Bush meets aides over faster political transition in Iraq

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Bush meets aides over faster political transition in Iraq

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US President George W. Bush met his top aides at the White House on Wednesday to discuss how to accelerate the political transition in Iraq amid escalating attacks on US-led occupation forces in the oil-rich country.

Bush reportedly first convened a meeting of the National Security Council, which includes top US officials such as Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Presidential National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

The president then met jointly with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Paul Bremer, the top US civilian administrator in Iraq, who hurried back to Washington at short notice Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters earlier, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said President Bush and his aides will discuss "the importance of accelerating our efforts on all fronts: on the security front, on the political front, and on the reconstruction and economic front."

The White House meetings were held amid reports that the Bush administration is mulling over whether to revamp or abandon its hand-picked but dysfunctional Iraqi Governing Council and preparesto adopt a new strategy to quicken the political transition in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the Central Intelligence Agency has warned in a new report that Iraqis may increase support for resistance to US-led allied forces because they are losing faith in the occupation, agencies reports quoted US officials as saying.

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