The Rev Jessie Jackson today spoke in front of the hospice where Terri Schiavo is being cared for with her family in the wings. “This is one of the most profound moral and ethical issues of our time….She has been starved to death. She has been dehydrated to death. We ask God for a miracle.”
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President Bush speaking to an audience of many Iraqis from the White House Rose Garden. The assembled audience were Iraqis and Iraqi-Americans who aided in the voting process in Iraq and for Iraqis in the US.
President Bush opened with condolences to the earthquake victims in Indonesia.About the Iraqi democracy and elections;“Freedom is on the march.”
“The World has seen Iraqi women vote in enormous numbers. Eighty women are in the transitional assembly.”
The new government must, “…uphold the will of the majority while respecting the rights of the minorities.”
The next step is the drafting of a consititution and in October there will be a National Referendum. “Then Iraqis will return to the polls to elect a permanent assembly.”
“Iraqis have taken big steps in a long journey of freedom.”
“The habits of liberty are built over generations.”
"Free people of Iraq are doing what Saddam never could do, be a positive example for the middle East.”
“Spreading freedom is the calling of our time.”
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