Bush insisted last night that, despite its difficulties in Iraq, America would not retreat from the world, arguing that US leadership " is the only way to secure the peace". Isolationism and protectionism, he warned in his annual State of the Union address, led ultimately only " to danger and decline." Instead, according to excerpts of the speech released in advance by the White House, Mr Bush asked for more money to spend on basic science research, and on education in maths and science, to help the country face the challenge from rising, lower-wage powers like China and India. "The American economy is pre-eminent," he was to tell Congress on one of the great set-piece occasions of the political year. Our leadership got us into this endless war, and our leaders killed our education system and our leaders helped sent our industry overseas to India and China so they could eat our lunch. With leaders like this do we need a foreign enemy? ...
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Editor - 22:40:00 01-31-06
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 Bush hopes for a democratic Iran??? They have an elected Government, and have had one for a long time. Isn’t that what you call Democracy? |
| President Bush has told the people of Iran that he respects them and respects their country. In his State of the Union speech, Mr Bush said he hoped that America would one day be a close ally of a free and demo.. full News |
Editor - 22:03:00 01-31-06
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| Extracts of US President George W Bush's 2006 State of the Union address released in advance: |
| In this decisive year, you and I will make choices that determine both the future and the character of our country. We will choose to act confidently in pursuing the enemies of freedom - or retreat from our dut.. full News |
Editor - 20:46:00 01-31-06
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| Sheehan removed from Bush speech |
| Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush's State of the Union addre.. full News |
Editor - 20:30:00 01-31-06
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| Japan wealth gap fears fuel attack on PM Koizumi |
| Is your annual salary lower than your age multiplied by $1,000? Do you eat lots of snacks and fast foods? Japanese readers who answered yes to these and other questions by Atsushi Miura in his recent best-selle.. full News |
Editor - 20:26:00 01-31-06
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| Bush outlines broad election-year agenda |
| A politically weakened President Bush declared Tuesday night that America must break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq. “Americ.. full News |
Editor - 20:20:00 01-31-06
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