Bush sidesteps talk of "civil war" in Iraq
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President Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al Qaeda lay behind the sectarian violence racking Iraq, and deflected talk of "civil war." Bush, who made his remarks in Estonia on his way to a NATO summit, has ...Comment
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, yesterday contradicted Tony Blair&#39;s claim that there was a new conflict inside Iraq and dismissed fears of a civil war.
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Not quite halfway into the debate on Thursday night, answering a question about the lessons of Iraq, President Bush repeated a line he uses so often on the campaign
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President Bush told an Iraqi power broker on Monday that the United States was not satisfied with the progress of efforts to stop the sharp escalation of violence in Iraq.
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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 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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The president refused to label the recent surge in killings in Iraq a civil war.
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NEW YORK - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday he does not expect civil war in Iraq and pointed to the recent retaking of the former insurgent stronghold of Samarra as evidence of progress in stabilizing the country before elections in January.   "I don't think it's going to happen," Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations when asked about the threat of civil war...
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TALLINN, Estonia Nov. 28--President Bush said Tuesday morning he will press Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a plan to contain the escalating sectarian violence, though he refused to characterize the situation in Iraq as a civil war.
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By Alastair Macdonald Baghdad - United States President George Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al-Qaeda lay behind the sectarian violence racking Iraq, and deflected talk of "civil war". Bush, who made his ...Comment
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After months of stubbornly refusing even to consider cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq, President George W. Bush has suddenly decided the idea is no longer taboo.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani disputed on Tuesday reports of growing violence in his country and declared, "I can assure you there will be no civil war."
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President Bush said the finding that Iraq had no illicit arms at the time of the invasion in no way undermined his decision to go to war.
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President Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al Qaeda lay behind sectarian violence racking Iraq, and he would not pull troops out "before the mission is complete".
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President Bush said on Tuesday he was considering a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq, but a spokesman denied reports of a rift with Pentagon chiefs said to oppose the idea.
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President George W. Bush has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq now, the White House said on Monday, despite increasing pressure from members of his own Republican party for a change in war strategy.
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President George W. Bush, standing on the sidelines of the 2008 race to replace him, says he will not be the "pundit-in-chief" offering opinions on those who want his job.