Mr. MEAD: Well, I guess, whatever the object is, or the item, I always try to re-envision it as two or three other things.

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But ultimately, if you looked at, I guess, the national polls or whatever, the feeling was that the Bush argument, meaning that this is jeopardizing the - they're taking care of the American - the troops in Iraq.

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"I shouldn't have been there anyways, so I guess it was deserved, getting a -- whatever it was -- off the cactus, " McIlroy said on the PGA Tour website.

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