At NATO, Bush to Lobby for Help in Iraq (not asking for more troops)

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At NATO, Bush to Lobby for Help in Iraq
By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will seek more international support to combat a surge of violence in Iraq at next week's NATO summit in Turkey, without asking for NATO troops, the White House said on Thursday.

Bush leaves on Friday for a five-day trip to Ireland and Turkey, his second Europe trip this month. He will attend a U.S.-European Union summit in Ireland on Saturday.

The White House said Bush's Turkey schedule was unchanged by a small bomb explosion outside the hotel where he will stay in Ankara and a separate blast in Istanbul that killed three people. The summit is in Istanbul on Monday and Tuesday.

Bush is under mounting election-year pressure at home to share the burden of Iraq after launching a war with the aim of disarming Iraq of weapons of mass destruction that have never been found.

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