White House to Delay Shift on Iraq Until â07
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Officials suggested that the presidentâs advisers were locked in internal debates on several fronts about how to proceed in Iraq.
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The Bush administration is nearing the release of an interim report on 18 benchmarks for the Iraqi government, with fresh signs that some Republican senators are impatient with the White House plan for Iraq.
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Senator John Kerry's presidential team accused the Bush administration of delaying major US offensives in Iraq until after November's election.
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President Bush is weighing a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq, the White House said on Tuesday, as Bush reportedly acknowledged for the first time that America is not winning the war.
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President George W. Bush will issue a report as early as Thursday likely to show only limited progress by Iraq's government even as he scrambles to halt erosion of Republican support for an unpopular war.
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The Iraqi government is unlikely to meet any of the political and security goals or timelines President Bush set for it in January when he announced a major shift in U.S. policy, according to senior administration officials closely involved in the matter. As they prepare an interim report due next...
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US President George W. Bush is set to host British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House for talks likely to focus on a hard-hitting report that urged a strategic change in Iraq.
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In a highly anticipated report being released Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group will call for a dramatic shift in war policy by urging the Bush administration to set a target of moving most U.S. troops out of their combat roles by early 2008, according to two sources who have seen the executive summary of the report.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates backed away slightly yesterday from his Friday statement that U.S. troop levels in Iraq could go as low as 100,000 by the end of next year, and he signaled that the Bush administration would go into a wait-and-see mode on Iraq for another six months.
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President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. military is delaying the   departure of thousands of soldiers from Iraq while speeding the   arrival of thousands more as a way to keep more troops on the   ground to handle unrelenting violence, the Pentagon said on   Monday.
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Brushing aside criticism from the White House, Senate Democrats said Friday their next challenge to President Bush's Iraq war policy would require the gradual withdrawal of U.S. combat troops beginning within 120 days.
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On the eve of a trip to Central and South America, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday postponed his travel plans to help the White House assemble a progress report on the situation in Iraq.
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The Bush administration will seek a range of views beyond the report by the American commander in Iraq.
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BS News said yesterday that it had postponed a &quot;60 Minutes&quot; segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq.
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The Bush administration's lead  official on Iraq policy has told the White House he plans to  leave in the coming weeks, U.S. officials said on Saturday,  ahead of Iraq's planned elections.
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The US president plans to hold a delayed summit with the Iraqi premier aimed at tackling escalating violence.