Bush Dismisses Talk Of “Civil War” In Iraq...

The New York Times SHERYL GAY STOLBERG November 28, 2006 09:11 PM

On the eve of a high-profile trip to Jordan to meet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq, President Bush on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that Iraq has descended into civil war, blamed Al Qaeda for the latest wave of sectarian violence and vowed not to withdraw troops "until the mission is complete."

The president's remarks, during a swing through the Baltics that took him from Tallinn, Estonia, on Tuesday to Riga, Latvia, for a NATO summit meeting, were his first on Iraq since a series of bombs killed more than 200 people in a Shiite district of Baghdad last Thursday. It was the deadliest attack since the American invasion in 2003, and it was followed by bloody Shiite reprisals.

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