, The New York Times reported on Friday.
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President Bush said today that he had ordered the declassification of key parts of a major intelligence report that reportedly found that the Iraq war has helped produce Islamic radicals.
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U.S. intelligence officials prepared a  report for President Bush in late July presenting a gloomy  outlook for Iraq, saying that at worst the country might  descend into civil war, The New York Times said on Thursday.
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On Aug. 13, 2002, the CIA completed a classified, six-page intelligence analysis that described the worst scenarios that could arise after a U.S.-led removal of Saddam Hussein: anarchy and territorial breakup in Iraq, a surge of global terrorism, and a deepening of Islamic antipathy toward the...
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President Bush said a provision that could expose Iraq to legal claims dating to Saddam Husseinâs rule was at issue.
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President Bush today said he has grudgingly ordered declassification of parts of a leaked intelligence report that concludes that the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has fueled Islamic extremism and contributed to the spread of terrorist cells.
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President Bush launched an all-out attack on Democrat John Kerry on Wednesday for what he called a "strategy of retreat" and said the Iraq war was justified because Saddam Hussein could have passed information --- if not weapons - to terrorists.
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President Bush said on Thursday a new strategy was required in Iraq but he would await further reviews beyond the scathing Iraq Study Group report before determining a new way forward.
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President Bush says the U.S. military will pull out of Iraq "as quickly as possible," but he is not endorsing Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that troops could begin returning home this year.
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President Bush on Saturday hit back at critics who have cited an intelligence report as evidence that the Iraq war has worsened the terrorism threat.
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President Bush said on Thursday a new strategy was required in Iraq that could include contacts with Iran and Syria and U.S. troop cuts, but he would await further reviews beyond the scathing Iraq Study Group report before determining a new way forward.
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The latest report on Iraq's prewar weapons capacity produced a fiery exchange between President Bush and John F. Kerry on Thursday, with Bush asserting the report showed that Saddam Hussein was a danger even in the absence of weapons of mass destruction and Kerry charging that Bush had inflated the threat and was blind to evidence proving the war was a mistake.
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President George W. Bush said on   Tuesday a secret intelligence report that concluded the Iraq   war had spread Islamic extremism would be made public and   accused opponents of leaking it for political purposes.
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President Bush and other senior administration officials yesterday defended their decision to invade Iraq despite errors in prewar intelligence, echoing findings in a draft report by the top
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Bush administration officials, in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, gave a one-sided view of the case for believing Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arms program that ignored the doubts of their own experts, the New York Times said on Saturday.
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President Bush today said he would declassify an intelligence document that reportedly finds that the Iraq war increased the terrorist threat to the United States, saying the American people should come to their own conclusions. The president said the media accounts of the report "create confusion in the minds" of Americans and suggested that the report had been leaked for political purposes.