Bush: Iraq plan on course, no buckling to insurgents
POSTED: 11:47 a.m. EST, February 14, 2007
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• NEW: Bush says plans to increase security in Iraq with U.S., Iraqi troops on course
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• The president's most recent formal news conference was in late December
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraq is fulfilling its commitment to increase troops and security in Baghdad, President Bush said Wednesday.
In his first news conference in two months, Bush said Iraqi insurgents will do all they can to "undermine the Maliki government and its Baghdad security plan."
"These are people that will kill innocent men, women and children to achieve their objective, which is to discourage the Iraqi people, to foment sectarian violence -- and to, frankly, discourage us from helping" the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki do its job, Bush said.
Bush said insurgents are also trying hard to turn American public opinion against the war.
"They're all aimed at, frankly, causing people here in America to say it's not worth it," Bush said of insurgent attacks.
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