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President George W. Bush held a "council of war" with his security team at a desert air base in western Iraq on Monday, a week before testimony to Congress that could influence policy on the war.
Bush, heading for a showdown with congressional critics pressing him to begin withdrawing troops, flew secretly to the al Asad Air Base in Anbar province, once a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold but now a success story for the U.S. military.
He was also due to meet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose inability to use the "breathing space" provided by extra U.S. troops to foster national reconciliation has prompted some opposition Democrats to call for the Shi'ite leader's ouster.
The president was accompanied by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and national security adviser Steven Hadley. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived separately.
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