The White House denied reports from Iraq that US President George W. Bush had told a top Shiite leader that he opposed Ibrahim Jaafari as the country’s next prime minister. Bush spokesman Scott McClellan was asked about reports that Bush had written to powerful Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim asking him to oust Jaafari as the next premier. “I don’t think that’s an accurate report at all, what you just described,” McClellan told reporters asking about the reports. Full Story