At UN, Bush defends decision to invade Iraq
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President Bush went before a skeptical hall of world leaders Tuesday to mount a vigorous defense of the war in Iraq, telling the United Nations that the Iraqi people are
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Leading allies of the United States defended the legal basis for the US-led invasion of Iraq and their involvement there after UN chief Kofi Annan reignited the debate over its legitimacy.
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WASHINGTON - Two years after he made a case against Iraq over unconventional weapons that were never found, US President George W. Bush faces global critics at the United Nations this week to argue it is essential that war-ravaged Iraq become a stable
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President George W. Bush, confronted by antiwar protesters in Canada, defended his decision to invade Iraq and said the US would always act against threats even if opposed by other nations.
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Two years after warning the  United Nations to act against Iraq or risk irrelevancy,  President Bush on Tuesday defended the U.S.-led invasion and  urged skeptical world leaders to help Iraq become a democracy  in the face of a deadly insurgency.
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President Bush defended his decision to go to war in Iraq in a speech on Tuesday to the United Nations, urging the world community to turn its attention to the fighting the war on terrorism and humanitarian concerns.
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WASHINGTON Under continuing fire for his Iraq policies, President George W. Bush defended his approach Tuesday in firm and unapologetic tones, telling international dignitaries at the United Nations that ââthe proper response to difficulty is not to
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ST. LOUIS - In a debate rematch Friday, President Bush defended his invasion of Iraq and said "I wasn't happy when we found there weren't weapons" that prompted his administration to go to war against Saddam Hussein...
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US President George W Bush is expected to defend his Middle East policy at the UN General Assembly.
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President George W. Bush has defended the invasion of Iraq despite a new report rejecting. Thursday ratcheted up the political fight over Iraq
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President Bush's ambassador to  the United Nations defended the world body on Wednesday, after  California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the United States,  not the U.N., was best for democracy.
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President Bush stressed the importance of spreading freedom in the world and defended his decision to invade Iraq in a speech Tuesday to the UN General Assembly.
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UNITED NATIONS - President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the country's struggling government and said the proper response to spreading violence "is not to retreat, it is to prevail."   The country's prime minister, Ayad Allawi, offered an upbeat assessment after Bush's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying, "We are winning, we are making progress in Iraq, we are defeating terrorists," even as insurgents claimed they had killed a second American hostage in two days.    Of the brutal slayings, Bush said, "We will not allow these thugs and terrorists to decide your fate and to decide our fate."   Yet in a sign of continuing world unease with the situation, U.N...
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President Bush delivered an unapologetic defense of his decision to invade Iraq, telling the United Nations Tuesday that it "helped to deliver the Iraqi people from an outlaw dictator." Later, Bush condemned the beheading of a U.S. hostage by an Islamic militant.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who recently angered the United States by calling the war in Iraq &quot;illegal,&quot; has weighed in again with a letter to President Bush, British Prime Minister
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President Bush said today that he was right to order the invasion of Iraq last year despite a new report by his chief U.S. weapons inspector that shows the country did not possess the weapons of mass destruction that were the original rationale for the war.
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President Bush hailed the controversial move, as the EU and UN met to form their responses.