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In an about-face, the Bush administration announced this week it is tossing out its rallying cry for the Iraq war.
The Republican running against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York denied a Monday newspaper report that he disparaged the Democratic senator's appearance.
On the cusp of an election that could overturn the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, CNN correspondent Candy Crowley jokingly asked a senior Democratic aide whether he had ordered new business cards to reflect majority status. "Don't underestimate our ability to blow it," he said.
As the U.S. death toll in Iraq reached 86, the highest monthly total this year, a senior White House adviser Monday rejected suggestions that U.S. troops were exacerbating problems in Iraq and that a timetable should be set to withdraw forces from the war-torn nation.
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