Bush says he miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq
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President George W. Bush, in an interview with The New York Times, said he miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq and that the long insurgency was the product of a "swift victory."
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NEW YORK - John Kerry issued a scathing and pointed criticism Monday of President Bush&#39;s Iraq policies, saying Bush had repeatedly misled the American public and had compiled &quot;a long litany of misjudgments with terrible consequences.
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President Bush glossed over some complicating realities in Iraq, Afghanistan and the home front in arguing the case Americans are safer and his opponent cannot deliver.
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President Bush today lashed out at critics of his policies in Afghanistan and Iraq, denouncing predictions of impending failure in Afghanistan and complaining that some have "selectively quoted" from a classified intelligence assessment to argue that the war in Iraq is making Americans less secure.
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US President George W Bush admits for the first time miscalculating conditions in post-war Iraq.
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US President George W. Bush dismissed a gloomy CIA forecast for Iraq as guesswork and branded Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry's warnings about deadly chaos there as &quot;hardly credible.&quot;
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush took his critics to task yesterday for using the poor marks the Iraqi government received on a progress report this week as reason to argue that the war is lost.
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Many military officers and civilian officials say the Bush administration's miscalculations in Iraq cost the U.S. valuable momentum.
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President Bush on Tuesday said it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism, disputing a national intelligence assessment by his own administration. He said he was declassifying part of the report.
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Viewpoint: President Bush reaches into history in defense of the war. But he's at odds with the realities on the ground
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WASHINGTON - President Bush said for the first time on Thursday he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" after U.S. troops went to Iraq, The New York Times reported...
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Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said that President George W. Bush has committed multiple errors, beyond his admitted "miscalculation" on the war in Iraq.
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President George W. Bush reportedly said he miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq and that the long insurgency was the product of a "swift victory."
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A year after he ordered a large increase in American troops in Iraq, President Bush said that he was prepared to slow or even halt further reductions of forces there.
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President Bush acknowledged on  Thursday that prewar U.S. claims that Iraq had weapons of mass  destruction were wrong but insisted he had been right to invade  Iraq.
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Four years ago, during a speech in Manila, President Bush drew an analogy between the history of the Philippines and the history he was rewriting in Iraq.
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President Bush accused Democrat John Kerry on Monday of &quot;new contradictions of his old positions on Iraq&quot; and defended the US-led invasion a day before addressing skeptical world leaders at the United Nations.