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Article: PRESIDENT MEETS WITH VICE PRESIDENT HASHEMI OF IRAQ
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 12, 2006
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The White House released the following transcript:
Oval Office
1:51 P.M. EST
PRESIDENT BUSH: It's been my honor to meet with the Vice President of Iraq again. I had the pleasure of meeting the Vice President in Baghdad. It was there that I invited him to come to Washington, D.C., and I did so because I understand his importance to the future of Iraq.
The Vice President suffered unspeakable violence in his family. He's lost loved ones to violent action. And, yet, in spite of his grief and in spite of pain in his heart, he was willing to work for a united Iraq and a peaceful Iraq; an Iraq that can govern itself and sustain itself and defend itself; a free Iraq that will be an ally in the war ...