Here is a partial text of President Bush's news conference on Tuesday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions: --- BUSH: Yesterday, I delivered the second in a series of speeches on the situation in Iraq. I spoke about the violence that the Iraqi people had faced since last month's bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. I also said that for every act of violence, there is encouraging progress in Iraq that's hard to capture on the evening news. Yesterday, I spoke about an important example of the gains we and the Iraqis have made, and that is in the northern...