Bush Says Voters Ratified Iraq Policy
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President Bush says there is no need to hold anyone in his administration accountable for what has happened in Iraq because the voters have already spoken.
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FIRST THINGS FIRST &#151; Twenty-seven percent of voters said resolving the situation in Iraq should be President Bush's top priority.
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President Bush said Thursday that many of his friends have doubts about the U.S. role in Iraq but he believes he made the right decision to invade and thinks voters will not deny him a second term even if they disagree with the war.
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In an interview President George W. Bush expressed no regrets over his triumphant May 1, 2003 announcement that major combat was over in Iraq.
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President Bush, on a day of new violence in the Middle East, expressed determination to see Iraq hold elections on Jan. 30 and said they would show that terrorists cannot stop the march of democracy.
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President Bush acknowledged that the U.S. had encountered only "mixed" success in training Iraqi troops to secure the country.
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Bolstered by a hard-fought election victory, President Bush says the United States will vigorously pursue wars in Iraq and against terror and will not retreat from trying to spread democracy through the Middle East.
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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, speaking  to House of Representatives Democrats he has battled for six  years, said on Saturday he welcomed a vigorous debate on his  plan to increase U.S. combat troops in Iraq and he did not  question the patriotism of critics.
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President Bush called Sunday's elections in Iraq a success and promised the United States will continue trying to prepare Iraqis to secure their own country.
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US President George W Bush backs an Iraqi law to allow Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life.
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President Bush said Tuesday his decision to send more troops to Baghdad is yielding "gradual but important" progress in Iraq. He portrayed himself as steadfast while Democrats squabble over strategy.
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WASHINGTON &#151; Confronted with strong opposition to his Iraq policies, President Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way. Actually, he says, people agree with him.
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U.S. President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he saw signs of progress in Iraq on both the military and political fronts and again held out the possibility of a reduction in U.S. troop levels.
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President Bush is not contemplating withdrawing forces from Iraq now despite an erosion of support among Republicans for his war policy, the White House said Monday.
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President Bush acknowledged Monday that American military forces "can never guarantee 100 percent security" for Iraq's elections Jan. 30, but said the voting must proceed on schedule to let people choose democracy over terrorism.
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President Bush, trying to mend relations with Latin America, pledged Sunday to make a fresh push for stalled immigration reforms and defended the U.S. invasion of Iraq, saying that "history will prove it right."