Bush to announce new Iraq strategy next year
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President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new Iraq strategy until the new year, the White House said on Tuesday amid polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.
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President Bush has taken the most dramatic options off the table as he tries to change direction in Iraq, leaving him with a list of modest military and diplomatic moves to announce in the new year.
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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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A year after he ordered a large increase in American troops in Iraq, President Bush said that he was prepared to slow or even halt further reductions of forces there.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States may have to lower expectations for Iraq as it embarks on a new war plan, President Bush's choice to become the top US military commander for the Middle East said yesterday.
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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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President Bush is expected to speak about his desire for Iraq troops reductions, but offer no change in strategy yet.
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President Bush is due to lay out his vision for the next four years in a speech to the Republican convention.
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National security and the war in Iraq will be the centerpieces of the White HouseÂs strategy for helping Republicans in this yearÂs election.
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On the first day of his last year in the White House, President Bush returned to Washington with an ambitious agenda for 2008, including tackling the mortgage lending crisis and securing more money from Congress for Iraq.
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President Bush knows the general direction he wants to move U.S. policy on Iraq but won't announce it until next month, the White House said Tuesday. Military commanders were recommending more U.S. advisers and equipment for Iraqi forces, said a defense specialist.
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As pressure mounts for a change of course in Iraq, the Bush administration is groping for a viable new strategy for the president to unveil by Christmas, with deliberations now focused on three main options to redefine the U.S. military and political engagement, according to officials familiar with...
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The U.S. military is weighing new directions for Iraq, including an even bigger troop buildup if President Bush thinks his "surge" strategy needs a further boost, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday.
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President Bush said in remarks prepared for his State of the Union speech on Wednesday night that the United States will open a "new phase" in post-election Iraq increasingly focused on training Iraqi security forces.
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US President George W Bush concedes a "new approach" is needed in Iraq, after the release of a damning report.
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What Bush's surprise visit to Iraq tells us about Petraeus's upcoming report to Congress
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President George W. Bush is expected on Monday to estimate the costs for the Iraq war at nearly $300 billion over the next 2 1/2 years and propose limiting domestic spending for fiscal year 2008.