Bush Adamant on Iraq Election Schedule
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Bush Rejects Calls From More Than a Dozen Political Parties in Iraq to Postpone Jan. 30 Elections. US President Bush delivers his foreign policy speech at Pier 21, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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President Bush defended the Iraq  war before skeptical world leaders on Tuesday, called on them  to help Iraq develop into a democracy and vowed not to retreat  against an insurgency that threatens more violence in the  country.
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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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President Bush spoke by telephone Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to reaffirm the importance of holding the Jan. 30 elections in that country, the White House said.
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President Bush and interim Iraqi  President Ghazi al-Yawar vowed on Monday to press ahead with  Jan. 30 elections in Iraq despite a surge in violence that has  killed more than 70 people in recent days.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister declared Sunday that January elections would be held on schedule and asserted that American and Iraqi government troops were winning the war against an increasingly bold insurgency.
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President Bush pledged on Friday that  the U.S. military would do everything possible to safeguard  Iraq's Jan. 30 election but acknowledged that a fierce  insurgency could disrupt voting in key parts of the country.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush cautioned yesterday that Iraq's elections will not put an end to terrorist violence, but insisted the vote will mark the beginning of peace, stability, prosperity, and justice for the troubled country.
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Despite a new call Friday for a postponement of the Iraqi elections, President Bush said he hopes they still go forward. Seventeen political parties say the election should be put off for at least six months
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President Bush joined the interim president of Iraq yesterday in insisting that Iraqi elections be held Jan. 30, saying that keeping to the election
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President Bush said on Thursday that  he and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi would "stay the course"  in Iraq and insisted national elections will be held there in  January despite a worsening insurgency.
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President Bush said Tuesday's deadly attack on a U.S. military base in Iraq should not derail elections scheduled for next month and he hoped relatives of those killed would find solace in the service their loved ones provided.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Iraqis to defy insurgents by voting in Sunday's elections and  said Americans who see the violence as "very discouraging"  should focus on long-term U.S. goals in the region.
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WASHINGTON - There are two presidential races going on: One here, one in Iraq. George Bush has to convince voters he isn&#39;t losing the second to be sure of winning the first.
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President Bush rejected calls for a delay in next month's Iraqi elections, insisting Thursday that the vote was too important to put off even though violence and chaos still grip much of the country.
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President Bush says violence in Iraq and Afghanistan may increase ahead of elections there, but vows to persevere.
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The elections in Iraq will set an example of democracy for the rest of the Middle East, President Bush said Friday.