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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, for a meeting with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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** CORRECTS DATE ** Medea Benjamin, center, carries mock headstones towards the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, as she protests the meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Tourists from Uruguay, left, hold up signs as they briefly join a protest against the meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Demonstrators protest the meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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This June 2003 file photo of a Boeing 747 of Iran's national airline Iran Air at Mehrabad International airport in Tehran. The EU on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, banned most of Iran Air's jets from flying to Europe due to safety concerns, emphasizing that the move was not related to U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. The 27-nation bloc also relaxed restrictions on two airlines from Indonesia and put a Surinam airline on its blacklist of carriers the EU believes do not meet international safety standards. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, file)

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President Obama signs four executive orders, including one to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the Oval Office on Jan. 22, 2009, as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. looks on. Dana Perino, who was press secretary at the end of the Bush administration, said she watched with amusement during the 2008 campaign as Mr. Obama made promises she knew he would be hard-pressed to keep. (The Washington Times)

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DEJA-VU: President Bush takes a walking tour of a Biloxi, Miss., neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina in a visit in September 2005. (Associated Press)

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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele faces greatly diminished projections for the party's get-out-the-vote "victory" programs. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama attended the Duke-Georgetown NCAA game on Jan. 30, 2010 with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, shakes hands with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad before their meeting in Jerusalem, Monday, July 5, 2010. Israel on Monday redefined the rules of its Gaza Strip embargo, spelling out on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's White House visit what will be restricted from entering the territory under a much-eased land blockade. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in the Armenian capital Yerevan, Sunday, July 4, 2010, during her brief visit to the ex-Soviet nation. mRS. Clinton on Sunday appealed to Armenia and Azerbaijan for a peaceful resolution of a long-running territorial dispute between the neighboring ex-Soviet states, but there were no outward signs of fresh diplomatic progress. (AP Photo/PanARMENIAN Photo)Hakobyan)

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Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski greets supporters after exit polls indicate him to be the possible winner in the presidential elections, during the election night in Warsaw, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Komorowski with a very slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with official results not expected until Monday. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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**FILE** Fireworks explode over Washington as the United States celebrates its 234th birthday on Sunday, July 4, 2010. Seen from left is the U.S. Capitol, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Fireworks explode over Washington as the United States celebrates its 234th birthday, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Seen from left is the U.S. Capitol, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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A woman casts her ballot during state elections in the town of Puerto Aventuras in Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Sunday July 4, 2010. A dozen Mexican states held elections Sunday after campaigning besieged by assassinations and scandals that have showcased the drug cartels' power, like in Quintana Roo where one of the main candidates for governor was arrested last month on charges of protecting two cartels. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)

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Guest John Robson wears a 12-star 'Betsy Ross' American Flag bowtie while attending U.S Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson's 4th of July Party in Ottawa on Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Pawel Dwulit)