President Bush speaks about progress in Iraq outside the White House Thursday. WASHINGTON - President Bush predicted Thursday that he can bring more troops home from Iraq by the end of the year if the decline in violence continues. "There now...

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WASHINGTON — President Bush said Thursday that increased stability in Iraq would allow the withdrawal of more American forces there, reflecting an emerging consensus at the White House and the Pentagon, though a cautious one, that the war has turned...
While praising security gains attained in Iraq as violence has dropped to its lowest since spring 2004, US President Georges W Bush decided to cut the length of US combat tours in Iraq. In his weekly address in the White House, Bush announced...
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(VOI) - U.S president George Bush on Thursday held out the prospect of further troop reductions in Iraq later this year, hailing a new security gains achieved in the violence-torn country. "This has been a month of encouraging news from Iraq," a...
A United States-Iraq security pact would set a goal -- but no timetable -- for the American units to leave, Iraqi officials say. BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials said Thursday that they were close to finalizing a new security arrangement that would set...