Can Bush Find "A Way Forward" for Iraq?
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The administration is eager to show that it is not just waiting for the findings of the Baker commission to come up with a new strategy for Iraq -- and it will reveal its own new plan in the next several weeks
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As he prepares to provide Congress and the nation a progress report on Iraq this week, President Bush has sought to reframe the domestic political battle over the war, putting himself in a position to do something his critics have long advocated: Begin drawing down the huge U.S. troop presence.
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Bush has no plans to add troops in Iraq, but questions persist about whether the US force has been big enough.
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President Bush pledged on Saturday to seek bipartisan consensus on the way forward in Iraq, as he awaited a panel's recommendations on how to shift course in the unpopular war.
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As President Bush mulls what to do after winning re-election, voters say his first priority should be resolving the situation in Iraq, where the fighting is growing more intense. They also want Bush to cut the deficit, which ballooned under his watch, rather than pushing for more tax cuts, according to an Associated Press poll taken right after the election.
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President Bush said today he has rejected "some ideas that would lead to defeat" as he considers a new Iraq strategy, and he vowed not to be "rushed" into a decision.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush pledged yesterday to seek bipartisan consensus on the way forward in Iraq, as he awaited a panel's recommendations on how to shift course in the unpopular war.
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Will he have the political capital to tackle his agenda while Iraq demands his attention?
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John Kerry&#39;s escalating criticism of George W. Bush&#39;s policy in Iraq raises a question fundamental to democracy: How far can the opposition go in attacking the president in the midst of a war?
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Democrats said President Bush must be ready to cooperate with Congress in finding a way forward, and eventually out of, Iraq.
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Analysis: There's less difference than it may seem in how Republicans and Democrats want to manage Iraq
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President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring more U.S. troops home from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.
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Fortified by his victory at the polls, President George W. Bush now faces pressing, unfinished business in Iraq where US forces are poised to storm insurgent strongholds to clear the way for January elections.
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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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When he received his own copy of the Iraq Study Group report, President Bush praised the subtitle, "The way forward &#151; a new approach." On Thursday, it was clear he had added the phrase to his lexicon. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair used "forward" or "way forward" about two dozen times during their news conference about the war and problems in the Middle East.
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If the prime targets of President Bush's appeal for patience last night were moderates in his own party, his speech may have fallen flat.
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President Bush meets today with Tony Blair, his most important ally in the Iraq war, a day after the president received recommendations from the Iraq Study Group that included the withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops by early 2008. Bush's chief spokesman, meanwhile, told CNN the president may be able to "announce a new way forward" in Iraq by the end of the year.