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Bush Defends Iraq War in London Speech

By Don Gonyea

Published November 18, 2003 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 21 years ago.

Following a formal welcome to London from Queen Elizabeth II, President Bush delivers a speech aggressively defending the U.S.-led war in Iraq and re-affirming the "strong and enduring relationship" between the United States and Britain. Meanwhile, protesters who opposed the Iraq war line the streets of London. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and NPR's Guy Raz.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.