GOP Senator's Call For Iraq Change Causes “Growing Sense Of Unease” Among Republicans...

The New York Times SHERYL GAY STOLBERG October 6, 2006 at 10:01 PM
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The White House, caught off guard by a leading Republican senator who said the situation in Iraq was "drifting sideways," responded cautiously on Friday, with a spokeswoman for President Bush stopping short of saying outright that Mr. Bush disagreed with the assessment.

"I don't believe that the president thinks that way," Dana Perino, the deputy White House press secretary, said when asked whether the president agreed with the senator, John Warner of Virginia. "I think that he believes that while it is tough going in Iraq, that slow progress is being made."
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