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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to walk away from his first visit to the United States without getting the Bush administration to put its heft behind Olmert’s sweeping West Bank pullback plan. U.S. and Israeli officials played down any expectation Monday that Olmert’s meeting Tuesday with President Bush would yield dramatic results. “I don’t expect anything formal, but the two of them obviously are going to be talking about ways to keep moving forward” with the peace process, White House spokesman Tony Snow said. Full Story