ABC News Special Report - 2006-11-30 - 3 a.m. (E) (partial)
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[0:00] host and a good neighbor
[0:03] and there was not part of our agenda a
[0:06] trilateral meeting. So there is no
[0:08] problem.
[0:13] >> Please
[0:17] network. Did you discuss with the
[0:19] president the Iranian influence that is
[0:22] expanding in Iraq
[0:24] [snorts] and how and the almost complete
[0:27] Iranian control over Baghdad as the uh
[0:31] press sources seems to indicate
[0:33] >> to ask you a question
[0:35] >> in Iraq did you broke this big wall
[0:38] between Iraq and Iranian so and are you
[0:43] going to to deal with I don't understand
[0:45] your first to deal with the Iranian
[0:47] directly Am
[0:49] I going to meet with the Iranians
[0:50] directly? Is that the question?
[0:51] >> And the question of Iraq? Yes.
[0:58] As far as the first question
[1:02] that was mentioned by the first question
[1:03] that was mentioned by the report, I
[1:05] think these are wrong and exaggerated
[1:07] information and are being used as one of
[1:10] the propaganda mechanisms to give the
[1:14] impression of sectarian strife so that
[1:18] we reach a point of a bad point of no
[1:21] return because we want to emphasize that
[1:23] we will not to allow anybody to exert
[1:26] their control over any part of Iraq. If
[1:29] there's any talk about intervention in
[1:30] Iraq
[1:33] and all the discussion, all the talks
[1:35] about people or other nations exerting
[1:37] control over Iraq, this is not true.
[1:40] This is a political process in Iraq. We
[1:43] want good relationships with our
[1:44] neighbors. We want complimentary
[1:47] relationships with our neighbors to pro
[1:49] to protect the region from tensions. But
[1:52] the main principle underlying all these
[1:55] is the respect of the Iraqi borders and
[2:00] the internal affairs of Iraq.
[2:07] >> Fear democracy democracy
[2:10] >> and that's why they destabilize
[2:11] >> and that's why they destabilize Lebanon
[2:14] >> uh Lebanon.
[2:17] Uh that's why they
[2:19] are worried about the establishment of a
[2:21] Palestinian state.
[2:25] Uh I
[2:27] appreciate the prime minister's views
[2:30] that the Iraqis are plenty capable of
[2:32] running their own business and they
[2:33] don't need foreign interference from
[2:34] neighbors that will be destabilizing the
[2:37] country.
[2:39] I am very worried as should the world
[2:42] about Iran's desires to have a nuclear
[2:44] weapon.
[2:47] and therefore will continue to work
[2:50] with the world to send a clear message
[2:53] to the Iranians, the Iranian government
[2:56] that uh that we will um you know they'll
[3:01] become more isolated. And my message to
[3:03] the Iranian people is we have
[3:06] no beef with the Iranian people. We
[3:08] respect their heritage. We respect their
[3:10] history. We respect their traditions. I
[3:13] just have a problem with a government
[3:16] that is isolating its people, denying
[3:18] its people benefits that could be had
[3:21] from engagement with the world.
[3:23] It's uh and I told the prime minister
[3:26] we'll continue to work to with the world
[3:29] community to to insist that Iran abandon
[3:32] its nuclear weapons programs and I have
[3:35] said that if they were to verifiably
[3:38] suspend their enrichment program, we
[3:40] would be a part of the EU3 plus Russia
[3:42] plus China discussions. They know how to
[3:44] get us to the table. The choice is
[3:46] theirs to make. It's the choice of the
[3:48] Iranian government as to whether or not
[3:52] they make uh make the right decisions
[3:55] for not only uh the sake of diplomacy,
[3:58] but for the sake more importantly for
[3:59] the sake of their people. Uh we might as
[4:02] well keep going. Prime Minister Richard,
[4:06] >> thank you.
[4:07] >> Please, sir. Please.
[4:09] >> Thank you.
[4:10] uh when we were in Baghdad 6 months ago,
[4:13] you expressed the same kind of
[4:14] confidence in the prime minister and his
[4:16] government that you've expressed today.
[4:17] Yet there have been repeated rounds of
[4:19] disappointments when it comes to the
[4:21] prime minister's Baghdad security plan
[4:24] uh with his plans for reconciliation.
