Iraq war bill puts pressure on Arnold

He's thrust himself onto the national stage while tackling global warming and health care reform, gracing magazine covers and chatting up the Sunday morning talk show circuit as he pushes his oversize political agenda. Steve Harmon in the San Jose Mercury News.

But when it comes to the most wrenching issue facing the nation - the war in Iraq - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has mostly shied away from the topic and avoided taking any hard-line position.

Now Schwarzenegger might not have a choice. Or, put another way, America's most famous politician who can't run for president now has the best opportunity yet to send a message on how he really feels about the war.

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