Article: Bush and Blair review Iraq progress, look to ease conflicts in Mideast, Northern Ireland

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Dateline: WASHINGTON President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are meeting for the third time in a month to discuss the war in Iraq, but this time their agenda also includes peace initiatives in the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

Bush was flying to Belfast early Monday for a summit meant principally to review war progress and to iron out differences about how Iraq will be rebuilt and governed when hostilities end.

The reconstruction question has divided Bush's advisers and the United States and Britain. Blair is said to want deeper U.N. involvement in postwar Iraq than Bush, who seeks a transitional governing authority consisting of Iraqi ...

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