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Bush thanks soldiers in rehearsed talk
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-14 20:21
A brief rehearsal ensued.
"OK, so let's just walk through this," Barber said. "Captain Kennedy, you
answer the first question and you hand the mike to whom?"
"Captain Smith," Kennedy said.
"Captain. Smith? You take the mike and you hand it to whom?" she asked.
"Captain Kennedy," the soldier replied.
And so it went.
"If the question comes up about partnering — how often do we train with the
Iraqi military — who does he go to?" Barber asked.
"That's going to go to Captain Pratt," one of the soldiers said.
"And then if we're going to talk a little bit about the folks in Tikrit — the
hometown — and how they're handling the political process, who are we going to
give that to?" she asked.
Before he took questions, Bush thanked the soldiers for serving and reassured
them that the U.S. would not pull out of Iraq until the mission was complete.
"So long as I'm the president, we're never going to back down, we're never
going to give in, we'll never accept anything less than total victory," Bush
said.
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