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Dozen House women defend Rice over Libya comments

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Associated Press/June 7, 2012 U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice listens during a news conference at the UN.

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In unusually personal terms, the Democratic women lashed out at Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham who earlier this week called Rice unqualified and untrustworthy and promised to scuttle her nomination if President Barack Obama nominates her to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.