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Snow Backtracks About Iraq Parliament Vacation

By Associated Press | July 19, 2007

WASHINGTON — President Bush's press secretary yesterday backed off a comment that appeared to suggest the administration was resigned to Iraqi lawmakers taking August off based on the summer heat in Baghdad. "I used a dumb line," Tony Snow told reporters. ... The fact is, we expect the Iraqi government to continue working at all times toward the goals of political accommodation and reconciliation. We made it clear."