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Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) speaks to new NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the State Department in Washington, January 29, 2004. Powell said the United States would deploy fewer troops and have fewer bases in Europe as a result of its review of military forces around the world. Photo by William Philpott/Reuters

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President George W. Bush speaks to the press a meeting with his cabinet in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, February 2, 2004. Bush said he would appoint an independent commission to investigate discrepancies in intelligence used to justify the war against Iraq, reversing earlier opposition to a probe. Interior Secretary Gale Norton (L), Secretary of State Colin Powell (2nd L) and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (R) look on. Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters

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U.S. President George W. Bush talks with his cabinet next to Secretary of State Colin Powell (L) in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, February 2, 2004. Facing a record $521 billion deficit, President Bush proposed a $2.4 trillion election-year budget on Monday that will cut dozens of domestic programs and set deficit-reduction goals that even fellow Republicans are skeptical he can meet. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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File photo of Belgian Defense Minister Andre Flahaut walking on the tarmac of the Brussels' military airport on April 9, 2002. Belgium has again provoked U.S. ire after Flahaut criticized the U.S. army, prompting a sharp phone call from Secretary of State Colin Powell, officials said on Friday. Flahaut, who has a record of irritating Washington, told the weekly Humo in an interview last week that if he were a U.S. citizen he would vote Democrat in the November presidential election. He also said the U.S. Army was inefficient. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

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Smear job : A Police officer on duty at No.10 Downing Street checks the residence's paint-smeared gates after protestors expressed their feeling of what they consider a 'whitewash' of Goverment inquiries over the Iraqi war. (AFP/Martyn Hayhow)