Bush: Iraq Strategy Sees Good Results

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Bush: Iraq Strategy Sees Good Results
BEN FELLER | August 11, 2007 11:12 AM EST


KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — President Bush, presiding over a nation dispirited by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, on Saturday cast both conflicts in terms of "encouraging news." In stating his case, the president emphasized enemy deaths.

"Our new strategy is delivering good results," Bush said of Iraq in his weekly radio address, taped at his parents' summer home on the rocky coast of Maine.

The president said his buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq, designed to provide security for the Iraqi government, was taking hold and showing gains. He acknowledged again, though, that Iraq has made frustratingly slow political progress.

Bush's comments came as Washington, like much of the nation, has shifted into vacation time. He said that in an otherwise slow news month, the war against terrorists rages on.

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Overall, Bush said al-Qaida and other extremists are under withering attack.

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Bush, echoing Karzai, said the resurgent Taliban is not a threat to the government of Afghanistan. "The Taliban fighters can still launch attacks on the innocent, but they cannot stop the march of democracy in Afghanistan," Bush said.


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