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McCain, Obama find common ground at Columbia forum

In a brief and uneven truce in an otherwise rough few days of political warfare, presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama agreed last night on the need to expand the U.S. military, and said they would have done more to tap the nation's outpouring of patriotism if they had been in the White House when the World Trade Center was attacked.

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