The news conference came as Bush launches a campaign apparently aimed at reversing opinion polls that suggest American support for the Iraq war is waning.

记者招待会的到来恰逢布什发动战争之时，很明显目的在于迂回民意测验，建议美国人支持伊拉克战争。

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While the Pope and Mr. Bush differ on such issues as rock roll the Iraq war and the death penally penalty, they do find coming common ground at in opposing abortion and gay marriage.

当虽然教皇与布希先生在伊拉克战争与死刑上有不同观点时，但他们会在反对堕胎与同性结婚上找到共同的立场。

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No such criticism attended the Bush administration's decision to turn over to Bob Woodward the highly classified notes from "50 National Security Council and other meetings" that became the basis for Woodward's hagiographic book, "Bush at War, " about the campaign to overthrow the Taliban during the fall of 2001.

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But he never attracted the hostility that has fastened on Mr Bush, at least since the Iraq war.

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President Bush spent today conducting a war council at Camp David evaluating progress or the lack of it in Iraq.

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