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Bush: '2008 Election Won't Affect Iraq Decisions'

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Mar 11, 2008 8:31 am US/Pacific

Bush: '2008 Election Won't Affect Iraq Decisions'

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ― President Bush is serving notice that he's still running the Iraq war, and that he won't be influenced by what's happening in the race for his job.

Bush told a friendly audience in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday that "the politics of 2008 is not going to enter into my calculations." He said that troop levels in Iraq will be driven instead by "the peace of the year to come."

The president is seeking to frame the war on his terms as the five-year anniversary of the Iraq war approaches next week. He spoke to the convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, and plans other Iraq speeches in coming days.

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