The United States Democrat challenger for the White House, John Kerry, has raised more money in the past six months than President George W Bush, with his Democratic Party embracing the internet to help it cancel out what is a traditional Republican advantage. Kerry raised more than -million in the first six months of this year.
President George W Bush’s staunchest ally in continental Europe on Wednesday signalled it was getting cold feet over its military presence in Iraq. Poland’s Prime Minister, Leszek Miller, said he was considering a retreat from Iraq and conceded that the decision by the new Spanish government to pull out was a problem — a view echoed by the conservative Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.
United States President George W Bush swept aside decades of diplomatic tradition in the Middle East this week, saying it was ”unrealistic” to expect a full Israeli withdrawal from lands occupied during the 1967 war, or the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
George and Laura Bush invited a number of their closest Afghan and Iraqi women friends to a reception at the White House the other day. In his remarks, Bush was nostalgic about his first meeting with the guest of honour: Raja Habib Khuzai, one of three women on the US-appointed Iraqi governing council.
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/ 13 February 2004
A Middle East-based British businessman has emerged as a key suspect in a secret network supplying Libya, Iran and North Korea with equipment to build nuclear bombs. Speaking for the first time this week, Paul Griffin denied that his company played any part in shipping prohibited material from the Far East.
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/ 11 February 2004
A tearful reunion with a former comrade revived John Kerry’s presidential bid. Why does Vietnam still exert such power over US voters? Two days after the two Vietnam veterans embraced at a campaign rally, the caucus goers of Iowa delivered a stunning victory to Kerry, confounding those who had declared his campaign dead.
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/ 6 February 2004
An independent commission on the September 11 2001 terror attacks, established along similar lines to the intelligence inquiry announced by the United States White House this week, has been dogged by a constant struggle between the investigators and the Republican administration, which the commission regularly accuses of hampering its work.
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/ 23 January 2004
President George W Bush struck out for the United States’s industrial heartland this week, seeking to drum up support for the economic measures unveiled in his state of the union address and his campaign for re-election in November. Most commentators said the switch in emphasis was clearly dictated by the Democratic primary contest, which had highlighted healthcare, education and jobs.
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/ 31 October 2003
President George W Bush this week tried to stifle rising doubts on the occupation of Iraq by insisting this week’s bombings were a sign that life had improved under the United States’s watch. Comparisons being made between the official justification for war in Vietnam and the administration’s media strategy in Iraq.
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/ 24 October 2003
A new agency has been established to oversee funds for the reconstruction of Iraq, in a move widely seen as an attempt to ease concerns about the Pentagon’s mono- poly over the rebuilding programme.