[4:26] I'm wondering if anything I if you've
[4:29] had any doubts over the last six months
[4:31] about the strength of his government,
[4:33] about the prime minister's own abilities
[4:35] and and what gives you such confidence
[4:37] today to think that he can achieve what
[4:38] he hasn't done over the last 6 months.
[4:40] >> Yeah. Well, as you mentioned, he's been
[4:42] in he's been in power for 6 months
[4:45] and uh I've been able to watch a uh a
[4:48] leader emerge.
[4:51] The first thing that gives me confidence
[4:52] is that he wants responsibility.
[4:55] The sign of leadership is for somebody
[4:57] to say, "I want to be able to have the
[4:59] tools necessary to protect my people."
[5:01] One of his frustrations with me is that
[5:05] he believes we've been slow about giving
[5:07] him the tools necessary to protect the
[5:08] Iraqi people.
[5:11] And uh uh today we had a meeting that
[5:15] will accelerate the capacity for the uh
[5:18] prime minister to do the hard work
[5:20] necessary to to help stop this violence.
[5:23] No question. and it's it's it's a
[5:25] violent society right now. He knows that
[5:28] better than anybody.
[5:31] He was explaining to me that
[5:32] occasionally the house in which he lives
[5:34] gets shelled
[5:36] by terrorists who are trying to frighten
[5:38] him. And so the second point I make to
[5:40] you is that I I I appreciate his
[5:42] courage. You can't lead unless you have
[5:44] courage.
[5:45] And he's got courage and he's shown
[5:47] courage over the last six months.
[5:50] Thirdly, he has expressed a deep desire
[5:52] to unify his country. [clears throat]
[5:55] You hear all kinds of rumors about the
[5:58] politics inside of Iraq. I'm talking to
[6:00] the man face to face and he says that he
[6:04] understands that a unified government, a
[6:06] pluralistic society is important for
[6:08] success
[6:10] and he's making hard decisions to
[6:12] achieve that. No question has been
[6:14] tough. It would have been a lot easier
[6:17] had people uh not tried to destabilize
[6:19] the young democracy.
[6:21] His job would have been more simple had
[6:24] there not been terrorists
[6:27] trying to create sectarian violence. Now
[6:31] I want everybody to remember that it was
[6:34] Mr. Zarqawi of al-Qaeda who said let us
[6:37] bomb
[6:39] Shia in order to create the conditions
[6:42] necessary for sectarian violence.
[6:45] The Samar bombing started off this new
[6:47] phase of violence.
[6:50] The prime minister comes in about
[6:51] halfway through that phase in order to,
[6:54] you know, he he'd been selected and now
[6:57] he's dealing with, you know, a serious
[7:00] situation on the ground.
[7:02] And what I appreciate is his uh his
[7:06] attitude
[7:08] as opposed to saying, "America, you go
[7:10] solve the problem." We have a prime
[7:13] minister who's saying stop holding me
[7:15] back. I want to solve the problem.
[7:19] And the meeting today was to accelerate
[7:22] his capacity to do so.
[7:25] It's not easy for a military to evolve
[7:28] from ground zero.
[7:30] And I appreciate our forces and I
[7:33] appreciate General Casey who've worked
[7:35] very hard to train the Iraqis so that
[7:38] they become a capable fighting force as
[7:41] well as a unifying element for Iraq.
[7:44] But it's one thing to put people in
[7:45] uniform and another thing to have clear
[7:48] command structure or the capacity to
[7:50] move troops from point A to point B or
[7:53] the capacity to make sure that the troop
[7:55] carrier from point A to point B has got
[7:58] the necessary air in its tires or oil in
[8:00] its engine. In other words, this is a
[8:02] sophisticated operation to get a
[8:05] unifying army stood up.
[8:07] And one of the reasons I appreciate the
[8:09] prime minister is that he on the one
[8:12] hand sees that it's a sophisticated
[8:14] operation to get a military up from
[8:16] zero. But on the other hand is
[8:17] frustrated by the pace.
[8:20] And the reason why he's frustrated is
[8:22] because he wants to show the people who
[8:24] elected him that he is willing to take
[8:27] the hard tasks on necessary to provide
[8:29] security for the Iraqi people,
[8:32] such as hunting down those who are
[8:34] killing the innocent.
