SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–Republican political operative Karl Rove, speaking to an insurance group here yesterday, found himself defending the Iraq war after a challenge from an audience member.

Mr. Rove, the former senior advisor to President George W. Bush, who was generally well received by members of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) at their annual meeting here, got the negative feedback during a question and answer session.

Earlier he had praised the courage of a family that had two sons serving as Marine officers. He said that after one of his boys was killed in Iraq, the father, a doctor, after a condolence visit by President Bush, secured an age waiver so he could serve in the Navy Medical Reserve.

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