President Bush Welcomes President Bachelet of Chile (VIDEO)

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President Bush Welcomes President Bachelet of Chile to the White House FULL STREAMING VIDEO, The Oval Office 11:50 A.M. EDT Joint Statement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Chile and In Focus: Global Diplomacy

President George W. Bush welcomes President Michelle Bachelet of Chile to the Oval Office Thursday, June 8, 2006. White House photo by Kimberlee Hewitt.

PRESIDENT BUSH: It is such an honor for me to welcome to the Oval Office the President of Chile. Madam President, welcome.

PRESIDENT BACHELET: Thank you.

PRESIDENT BUSH: I was told ahead of time that I was to meet a very charming person, and my briefers were right. I appreciate very much your dedication to values that are important -- human rights and human decency, the right for people to be able to speak freely and to vote. I admire your personal story. I also thought it was very interesting that the President, before she came to see me, went by a middle school where she had been educated. It shows that she's dedicated to education and the welfare of the people.

I assured her that the United States of America shares her same sense of social justice, and that our desire is to help, when we can, people to become educated so they can realize their dreams.

We talked about the neighborhood. She shared with me her strategy to encourage there to be peaceful development and prosperous development. I assured the President I'm very interested in her points of view. I look forward to working with you. The neighborhood is very important to the United States of America; it's very important for our country to be engaged and working with friends and allies to help others. So I've been looking forward to this meeting for quite a while. We've got very good relations with Chile, and I intend to keep them that way.

And Madam President, you're welcome, I'm really glad you're here.

PRESIDENT BACHELET: Thank you, Mr. President. I am very glad to be here and as President Bush has said, Chile and the United States have very good relationships and we'll continue that way. And we have political, commercial relationships, and we really are happy of how our relations have developed. And we have talked and shared opinions about how we can build peace, how can we fight together against poverty, for social justice, how we can help strengthen democracy in the region. And how we also can look at issues as energy innovation, education, health and so on.

It's for me an honor to be here. After I lived here as a child, and then as an adult, it's always for me a wonderful possibility to be in a country where I have learned to love the American people, where I learned to -- some experiences as how you can live in a country with different cultures, traditions, the different ethnic groups, and that's possible, and how you can integrate. And we want to integrate more in the region, we want to continue developing the best relationships with the United States, with the government and we hope we succeed in this covenant.

Thank you, Mr. President.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you, appreciate it.

END 11:54 A.M. EDT, For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, June 8, 2006

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President Bush Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq

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President Bush Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq, Meets with Prime Minister Maliki in Baghdad Via Videoconference with Camp David Participants, 10:36 A.M. EDT In Focus: Renewal in Iraq President George W. Bush walks with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Tuesday, June 13, 2006, at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. During his unannounced trip to Iraq, President Bush thanked the Prime Minister, telling him,

"I'm convinced you will succeed, and so will the world." White House photo by Eric Draper.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for this opportunity to visit with your cabinet. I have expressed our country's desire to work with you, but I appreciate you recognizing the fact that the future of this country is in your hands. The decisions you and your cabinet make will be determinate as to whether or not a country succeeds that can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself. I'm impressed by the cabinet that you've assembled. You've assembled people from all parts of your country, representing the different religions and the different histories and traditions.

And yet the cabinet here represents the entire Iraqi people, and I appreciate your commitment to representing the people of Iraq. I'm impressed by the strength of your character and your desire to succeed. And I'm impressed by your strategy. We've discussed -- I discussed earlier with the Prime Minister and here with his cabinet and with members of my Cabinet the strategy necessary to have a country that is capable of answering to the needs of the people.

We discussed the security strategy. We discussed an economic strategy, a reconstruction strategy. And all of it makes sense to me. And so I've come to not only look you in the eye, I've also come to tell you that when America gives its word, it will keep its word; that it's in our interests that Iraq succeed. It's not only in the interests of the Iraqi people, it's in the interests of the American people and for people who love freedom.

Iraq is a part of the war on terror. Iraq is a central front on that war, and when Iraq succeeds in having a government of and by and for the people of Iraq, you will have dealt a serious blow to those who have a vision of darkness, who don't believe in liberty, who are willing to kill the innocent in order to achieve a political objective.

And so, Mr. Prime minister, I want to thank you for giving me and my Cabinet a chance to hear from you personally and a chance to meet the members of this team you've assembled. It's an impressive group of men and women, and if given the right help, I'm convinced you will succeed, and so will the world.

END 10:39 A.M. EDT, For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, June 13, 2006

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