White House backs Rumsfeld, denies charges on Iraq
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President Bush has confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, despite accusations that he botched the Iraq war and earlier efforts by top Bush aides to replace him, the White House said on Sunday.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday he will stay on in his job in the second term of the Bush administration. &quot;The election&#39;s over and the president asked me if I would be
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said  on Monday he had agreed to stay in his job and hoped U.S.  troops would be pulled out of Iraq during the Bush  administration's second four-year term.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday he knew of no &quot;strong, hard evidence&quot; linking Saddam Hussein&#39;s Iraq and al Qaeda, despite describing extensive contacts between the two before the Iraq invasion.
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US President George W Bush expresses support for his embattled Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld _ scarred by postwar violence and prison scandal in Iraq _ accepted President Bush&#39;s request that he remain for the second-term Cabinet.
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Accused of being insensitive to U.S. soldiers in Iraq and their families, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld received a fresh endorsement Monday from President Bush, who called him "a caring fellow."
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President Bush strongly defended Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday, declaring that the Pentagon chief is doing &quot;a really fine job&quot; and that any suggestions that he is insensitive are simply wrong.
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The United States on Wednesday reiterated American support for the Iraqi interim government headed by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. The US supports Allawi and his government&#39;s
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The Bush administration defends its partial release of a report linking the Iraq conflict to global terrorism.
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NEW YORK - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today there is no &quot;hard evidence&quot; linking deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda.
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The US House of Representatives endorsed President George W. Bush&#039;s &amp;quot;war on terror&amp;quot; strategy, after refusing to set a deadline on US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 17  - For the third time this week, the White House on Friday expressed support for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the face of criticisms from several prominent Republicans.
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FORT MYERS, Florida  - The Iraq war reclaimed the spotlight in the Republican race for the White House on Saturday as front-runner John McCain accused rival Mitt Romney of backing a set withdrawal of U.S. troops -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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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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US President George W. Bush expressed on Monday confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has been under increasing criticism for his handlingof Iraq from lawmakers.