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0 Comments | AFP, February, 2006
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iraq war veterans are set to make their mark on the campaign for US congressional elections this year that could see President George W. Bush's Republican Party lose control.
About a dozen candidates who have fought in Iraq are running in the November midterm election, including Asian-American helicopter pilot Ladda "Tammy" Duckworth, who lost both legs when she was shot down in 2004.
Nearly all of those who have been in Iraq are political neophytes. And despite a US military that has a pronounced Republican leaning, most of the contenders are Democrats.
The "Band of Brothers" group, which assists Democratic veterans running for elective office, said there were 56 veterans of all conflicts running for a seat in the US legislature.
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