White House Resists Major Course Change in Iraq (Reuters)

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush will resist election-year pressure for a major shift in strategy in Iraq, the White House said Friday, despite growing doubts among Americans and anxiety over the war among Republican lawmakers.

  Pressure is growing in the U.S. Congress for a course correction in a war that has cost the lives of at least 73 Americans in October alone.

  "I don't believe we can continue based on an open-ended, unconditional presence," Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe was quoted in The Washington Post as saying.

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