TO STAY THE WRONG COURSE: KARL ROVE'S SHORT-TERM POLITICAL PLOYS HAVE UNDERMINED LONG-TERM REPUBLICAN POSSIBILITIES - SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, GUARDIAN, UK, NOVEMBER 2/COMMON DREAMS): Having set the theme of the midterm elections campaign as "staying the course" in Iraq, Bush declared a week ago that he had never uttered the phrase --which he had used dozens of times.
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