Bush challenges "misimpressions" about Iraq [View All]

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Bush challenges "misimpressions" about Iraq By Caren Bohan

President Bush on Saturday challenged "misimpressions" about the Iraq war as he battled a gloomy intelligence assessment of the conflict and the fallout of a book portraying him as in denial over it.

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Bush used his weekly radio address to hit back at critics who cited the newly declassified National Intelligence Estimate as evidence the Iraq war has worsened the terrorism threat. He said early leaks about it created "a lot of misimpressions about the document's conclusions."

"Some in Washington have selectively quoted from this document to make the case that by fighting the terrorists in Iraq, we are making our people less secure here at home," he said. "This argument buys into the enemy's propaganda that the terrorists attack us because we are provoking them."

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