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Prime Minister Maliki Speaks!
Prime Minister Maliki Speaks!
In a wide ranging, interview, Iraqi President Nouri al Malaki appeared upbeat about the future of his country in contrast to the daily `bad news` coming from Iraq. `I fully understand why bad news makes the news` Maliki said. `It is the nature of the world we live in. At the same time, I think it is important to let the world know that things in our country are improving dramatically. Our unemployment rate has gone from nearly 70% to now under 30%. Our most recent growth rate was 3% and we have seen, in particular as a result of the recent Baghdad program a dramatic drop in so called sectarian violence. Speaking through an interpreter, but often breaking in to confirm a comment, Maliki was in control. `What is particular encouraging to me is the changes we have seen in our security forces and the trust from our people once again. We are finally seeing individual citizens provide information to our forces which has changed the situation dramatically in rooting out those who are determined to ruin our country.
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God Bless You, George Bush!
God Bless You, George Bush!
Marine one flew once over the National Mall and then circled around for one last view of the city that has been his home for the past eight years.
That was George and Laura Bush`s goodbye to Washington.
While the attention was elsewhere, 25 million people quietly in their hearts expressed gratitude for their freedom.
They were the people of Iraq who had given up hope in 2003. When nobody cared, nobody had the courage to stand up to Saddam Hussein, it was George W. Bush who did.
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The Danger Of Goodness
For those of us who have grown up and lived in totalitarian states the signs are ominous. The unquestioning adoration. The threats to anyone who dare oppose.
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One Simple Question
Washington DC
When I was a kid growing up in Japan, our parents told us `You can do anything, you can become anyone . . . . except President of the United States.
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Obama names Mideast, South Asia envoys
The president names two Democratic heavyweights as administration envoys to two of the world's most troubled regions. Reporting from Washington -- President Obama signed a series of executive orders today to overhaul military interrogation and detention, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and directing all U.S. employees to follow the Army's restrictive rules on interrogating suspects.
The new administration designed the directives to show a dramatic break with the Bush administration, which has been criticized in the U.S. and abroad for its secretive interrogation and detention of suspected terrorists, which some have said amounted to torture.
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