[8:36] And the reason I came today to be able
[8:38] to sit down with him is to hear the
[8:41] joint plans developed between the Iraqi
[8:44] government, the sovereign government of
[8:46] Iraq and our government to make sure
[8:49] that we accelerate the transfer of
[8:52] capacity to the prime minister.
[8:55] And uh I know he's looking forward to
[8:58] more capacity being transferred so he
[9:00] can do his job. Anyway, I he's the right
[9:02] guy for Iraq
[9:05] and we're going to help him and it's in
[9:07] our interest to help him for the sake of
[9:10] peace.
[9:19] You're
[9:19] >> a
[9:21] Uhhuh.
[9:23] What you advise
[9:28] Abu Maz
[9:30] to keep this new ceasefire agreement and
[9:35] what should be done within
[9:38] disagree with
[9:39] >> well first of all
[9:40] >> well first of all there's no question
[9:42] that um
[9:45] if we were able to settle the
[9:46] Palestinian Israeli issue it would help
[9:50] bring more peace to the Middle East
[9:53] and therefore our government is focused
[9:55] on helping to develop the two-state
[9:58] solution.
[10:00] Matter of fact, I was the our government
[10:03] strongly believes in the two-state
[10:05] solution and I believe it's in the
[10:06] Palestinian people's interest that they
[10:08] have their own state and I believe it's
[10:10] in Israel's interest that there be a
[10:13] democracy on our border and therefore
[10:16] we're working to that end. the um look,
[10:20] there are extremists who want to stop
[10:22] the development of a Palestinian state,
[10:25] just like there are extremists who want
[10:27] to destabilize Lebanon. And we're
[10:29] strongly in support of the Sonora
[10:31] government, just like there are
[10:32] extremists who want to destabilize this
[10:34] young democracy. Isn't it interesting
[10:36] that the radicals and extremists fear
[10:39] democracy so much that they're willing
[10:40] to kill innocent people? And the task at
[10:43] hand is to support moderate, reasonable
[10:47] people in their quest for free
[10:49] societies. And that means that Abu
[10:51] Mazin, who I believe wants there to be a
[10:54] Palestinian state living side by side
[10:56] with peace in Israel, deserves the
[10:58] support of the world. and he deserves
[11:00] support in peeling his government away
[11:02] from those who do not recognize Israel's
[11:05] right to exist. And therefore, Condisa
[11:07] Rice will be going to talk to Abu Mazin
[11:10] uh tomorrow as well as Prime Minister
[11:12] Omar, working with both parties together
[11:15] to see how we can advance the vision
[11:17] that the prime minister himself talked
[11:19] about earlier this week.
[11:23] >> My my advice is support reasonable
[11:26] people and reject extremists.
[11:29] understand that most people want to live
[11:31] in peace and harmony and security. It's
[11:35] very important for the American people
[11:36] to understand that most Muslim mothers
[11:40] want their children to grow up in peace
[11:42] and they're interested in peace. And
[11:44] it's in our interest to help liberty
[11:47] prevail in the Middle East, starting
[11:48] with Iraq. And that's why this business
[11:50] about graceful exit just simply has no
[11:53] realism to it at all. We're going to
[11:55] help this government. And I'm able to
[11:58] say that it is that we have a government
[12:00] that wants our help and is becoming more
[12:03] capable about taking the lead in the
[12:05] fight to protect our own country. The
[12:07] only way that Iraq is going to be able
[12:08] to succeed is when the Iraqis
[12:11] led by a capable person says we're tired
[12:14] of it. We don't want violence. We want
[12:17] the peace that our 12 million people
[12:19] voted for and it's in the world's
[12:22] interest that Iraq succeed.
[12:25] Mr. Prime Minister, you want to answer
[12:26] some more questions?
[12:30] >> You want more? Go ahead.
[12:32] >> Hold on for a minute. Hold on for a
[12:33] minute.
[12:38] >> Sixth question. No, this is the seventh
[12:39] and this is the eighth. Eighth
[12:41] questions,
[12:44] >> Mr. President,
[12:47] so to speak. You know
[12:49] >> which one, Mr. Prime Minister, would you
[12:50] mind calling on one of your press?
[12:54] >> Yeah, this guy. Okay.
