Iraq&#39;s grim spiral: Bush refuses to acknowledge dire situation
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Some days it&#39;s hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.
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President Bush forced Congress to back down from deadlines for troop withdrawals from Iraq. On Thursday, he scheduled a news conference to talk about the unpopular war and the relentless violence.
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US President George W. Bush refused to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq following the creation of its new government, saying &amp;quot;we will keep the force level there necessary to win&amp;quot;.
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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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President Bush is expected to hear deep concerns Friday from top Pentagon generals about continuing the military buildup in Iraq, as yet another grim independent report emerges finding lack of progress in the conflict.
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President Bush on Saturday challenged "misimpressions" about the Iraq war as he battled a gloomy intelligence assessment of the conflict and the fallout of a book portraying him as in denial over it.
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PRESIDENT BUSH admitted yesterday that the murderous bombing campaign by fighters in Iraq was âhaving an effectâ and that US-trained Iraqi troops were nowhere near ready to take over the countryâs security.
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Iraq, once thought to be a political albatross for President George W. Bush, is turning out to be more of a headache for his Democratic rival John Kerry despite the continuing turmoil and mounting US death toll.
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Faced with a harshly critical new report, President Bush conceded Thursday that Iraq did not have the stockpiles of banned weapons he had warned of before the invasion last
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President Bush said Monday the Iraq war is "straining the psyche of our country" but leaving now would be a disaster.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control of the violence.
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Two recent assessments warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation if the level of violence continues unchecked.
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President Bush on Monday embraced the new leadership in Iraq as a turning point in the war but claimed only gradual progress in years of fighting and acknowledged that Americans are uneasy about the outcome.
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One year after the capture of Saddam Hussein, the United States seems as far as ever from fulfilling George Bush&#39;s promise to stabilise the country.
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Negative assessments of the war in Iraq -- the central issue in last month's midterm election -- continue to hold down President Bush's job approval ratings and could cast an pall on the final two years of his presidency.
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ELECTIONS IN IRAQ: At a news conference, President Bush urged Iraqis to defy terrorists and vote in Sunday's election. He also sought patience from anxious Americans as a Marine helicopter crash pushed the U.S. death toll above 1,400.