Bush: Iraq strategy sees good results (weekly radio address) - AP

Bush: Iraq strategy sees good results

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer
22 minutes ago

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.

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Bush's address amounted to another appeal for patience and
upbeat view of events.

He noted the death of Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-
Badri, an al-Qaida leader who was behind the bombing of twin
minarets at Iraq's prized Golden Dome shrine in Samarra. Al-
Badri was killed in a U.S. operation this month.

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