McCain: Bush not straight enough on Iraq
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Several Republicans and Democrats took President Bush to task on Sunday&#39;s talk shows over his repeated assertions that all is well in Iraq.
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.  - President Bush suggested  on Wednesday that Democrat John Kerry's aggressive new attacks  on the White House's Iraq policy show that the Massachusetts  senator may not be up to the task of leading the broader war on  terrorism.
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Former President George H.W. Bush urged  disgruntled conservatives on Monday to rally around John  McCain, calling their criticism of the Republican presidential  front-runner "grossly unfair."
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Bloomberg - Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said Republican presidential candidate John McCain is ``absolutely'' a ``true conservative,'' and that the Arizona senator's principles are ``sound and solid.''
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That Ã¢ÂÂglass is half fullÃ¢ÂÂ outlook that John McCain asserts for the war in Iraq is how the Arizona senator needs the political world to view his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
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ST. LOUIS  - President Bush accused Sen. John  Kerry on Friday of being too inconsistent to lead the country  but Kerry shot back that the president was using that line of  attack to shift attention from his deceptions on Iraq.
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Former President George H.W. Bush backs John McCain's efforts to increase support for the Iraq war in a new video, a telecast that aides to both men say shouldn't be construed as an endorsement of McCain's White House bid.
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Republican presidential front-runner John McCain attacked rival Mitt Romney on the sensitive issue of Iraq Saturday, as polls showed the two tightly matched.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry clashed yesterday about whether conditions are improving in Iraq as the president continued to question his opponent&#39;s ability to lead.
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Sen. John McCain said Monday it was fair game to criticize Democrat John Kerry's anti-war protests three decades ago, firing an opening salvo as Republicans at their national convention sought to portray President Bush as a strong wartime leader.
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Sen. John McCain said Thursday that America should to deploy 15,000 to 30,000 more troops to Iraq to control its sectarian violence, and give moderate Iraqi politicians the stability they need to take the country in the right direction.
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FORT MYERS, Florida  - The Iraq war took center stage in the Republican race for the White House on Saturday as front-runner John McCain accused rival Mitt Romney of backing a timetable to pull U.S. troops out -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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President George W. Bush on Sunday told conservative members of his Republican Party that White House hopeful Sen. John McCain needed to do some work to win them over but he was a "true conservative."
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President Bush accused Sen. John Kerry on Friday of being too inconsistent to lead the country but Kerry shot back that the president was using that line of attack to shift attention from his deceptions on Iraq.
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CONCORD, New Hampshire  - Republican presidential candidate John McCain hit the road on Friday to rejuvenate his limping campaign but clung to the theme that helped get him in trouble -- his support for President George W. Bush's politically unpopular strategy in Iraq.
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Republican John McCain argued on Thursday that presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney lack the foreign policy experience to make the inevitable tough decisions of a wartime commander in chief.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Monday that a new message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in which he scolds his followers in Iraq proves that U.S. efforts there are succeeding.