[12:58] In light of the war that the United
[13:00] States is fighting against terror in
[13:02] Iraq, what has been accomplished? What
[13:03] do you expect to be accomplished after
[13:06] three-year confrontation? Another
[13:08] question. Other people are accusing
[13:11] United States of bringing terrorism to
[13:13] Iraq.
[13:15] And the proof is that what's going on in
[13:17] Iraq and what's going on in Afghanistan,
[13:18] the proof is that and and what's the
[13:21] biggest loser is the Iraqi citizen.
[13:24] >> That's an interesting analysis. The
[13:26] biggest loser for a free society is the
[13:28] Iraqi citizen when this society was just
[13:31] uh liberated from the uh grips of a a
[13:34] brutal tyrant that killed thousands and
[13:37] thousands of the Iraqi citizens. Uh I I
[13:40] I what has been accomplished is the
[13:43] liberation of a country from a tyrant
[13:47] who is now sitting in jail getting a
[13:50] trial that he was unwilling to give
[13:52] thousands of people he murdered himself
[13:54] or had murdered. Secondly, a this
[13:57] country has a constitution which is one
[13:59] of the most modern constitutions ever
[14:01] written in the Middle East. Uh this is a
[14:03] government that has been elected by the
[14:05] people. No question it's tough. But the
[14:08] reason why terrorists are trying to stop
[14:11] uh the advance of freedom in Iraq is the
[14:15] very reason why we need to help them
[14:18] because they can't stand democracies and
[14:20] they want to impose a hateful vision
[14:23] on as much of the world as possible.
[14:26] They want safe haven from which to
[14:28] launch attacks again. A safe haven in
[14:31] Iraq, a country that has got a lot of
[14:33] resources, would be very dangerous for
[14:35] America.
[14:37] It didn't take but 19 people who were
[14:40] trained in Afghanistan to get on
[14:43] airplanes and come and kill over 3,000
[14:46] citizens in my country.
[14:49] Threats that gather overseas must be
[14:52] taken seriously
[14:54] if we want to protect ourselves. And the
[14:56] best way to protect ourselves is to hunt
[14:59] down the terrorists and to help young
[15:01] democracy survive.
[15:04] Freedom and liberty is the great
[15:06] alternative to the hateful vision of
[15:09] those who are willing to murder innocent
[15:10] lives to achieve their objective.
[15:14] And so, you bet it's worth it in Iraq
[15:16] and necessary. And I was very proud and
[15:19] pleased to see 12 million Iraqis go to
[15:22] the polls
[15:24] to be able to express their desires,
[15:27] their wishes
[15:29] as they helped put a government in place
[15:33] now leads.
[15:38] >> Thank you very much.
[15:43] >> Thank you all. Good to see you. So,
[15:46] President Bush and Prime Minister Nuriel
[15:48] Maliki of Iraq, they're shaking hands
[15:50] after a press conference which amounted
[15:53] to a very strong vote of confidence by
[15:56] President Bush for this bleaguered Iraqi
[15:59] leader uh the leader of a nation at war
[16:02] with itself, a civil war by any measure
[16:05] really. President Bush calling him a
[16:07] strong leader who wants a free and
[16:08] democratic Iraq to succeed. And more
[16:10] informally, President Bush said he's the
[16:13] right guy for Iraq and we're going to
[16:15] help. And there were a couple of
[16:16] headlines out of this. First, President
[16:19] Bush said that this meeting essentially
[16:21] increased Prime Minister Maliki's power,
[16:24] his uh capabilities, his authorities, he
[16:27] kept saying it, to fight the war. One of
[16:28] the complaints the prime minister has
[16:30] had is he can't control his own army. It
[16:32] sounds like he will be able to give more
[16:34] orders on the battlefield. Both men came
[16:37] out strongly against any partition, any
[16:39] splitting up uh of Iraq. Uh and they
[16:42] both said that Iraq uh would essentially
[16:45] be for Iraqis, that there should be no
[16:47] meddling by uh neighboring countries.
[16:49] Let's go right now to Terry McCarthy,
[16:52] ABC's Terry McCarthy, our lead reporter
[16:54] in Baghdad, who's in Aman right now.
