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Quentin Peel: Defeat adds to pressure over Iraq

By Quentin Peel

Published: November 8 2006 09:57 | Last updated: November 8 2006 09:57

Will the bloody defeat of George W. Bush’s Republican party in the US mid-term elections signal big changes on the foreign policy front?

A leading slogan of the victorious Democrats was “change in Iraq”, and it clearly met a response from the voters. Two-thirds said the war in Iraq was a decisive factor in their voting intentions, unlike the normal domestic concerns that tend to dominate elections.

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