Bush aide defends prewar assertions
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Washington -- National security adviser Condoleezza Rice defended on Sunday the emphatic statements she made in the run-up to the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program, as a news report said prominent officials had voiced
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A reassessment by the Central Intelligence Agency has cast doubt on a central piece of evidence used by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq to draw links
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - President Bush questioned  the authenticity of documents aired by CBS News that said he  received special treatment during his Vietnam-era service in  the National Guard, according to a Bush interview published on  Saturday.
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President Bush defended the Iraq  war before skeptical world leaders on Tuesday, called on them  to help post-Saddam Iraq develop into a democracy and vowed not  to retreat against an insurgency that threatens more violence  in the country.
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A former top White House official accused the Bush administration yesterday of trying to muzzle his criticism of its Iran policy and of falsely alleging  that his writings contained classified material to prevent them from being published.
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Joe Lockhart, a Democratic presidential campaign adviser, says he spoke to the man who provided CBS News with discredited documents about George W. Bush&#39;s service record before the television network aired the report.
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President Bush questioned the authenticity of documents aired by CBS News that said he received special treatment during his Vietnam-era service in the National Guard, according to a Bush interview published on Saturday.
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The White House emphasized doubts surrounding documents used in a recent CBS News report, claiming that US President George W. Bush had help in escaping Vietnam War duty.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - Many of President Bush's  assertions about progress in Iraq -- from police training and  reconstruction to preparations for January elections -- are in  dispute, according to internal Pentagon documents, lawmakers  and key congressional aides on Sunday.
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President George W. Bush's re-election campaign launched a preemptive defense against a complaint by Democratic challenger John Kerry that a group attacking Kerry's Vietnam war record had illegal ties to the Bush campaign.
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WASHINGTON - The White House has pounced on the disclosure that a CBS producer put the source of discredited documents about President George W. Bush&#39;s national guard service in touch with a senior adviser to Senator John Kerry.
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White House officials today found themselves explaining recent remarks by the former top American administrator in Iraq.
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Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended herself against a charge  that she put loyalty above truthfulness in making the Bush  administration's case for going to war against Iraq.
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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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Britain's Prince Andrew on Wednesday defended comments he made suggesting the United States might have been better off had its leaders learned from the British experience with colonialism before invading Iraq.
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THE Bush administration will push to rebuild relations with the ALP and has defended the Howard Government's refusal to provide extra troops to protect UN officials in Iraq ahead of elections due in January.
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The former U.S. administrator in Iraq on Tuesday defended American actions there &#151; a day after faulting troop strength following the ouster of Saddam Hussein.