Mr Bush told the Associated Press in an interview that he would accept such a result if elections were open and fair.
Yep. Shocked the hell out of me too.
Correspondents say Mr Bush's comments appear to clash with earlier remarks from his administration which rejected calls soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime for the creation of an Islamic state similar to that of its neighbour, Iran.
Bush: I would accept Islamic Iraq, BBC News
In other words, FLIP-FLOP.