Bush Insists That U.S. Troops Will Stay in Iraq
President Bush said emphatically on Monday that the United States would not leave Iraq even though the White House had decided to speed the transfer of American civilian authority to a new government in Baghdad. “I assured these five women that America wasn’t leaving,” Mr. Bush told reporters at the end of a meeting with a group of leading Iraqi women in the Oval Office. “When they hear me say, `We’re staying,’ that means we’re staying.” Full Story