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In Newsweek poll, President Bush earns 61 percent approval rating and 58 percent support his policies toward Iraq . . . Bush: “If Iraq gains even greater destructive power, nations in the Middle East would face blackmail, intimidation, or attack. Chaos in that region would be felt in Europe and beyond. . . Those who choose to live in denial may eventually be forced to live in fear.” . . . Rudy Giuliani: “The reality is that Saddam Hussein remains a significant danger to this country because he supports, condones, and makes terrorism possible.” . . . National security adviser Condoleezza Rice on rogue nations, in The New Yorker: “It’s probably best not to name them. . . Let me say that there are several. It’s not three, as in the axis of evil, but it’s not tens of, either” . . . Rice, on the possibility of becoming vice president: “We have one.”

RNC’s Matthew Dowd: “The president and the Republican party are in a historic and positive position. Since 1934, the incumbent party of the president has lost an average of 27 congressional seats in the first midterm election. It now appears this midterm will not follow the trend of history.” . . . Vice President Cheney on how he differs from recent predecessors, in National Journal: “I’m not running in 2008 . . . I’m not spending my time figuring out how to do a side deal for a county chairman in New Hampshire or raising money for some guy in Colorado so he’ll owe me a personal favor. One hundred percent of my time is spent doing the work of the Bush administration.” . . . The Washington Post reports that Cheney is reading An Autumn of War by Victor Davis Hanson, “and raving to his staff that it captures his philosophy.”

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In Newsweek poll, President Bush earns 61 percent approval rating and 58 percent support his policies toward Iraq . . . Bush: “If Iraq gains even greater destructive power, nations in the Middle East would face blackmail, intimidation, or attack. Chaos in that region would be felt in Europe and beyond. . . Those who choose to live in denial may eventually be forced to live in fear.” . . . Rudy Giuliani: “The reality is that Saddam Hussein remains a significant danger to this country because he supports, condones, and makes terrorism possible.” . . . National security adviser Condoleezza Rice on rogue nations, in The New Yorker: “It’s probably best not to name them. . . Let me say that there are several. It’s not three, as in the axis of evil, but it’s not tens of, either” . . . Rice, on the possibility of becoming vice president: “We have one.”

RNC’s Matthew Dowd: “The president and the Republican party are in a historic and positive position. Since 1934, the incumbent party of the president has lost an average of 27 congressional seats in the first midterm election. It now appears this midterm will not follow the trend of history.” . . . Vice President Cheney on how he differs from recent predecessors, in National Journal: “I’m not running in 2008 . . . I’m not spending my time figuring out how to do a side deal for a county chairman in New Hampshire or raising money for some guy in Colorado so he’ll owe me a personal favor. One hundred percent of my time is spent doing the work of the Bush administration.” . . . The Washington Post reports that Cheney is reading An Autumn of War by Victor Davis Hanson, “and raving to his staff that it captures his philosophy.”