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By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - Doubtful a final effort to gain U.N. backing for a U.S.-led invasion into Iraq (news - web sites) will prove successful, President Bush (news - web sites) and his two top allies hoped a brief summit on Sunday would increase the pressure Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). AP Photo   Departing early from the Camp David retreat where he spent the weekend, Bush was flying more than halfway across the Atlantic Ocean to meet for less than five hours with British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) and...

hree men meeting on an Atlantic island seems an apt symbol for the failure of the Bush administration to draw the world around its Iraq policy. That's not the intended message of President Bush's meeting today in the Azores with Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and José María Aznar of Spain, but it's hard to avoid that impression. In what appears to be the final days before an American invasion of Iraq, Mr. Bush is taking time to consult with two loyal allies and, ostensibly, to decide if any realistic chance remains for a new United Nations Security Council...

Well poor babies.....the French and the others working against us are all bent out of shape and trying to schedule meetings for next week, etc. Blixy babby wants to speed up inspections, and .........TFB babies, this gig is over.Listening to these networks talk about "last minute diplomacy" happening in the Azores.......News Flash: The Azores is the War council and the those who stood together will stand together and basiclly tell those who fought against them that we've taken all the time we're going to, we have the names of those who will help rebuild Iraq, and who will get the...

<p>President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar will convene a one-day emergency summit on the idyllic and isolated isles, hosted by Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso. The meeting, officially to examine prospects for a U.N. resolution on Iraq, will occur on the island of Terceira, home since 1951 to a U.S. air base in Lajes.</p>

LISBON, Sept 14 (AFP) - The United States has reserved a total of 20 air corridors across the Atlantic Ocean in the past 24 hours, some of them with access to Portugal's Lajes airbase on the Azores islands where an US air force unit is stationed, the Portuguese weekly Expresso reported Saturday. Quoting air controllers in the Azores, Expresso said that the United States normally only has four corridors. "There can only be one reason for this step, the transport of large quantities of light materiel that can only be transported by plane, as well as military personnel, to...