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Article: Speech at first Shia Muslim Convention in North America.
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- U.S. Department of Defense Speeches
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- May 25, 2003
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Remarks as delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Washington, DC, Sunday, May 25, 2003.
Wolfowitz: Thank you for the very warm welcome. Let me begin the way I learned to begin speeches when I was the American Ambassador to Indonesia for three years. (Shalam ... (inaudible).
And let me congratulate you on what seems to have been an outstanding event--a very American event if I might say for people organize themselves with the community to get together to express common interest--to do it in a democratic and peaceful fashion. In fact the great observer of American politics, some 200 years ago, whom I admit was a Frenchman named Alexis de ...