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On a day when the ongoing violence in Iraq killed over sixty people, the Bush administration said Tuesday that it will ask Congress to shift $3.46 billion from rebuilding projects to bolster security in the country. In announcing the shift, the State Department acknowledged that the growing insurgency in Iraq was in danger of undermining efforts to build democracy there.

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