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Laura Bush's Popularity May Rescue GOP

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With polls showing President Bush's support flagging, first lady Laura Bush, whose approval numbers remain well above 60 percent, is raising her profile in a bid to get the White House's message out and help the GOP retain control of Congress.

Appearing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Mrs. Bush explained:

"The President has an agenda that he wants to see out through the rest of his term . . . It's important for the rest of his agenda to, to have a Republican Congress."

"So I'm happy to have the opportunity to campaign for Republicans," she added.

The first lady said the barrage of negative press coverage of the Iraq war, for instance, doesn't reflect the true feelings of the American people.

"I go to every part of our country, and what I see is that Americans are standing with our troops," she told 'This Week.' "They want them to succeed. They want them to be successful. They want the Iraqi people to be successful."

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  Mrs. Bush said that while the bad press was not necessarily unfair, reporters seemed to "enjoy" painting her husband's policies as failures.

"I think they're maybe enjoying this a little bit. I mean, that's what it seems like," she said.

Mrs. Bush also blasted the recent spate of intelligence leaks that have undermined White House efforts to prevent another 9/11-style attack.

"I think [the leaking] hamstrings us in the war on terror, and the president vowed to protect the people of the United States, and that's what he has to do," she told "Fox News Sunday."

"If intelligence activities had not been authorized by the president within the law, as they are, and we had a terrorist attack, people the question would be the opposite, why haven't you been trying to track al-Qaida or links to al-Qaida in the United States."

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