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Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. occupation of Iraq was mishandled.
(By Fred Watkins -- Associated Press)
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Democrat Ekes Out House Race in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy won a tight House race in central Ohio, decided only after elections officials tallied provisional ballots.
Kilroy defeated Republican Steve Stivers on Sunday by more than 2,300 votes, enough to avoid an automatic recount. She will replace retiring Republican Deborah Pryce in representing the state's 15th Congressional District.
Kilroy trailed Stivers by 594 votes when officials began counting about 9,600 provisional ballots in her district. The ballots were issued at polls to people who believed they were wrongly denied the right to vote.
The election was the last undecided House race in the country. Kilroy's victory means Democrats will hold 257 seats in the House, while Republicans will hold 178.
Blackwater Guards Plan To Surrender in Utah
Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards, indicted in Washington for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians, plan to surrender to the FBI on Monday in Utah, a person close to the case said, setting up a fight over the trial site.
By surrendering in Utah, the home state of one of the guards, the men could argue in more conservative venue than Washington. The five guards, all military veterans, were indicted for their roles in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. Prosecutors are expected to argue that crimes committed overseas are normally charged in Washington.
Rice Regrets Bad Intelligence
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that she regrets that the Bush administration relied on flawed intelligence as the basis for going to war in Iraq, and she took partial responsibility for mismanaging the post-invasion occupation. "While it's fine to go back and say what might we have done differently, the truth of the matter is we don't have that luxury," Rice said on "Fox News Sunday."
"I would give anything to be able to go back and to know precisely what we were going to find when we were there. But that isn't the way that these things work," Rice said. "And I still believe that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is going to turn out to be a great strategic achievement."
-- From News Services
