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Bush treated to Marines parade (AP)

President Bush reviews the troops after the preformance of the Evening Parade at the Marine Barracks in Washington, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - President Bush witnessed cannons firing, guns flinging and heavy marching at a Marines parade Friday night while visiting their barracks.




Democratic attacks "out-and-out false": White House (Reuters)
Reuters - The White House on Friday decried as "out-and-out false" some of the criticism leveled against President George W. Bush at the Democratic convention, where Barack Obama was named the party's presidential nominee.

White House cannot delay aides' testimony: judge (Reuters)

A chair reserved for former White House counsel Harriet Miers sits vacant at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee about the controversy over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys last year on Capitol Hill in Washington July 12, 2007. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. judge ruled against the Bush administration in its fight with Congress over a probe into the firings of U.S. attorneys by refusing on Tuesday to delay an order that current and former White House aides comply with congressional subpoenas.




Bush opposes independence for 2 regions in Georgia (AP)

Georgian soldiers, who returned to their military airbase in Senaki, clean up the trash left by the Russian forces. US Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Georgia next week in a show of support for the war-battered US ally amid a deepening freeze in Russian ties with the West, the White House said Monday.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)AP - President Bush appealed to Russia's president Monday to ignore the advice of lawmakers and refrain from recognizing Georgia's breakaway regions as independent.




Bush seeks to protect 3 remote island chains (AP)

President George W. Bush pauses during remarks about the War on Terror to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida August 20, 2008. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)AP - President Bush on Monday proposed protecting three remote island chains, launching a marine conservation effort that could be one of the largest in history.




Fla. homes evacuated as waters rise in wake of Fay (AP)

Tropical Storm Gustav is seen in a NOAA satellite image taken August 28, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)AP - The remnants of Tropical Storm Fay lingered Sunday, forcing residents in several parts of northern Florida to leave their homes as floodwaters rose.




New U.S. Housing Law Gives And Takes (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - To stimulate the sleepy housing market, President Bush signed an economic recovery act in late July. It includes an estimated $15 billion in tax incentives.

Party time: Bush plans rare state dinner, No. 6 (AP)

President George W. Bush pauses during remarks about the War on Terror to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida August 20, 2008. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)AP - Break out the tuxedoes and fancy gowns. It's time for a rare state dinner at the White House.




Bush consults with Iraqi on troop withdrawal (AP)

US President George W. Bush makes remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Orlando, Florida, on August 20, 2008. After years of denouncing timetables for a US withdrawal from Iraq, US President George W. Bush seemed poised Friday to accept late 2011 as a target date for a complete US troop pull-out.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki spoke Friday by secure video as work on a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2011 continued.




Campaigns vie over whether McCain is Bush clone (AP)

US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) speaks to employees about alternative energy sources at the Vestas Wind Technology plant in Portland, Oregon, in this May 12, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Richard Clement/FilesAP - Barack Obama likes to say, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term."