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"We are all part of a great venture: to extend the promise of freedom in our country, to renew the values that sustain our liberty, and to spread the peace that freedom brings."
GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in last week's State of the Union address

"You can see the finger with which he voted. He's a martyr now."
SALIM YACOUBI, Najaf resident, whose brother, 37-year-old Naim Rahim Yacoubi, was one of more than 50 voters killed on election day in Iraq

"I submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that...