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Bush 'Not Satisfied' with Events in Iraq

By Don Gonyea, Steve Inskeep

Published October 25, 2006 at 8:33 AM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

President Bush concedes during a White House news conference that "many Americans are not satisfied with the situation" in an increasingly violent Iraq.

Despite conceding painful losses, Bush said victory was essential in Iraq as part of the broader war on terror.

The president again rejected "a fixed timetable for withdrawal," calling that idea a sign of "defeat."

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Bush said that his administration was pressing the Iraqi government to take more responsibility for its own security.

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Don Gonyea

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.

Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.