Politics

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) listens to an official as he looks at a mortar launcher, while his defense minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi (second from left), looks on during a ceremony to unveil Iranian-made weapons and to mark the national day of Iran's defense industry on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohsen Rafinejad)

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**FILE** In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed July 23, 2012, a Free Syrian Army soldier looks at a military tank caught on fire during clashes with Syrian government troops in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

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On Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, Syrians Bassem Kharfani (left) and Mahmoud Jikar sit at the door of Mr. Jikar's house, one of more than a dozen homes destroyed in a Syrian government bombardment last week that killed more than 40 people in Azaz, Syria. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confer on Capitol Hill in Washington before testifying before Congress on Thursday, April 19, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is hydrated by a crew member in the Florida Straits between Cuba and the Florida Keys on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Diana Nyad via the Florida Keys News Bureau, Christi Barli)

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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, photograph, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., talks with reporters while attending the Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Mo. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

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Washington Nationals pitcher Jordan Zimmermann delivers a pitch Aug. 20, 2012, in the first inning of the Nationals' game against the Atlanta Braves at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Police escort protesters from the room Aug. 17, 2012, after disrupting Kris Kobach, Secretary of State from Kansas, as he addressed the Commission at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Immigration Briefing in Birmingham, Ala. (Associated Press/Southern Poverty Law Center, Butch Dill)