Bush delivers a speech in Nampa, Idaho.

    BEIJING, Aug. 25 -- Parents of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq plan to follow President George W. Bush around the country in the coming months after camping out at his Crawford ranch in Texas.

    Anti-war groups kept the pressure on Bush this week as he made speeches in Utah and Idaho, where he promised that US forces would remain in Iraq to complete their job to honour those who already died there.

    Amid growing public skepticism on the Iraq war, US President George W. Bush vowed on Wednesday to"stay on the course" on the anti-terrorism war as long as he is president.

    "So long as I am president we will stay, we will fight and we will win the war on terrorism," Bush said in a speech in Nampa, Idaho, to members of the Idaho National Guard and their families.

    "We'll complete our work in Afghanistan and Iraq," Bush said in his speech in Idaho.

    A majority of the Americans, however, doubt the country will win the war in Iraq, according to a July 27 USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll.

    It was also the first poll that showed more than half of Americans - 51 per cent - believed the Bush administration was deliberately misleading the public when it asserted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Enditem

    (Agencies)