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Issue date: 3/19/08 Section: News
Cheney: Mideast could remain place of 'stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export'
1 BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - Rallying troops after an overnight stay at an air base, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that as long as freedom is suppressed in the Mideast, the region will remain a place of "stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export."
"You and I know what it means to be free," Cheney told the troops at an outdoor rally.
"We wouldn't give such freedoms away and neither would the people of Iraq or Afghanistan, but in both of those countries, they're facing attack from violent extremists who want to end all democratic progress and pull them once again in the direction of tyranny.
"We're helping them fight back because it's the right thing to do and because it's important to our own long-term security," Cheney said. "As President Bush has said, the war on terror is an ideological struggle and as long as this part of the world remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export."
The vice president, the highest-ranking U.S. official to sleepover in Iraq, plans to meet with Iraqi leaders before heading to Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinian territory and Turkey, the next stops on his 10-day trip through the region.
Putin, Medvedev set positive tone as U.S.-Russia prepare for talks on missile defense
2MOSCOW (AP) - The top U.S. and Russian national security ministers pledged cooperation Tuesday as the two nations aired disagreements over a planned U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe that has angered Russia.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she hoped a day of joint discussions she and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were holding with their Russian counterparts would "strengthen our partnership and perhaps overcome some of our differences."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would do what it could to keep relations with the United States on an even keel as Russian President Vladimir Putin steps down this spring.
1 BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - Rallying troops after an overnight stay at an air base, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that as long as freedom is suppressed in the Mideast, the region will remain a place of "stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export."
"You and I know what it means to be free," Cheney told the troops at an outdoor rally.
"We wouldn't give such freedoms away and neither would the people of Iraq or Afghanistan, but in both of those countries, they're facing attack from violent extremists who want to end all democratic progress and pull them once again in the direction of tyranny.
"We're helping them fight back because it's the right thing to do and because it's important to our own long-term security," Cheney said. "As President Bush has said, the war on terror is an ideological struggle and as long as this part of the world remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export."
The vice president, the highest-ranking U.S. official to sleepover in Iraq, plans to meet with Iraqi leaders before heading to Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinian territory and Turkey, the next stops on his 10-day trip through the region.
Putin, Medvedev set positive tone as U.S.-Russia prepare for talks on missile defense
2MOSCOW (AP) - The top U.S. and Russian national security ministers pledged cooperation Tuesday as the two nations aired disagreements over a planned U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe that has angered Russia.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she hoped a day of joint discussions she and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were holding with their Russian counterparts would "strengthen our partnership and perhaps overcome some of our differences."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would do what it could to keep relations with the United States on an even keel as Russian President Vladimir Putin steps down this spring.
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steve
posted 3/19/08 @ 7:28 PM CST
Diddy did it. Just shows what money can do.
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