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NEW: Paper says rejection part of standard back-and-forth procedure John McCain writes essay in defending his Iraq policy New York Times suggests McCain submit piece that mirrors Barack Obama's Paper: Obama's essay had new information, McCain's critiqued Obama's positions (CNN) -- The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy. The piece was in response to an op-ed from Sen. Barack Obama that was published in the paper last week. In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be "pleased, though, to look at another draft." "Let me suggest an approach," he wrote Friday. "The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed... [read full story]
