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Article: Huckabee, Romney square off in debate over Iraq
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- January 6, 2008
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Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee squabbled at close quarters over Iraq in a high-stakes debate before the crucial New Hampshire primary, while Sen. John McCain said he, alone had objected to the Bush administration's initial battle plan.
"I supported the president in the war before you did. I supported the surge when you didn't," Huckabee told Romney, the man he defeated in Thursday night's Iowa caucuses, in the debate Saturday night.
Romney said he disagreed with Huckabee writing in a recent Foreign Affairs article that the administration's foreign policy suffers from "an arrogant bunker mentality."
Huckabee, the former ...