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Speaking on a cloudy day at Falcon Stadium, the president compared the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to America's earlier conflicts, particularly World War II.

SAN JOSE—Senator John McCain rejected the endorsement on Thursday of the evangelical leader, the Rev. John C. Hagee, three stormy months after it was first announced as part of an effort to shore up Mr. McCain’s standing among Christian conservatives. The Rev. John C. Hagee (Photo: Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times) The rejection of Mr. Hagee’s endorsement occurred after another controversial sermon from the televangelist and pastor of Cornerstone, a mega-church in San Antonio, surfaced in which he argued that biblical verses made clear that Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust was part of God’s plan to chase the Jews from Europe and drive them to Palestine.

Veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov withdrew from Russia's presidential race on Wednesday, saying the opposition needed to put forward a single candidate in the March election to withstand the Kremlin's "foul play." Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, officially registered as a presidential candidate on Wednesday, said he might yet decide not to run if he felt the Kremlin was not playing according to the rules during the campaign. In a statement on his personal Web site, the former deputy prime minister and Union of Right Forces (SPS) presidential candidate said the Kremlin had turned democratic elections into "a clear-cut farce." "(The Kremlin) is using Goebbels-esque propaganda, law-enforcement and administrative resources against opposition candidates," Nemtsov said, referring to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. "The democratic opposition needs a single candidate. Therefore, I have made the decision to withdraw from participation in the presidential election." Nemtsov had little chance of beating Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate Dmitry Medvedev. Polls show most Russians will back whomever the highly-popular president backs.