But the US president rejected demands that Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld be sacked for his failure to prevent atrocities against Iraqi prisoners.
Bush said that the waiver would 'facilitate the transition to democratic rule in Pakistan'.
The deal, which would allow Russia to import and store spent nuclear fuel, is likely to face stiff opposition from Congress.
According to the criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday, Aldawsari conducted research on potential terror targets in the US including hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants and the Dallas address for former President Bush.
This is the first time President Bush has gone on record saying that US forces were `stressed' in Iraq.
The winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics says recovery could be difficult if the crisis in Egypt spreads to the entire region.
US President George W Bush plans to announce a "substantial discount" on the $5 billion deal to sell F-16s to Pakistan during President Pervez Musharraf's visit to Washington.
In a dramatic nationwide broadcast on Friday evening, the American president commended Libyan leader Maommar Gadhafi's 'wise, responsible and constructive' example to other nations.
Fifty-two per cent said they 'strongly' disapprove of his job performance, the highest figure of his presidency and more than three times the 16 per cent who strongly approve.
The erstwhile envoy to New Delhi made these remarks after accepting the 2007 Bridge-Builder Award for his role in transforming US-India relations.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did her best that she could do in the given circumstances, on her five days visit to India.
Probably acknowledging setbacks in Iraq for the first time, Bush predicted violence will not end with parliamentary polls on Thursday and that a lot of work remained to be done.
"The president is going on the last mile for diplomacy. We shall see if the other nations on the Security Council are\n\nwilling to entertain the last mile," White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said.
Defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and joint chiefs of staff chairman General Richard Myers are expected to testify before a senate committee Friday.
'Egypt brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, but Hamas routinely violated that ceasefire by launching rockets into Israel. On December 19th, Hamas announced an end to the ceasefire and soon unleashed a barrage of rockets and mortars that deliberately targeted innocent Israelis -- an act of terror that is opposed by the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people, President (Mahmoud) Abbas,' Bush said. More than 400 people have been killed in the latest attacks.
I have personally talked to the president if we had a clear shot to assassinate him, we would probably do that, Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald told Chicago's Daily Herald.
"The best is yet to come" in the relations between India and the US, Mulford said.
With tensions mounting between Islamabad and New Delhi over the Mumbai terror attacks, the White House has said it is yet to confront evidence of Pakistan government's involvement and trusts it to cooperate in the investigation.
Sonia will be coming to Washington after the warm reception given to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demonstrated acknowledgement of India as a rising world power.\n
US foreign policy had been 'aggressive in terms of going after challenges, issues,' and the president was 'going to keep moving in this direction,' he said.
United States President George W Bush has warned that State sponsors of terror are as guilty as the terrorists and will be held accountable, and acknowledged that terrorists continued to pose "serious challenges" as evidenced by the Mumbai terror attacks
US President George W Bush has defended the civilian nuclear energy arrangement with India, saying it is a "good policy" for America
The American Jewish Committee, a powerful Jewish group with more than 150,000 members in the US, urged US Senators and Representatives to approve the agreement, also known as 123 Agreement, saying it believes that the overarching benefit of this agreement is strategic. In a similar show of support the US Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business federation, sent a letter to all members of the House and Senate.
The US has listed India among the world's major illicit drug producing and transit countries alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan, while praising its government for strong counter-narcotic measures and efforts to curb the illegal production.
Newsweek has carried a report that says Karzai's move may not have been wise.
On what he will choose between cricket and a Bollywood movie, Bush said he was more a 'cricket match person.'
The most intense debate is centered around Colin Powell, secretary of state.
All major political parties, including Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left, on Saturday lashed out at United States President George W Bush for blaming growing demand in India for the spiralling global food prices as the opposition used the opportunity to attack the government. Most parties said a major reason for the spiralling global food prices was diversion of land producing foodcrops in the US to bio-fuel production.
US President George W Bush telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday during when the two leaders expressed a desire to move forward on the nuclear deal "as expeditiously as possible".
In his memoirs, the former German Chancellor says that 'when (a leader) takes political action directly from prayer, in other words from a dialogue with God, it can be problematic for a democracy.'
Dr Akshay Desai from Florida and Joseph Melookaran from Kansas have been chosen by Bush as Commissioners to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
