UPDATE: Saturday, January 12, 2008 - President Bush’s Middle East Trip

UPDATE: Saturday, January 12, 2008
President Bush’s Middle East Trip
January 8 - 16, 2008

About Photo: President George W. Bush stands in front of a U.S. flag Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, as he addresses military personnel and coalition forces at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. The President told the troops, "It's hard work you're doing, but it's necessary work." Read the story HERE
White House photo by Eric Draper
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* Newsweek.com has this story today and it goes in part like this... In remarks to the traveling press, delivered from the Third Army operation command center here, Bush said that negotiations were about to begin on a long-term strategic partnership with the Iraqi government modeled on the accords the United States has with Kuwait and many other countries. Crocker, who flew in from Baghdad with Petraeus to meet with the president, elaborated: "We're putting our team together now, making preparations in Washington," he told reporters. "The Iraqis are doing the same. And in the few weeks ahead, we would expect to get together to start this negotiating process." The target date for concluding the agreement is July...
Read the full story at link below...
Sorry, Barack, You’ve lost Iraq
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* President’s Saturday Radio Address
Has Transcript and Audio

* Lots of info on President Bush’s Middle East Trip, January 8 - 16, 2008 can be found at this White House link HERE

More to come...
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