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Iraq, U.S. election losses trail Bush to Europe

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-11-22T164238Z_01_N21406845_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&src=112206_1152_DOUBLEFEATURE_iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President George W. Bush visits Europe next week for the first time since crushing U.S. election losses, allies will find him hobbled by the defeat and chastened by the clamor for change in Iraq.

Foreign policy experts and analysts predict at least a glimmer of the humility in international affairs that Bush promised six years ago when he first won the White House but hardly a wholesale rollback of the hawkish policies that angered many European leaders.

"European allies expect a turn back toward the center and a kinder and gentler America," said Charles Kupchan, a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Rampant sectarian killings in Iraq and the daily carnage Americans have seen on their television screens in the weeks since has added to the sense of urgency for a new strategy.

For Europeans who strongly opposed the war, the U.S. elections brought vindication. Now, they wonder if Bush's post-election emphasis on bipartisanship and the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is mere window-dressing or a genuine shift away from a go-it-alone stance they reject.

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