Bush calls for more time on Iraq
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President Bush says he understands US upset on Iraq but says Congress must allow time for the "surge" to work.
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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 George W. Bush, facing Democratic pressure to begin pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, urged Congress on Friday to wait for a crucial assessment of his strategy before making any judgments about the war.
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President Bush urged Iraqis to defy terrorists and vote in Sunday's election and sought patience from anxious Americans as a Marine helicopter crash pushed the U.S. death toll above 1,400.
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President Bush asked Congress to wait until September to pass judgment on a future military presence in Iraq.
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Just seven weeks before Election Day, President Bush addresses the United Nations on Tuesday seeking the international community&#39;s help in Iraq for the third time in two years.
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President Bush encouraged Iraq's  interim leaders on Monday to ensure minority Sunni Arabs are  included in Iraq's political process and the White House  brushed aside Democratic calls for a timetable for U.S. troops  to begin withdrawing.
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President George W. Bush sought on Wednesday to rally support for the war in Iraq, appealing to Americans on Independence Day for "more patience, more courage and more sacrifice".
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_ President Bush insists it&#39;s not a waste of time to try to promote freedom in places like Iraq and other parts of the Middle East.
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President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new strategy for Iraq until the new year, aides said on Tuesday amid new polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.
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President Bush aims to inspire patience with the war Tuesday by arguing that the fight against extremists in Iraq is crucial to U.S. security and the future of a strategic, struggling region.
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President Bush engaged in another round of telephone diplomacy Wednesday, calling allies to drum up support for the new government being created in Iraq following last weekend's elections.
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President Bush is going on the offensive against growing Republican defections against his war strategy in Iraq. He scheduled a news conference Thursday to urge Congress to give his plan time to work.
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President Bush, reminding listeners of his surprise trip to Baghdad, said Saturday it was important for the Iraqi people to know after three years of war that &quot;America will not abandon them after we have come this far.&quot;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 19 -- President Bush pushed back hard this afternoon against pressure from GOP ranks to outline a new strategy on Iraq, urging lawmakers to hold their fire until the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, makes a progress report in September.
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President Bush said Thursday that  elections in Iraq should not be postponed and a 12,000-troop  increase in the U.S. presence there was aimed at bolstering  security before January elections.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday acknowledged the need for "concerted efforts" to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after a panel on the Iraq war urged revived U.S. diplomacy to defuse broader regional tensions.