[16:56] Terry, you know, Prime Minister Al
[16:58] Maliki and you know Iraq as well. We
[17:01] heard a lot about uh reconciliation,
[17:04] about taking on the criminals. I just
[17:07] wonder how much of what you heard from
[17:09] these two leaders, how much does it bear
[17:11] on the reality of Iraq as you see it and
[17:14] experience when you report in Baghdad?
[17:18] Well, of course, the uh the main thing
[17:20] that came out of this press conference
[17:21] from Maliki's perspective is a
[17:23] commitment uh by President Bush to
[17:26] accelerate the handing over of security
[17:28] responsibilities to the Iraqi forces to
[17:30] the prime minister himself. And that of
[17:32] course is something that he has been
[17:33] saying for some time that for as as long
[17:35] as the United States is the primary lead
[17:38] in uh supplying security in Iraq, that
[17:40] actually makes the the problems worse,
[17:42] not not better. So, he would like to see
[17:44] uh more security uh responsibility on
[17:47] the Iraqi side, which would in his eyes
[17:49] at least take the heat out of the
[17:51] insurgency, take the heat out of the uh
[17:53] the problems his government is facing.
[17:54] Terry,
[17:56] >> and we're joined also by Martha Ratitz
[17:58] on the phone, who you heard her ask a
[18:00] question of the president of the United
[18:01] States. Martha, I want to ask you, uh,
[18:03] there's a lot of talk in Washington,
[18:05] around the country, uh, that the
[18:06] president after the November elections
[18:09] will be forced to set some kind of
[18:12] horizon in the Iraq war, tell the
[18:14] American people that he has a vision of
[18:16] the troops coming home. We didn't hear
[18:18] that from him in there at all.
[18:20] >> We certainly didn't hear that. And he
[18:22] said very strongly he was he had no
[18:24] plans to bring the troops home. He was
[18:27] setting no kinds of goals for Maliki. He
[18:30] said the goal is for them to get these
[18:32] Iraqi security forces working and up and
[18:35] moving as soon as possible. And that's
[18:37] all he kept saying over and over. Terry,
[18:39] in fact, I didn't think there was very
[18:41] much new in what they announced at all.
[18:43] We already knew about the Iraqi security
[18:45] forces and both wanted to accelerate uh
[18:48] the Iraqi security forces and the
[18:50] training and the equipping. And what he
[18:51] was talking about there was logistic
[18:53] support. Uh that's one of the things the
[18:55] Iraqi security forces have suffered
[18:56] from. they have not been able to go from
[18:58] one place to another without the help of
[19:00] US troops. I was also surprised that he
[19:02] said that US troops should be involved
[19:05] in sectarian violence, should be
[19:07] involved in separating these sides.
[19:10] >> There's a lot of question Martha as you
[19:12] know about the capabilities of those
[19:13] Iraqi troops. A lot of people think they
[19:15] simply are not ready for the task. But
[19:17] it sounds as if Prime Minister Maliki is
[19:20] going to get charge of them and send
[19:21] them into the fight if they'll go. Let's
[19:24] go to Baghdad now. Hillary Brown is
[19:26] there for us right now. And Hillary, I
[19:28] want to ask you as you listened and
[19:29] watched this press conference, you know,
[19:30] here in America, there was so much
[19:32] anticipation for this meeting as if
[19:34] something significant, a big change
[19:37] would come out of it. What's the feeling
[19:39] about this summit in Baghdad? And how do
[19:41] you sense the relationship between what
[19:44] we heard from these leaders and the
[19:46] reality on the streets there?
[19:50] >> Well, here in Baghdad, there wasn't a
[19:52] great deal of uh expectation. I mean
[19:55] there were no high hopes for the uh uh
[19:57] you know for this summit and of course
[19:59] as we know the um the Saturn block which
[20:01] is a very powerful political block in
[20:03] Mali's own government has suspended its
[20:05] participation uh because Maliki went uh
[20:09] the Shi want a timetable for US
[20:12] withdrawal and they want it now but on
[20:14] this question of the militias which came
[20:16] up in the news conference it's important
[20:19] I think for people to understand that it
[20:21] is very difficult for Maliki to crack
[20:24] down on the militias, notably the Matei
[20:26] army, because the Matei army is the
[20:28] military wing of the Solder Party, which
[20:32] is one of the most important parties in
[20:34] government and is a a crucial part of
[20:36] his own political base. And how is he
[20:40] going to take on the Mady Army? By the
[20:42] estimates are that it numbers now about
[20:44] 40,000 men, maybe maybe even as many as
[20:47] 60,000. Now, that is about five times
[20:49] the number of combat ready Iraqi troops
[20:53] now on the ground. So, what's left? Uh
[20:56] the police. Well, the police are
[20:57] notoriously infiltrated by the Shia
[21:00] militia. So, it's it's a kind of mission
[21:02] impossible for him.
