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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: GWB in the Land of KHAN |
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fox news
| Quote: | Bush Calls Mongolia 'Brothers in the Cause of Freedom'
Monday, November 21, 2005
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — President Bush, buffeted by unrelenting criticism at home over Iraq, on Monday saluted Mongolia's "fearless warriors" for helping his embattled effort to establish democracy in the heart of the Middle East.
"Mongolia and the United States are standing together as brothers in the cause of freedom," Bush told Mongolian troops and lawmakers in a speech at the Government House.
After two days in China partly aimed at nudging that communist country toward greater freedoms, Bush's stop here -- the first by a U.S. president -- was meant to showcase the first communist country in Asia to turn toward democracy. Mongolia discarded communism 15 years ago; it holds democratic elections and allows Western-style freedoms.
"You are an example of success for the region and for the world," Bush said. "As you build a free society in the heart of Central Asia, the American people stand with you."
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Bush played to Mongolia's pride in its military by publicly recognizing two soldiers who gunned down a suicide truck bomber before he could strike a mess tent in Iraq. Mongolia's force of about 160 in Iraq makes it, with its population of just 2.8 million, the third-largest contributor per capita to the coalition.
"U.S. armed forces are proud to serve beside such fearless warriors," Bush said.
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"tell that frenchman kerry that it's pronounced Genghis, not Jenjhis."
pic caption slightly edited : )
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