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Thu 12 Dec 2005Bush defends war based on faulty intelligenceUS: President George W Bush has accepted responsibility for going to war in Iraq on the basis of faulty intelligence but defended his decision as acting in America's national security interest.In his fourth speech on Iraq in two weeks, Mr Bush hailed today's elections as a watershed for democracy in the Middle East and promised that US troops would stay in Iraq until they achieved complete victory.