[21:05] >> A private army there that he is expected
[21:08] to crack down on by President Bush.
[21:10] Let's go back to Terry McCarthy for a
[21:11] moment. You know, Terry, uh, President
[21:14] Bush just said that Nurio Maliki is the
[21:16] right guy for Iraq and that the United
[21:19] States would help him. And one of the
[21:20] things the United States is now
[21:22] expecting is that there will be some
[21:24] grand political bargain, some way of
[21:27] bringing all the waring parties together
[21:30] into a unity government, a political
[21:32] solution here. Is Al Maliki the guy to
[21:35] do that?
[21:38] That's of course the big question. And
[21:39] of course the uh leaked uh memo from
[21:42] Steven Hadley yesterday raised that
[21:44] question a new the American uh
[21:46] administration is is saying in public of
[21:48] Maliki is their man. But in private
[21:50] clearly they're having doubts and of
[21:52] course Maliki is uh is very nervous that
[21:54] he would be dropped by the Americans.
[21:56] That's why it was so important for him
[21:57] to get this endorsement by President
[21:59] Bush today. But behind the scenes
[22:01] clearly they're having very tough
[22:02] discussions and Maliki is not very
[22:04] happy. He's not happy that the sadder
[22:06] block pulled out of his government. He's
[22:07] also unhappy that this memo was released
[22:09] and he may be his position may be in
[22:11] jeopardy. Terry,
[22:12] >> right? Something of a contrast between
[22:14] the public and and private view of
[22:16] Maliki by the American government.
[22:18] Charlie Gibson, ABC News anchor of World
[22:21] News, is on the phone with us. He was in
[22:22] the room there. Charlie, I wonder uh
[22:24] what you make of the president's vote of
[22:26] confidence for the belleaguered Mr.
[22:29] Maliki.
[22:30] >> Well, it's interesting to what extent it
[22:32] was a an expression of confidence. They
[22:34] talked about adjustments. The president
[22:36] used that word adjustments of US
[22:38] strategy. He also talked about
[22:40] acceleration of of hurrying
[22:42] responsibility or greater transfer of
[22:45] responsibility to the Iraqi unity
[22:47] government. Um but there really I
[22:50] thought was sort of less than meets the
[22:51] eye out of this. You get some sense uh
[22:54] um that not a whole lot was achieved in
[22:56] that meeting. It's difficult to tell. we
[22:57] weren't a fly on the wall in that
[22:59] meeting itself. But uh uh other than the
[23:01] president's talk about adjustments and
[23:02] about acceleration, I don't think there
[23:04] was an awful lot that came out of this.
[23:06] Uh the president did say uh this talk of
[23:09] a graceful exit is just uh not real. And
[23:12] uh that was an endorsement. And I guess
[23:14] if you take anything out of this, it is
[23:16] uh um that while we wait for commissions
[23:19] and while we wait for various study
[23:21] groups to report on uh their feelings of
[23:24] what ought to be changed that uh the
[23:25] president doesn't envision much change,
[23:28] at least from what he said today.
[23:30] >> Absolutely. The bottom line that we
[23:32] heard from President Bush today did not
[23:35] differ that much from what he's been
[23:36] saying for a long time. He said, "The
[23:38] United States will stay in Iraq until
[23:39] the job is done, as long as the Iraqi
[23:42] government wants us there." One headline
[23:44] once again may be that it seems as if
[23:47] the Iraqi government will now have more
[23:48] control over the battlefield, the
[23:50] accelerating of authorities, as the
[23:52] president called it, command over Iraqi
[23:54] troops uh in the war, the civil war in
[23:58] Iraq. We're going to return now to our
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[24:04] Iraq. And in the meantime, you can
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[24:12] Morning America. I'm Terry Moran. Good
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