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President Bush attends a performance by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra Performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2003. "It's very interesting that the Iraqi Symphony is made up of people who are Shia and Sunni and Armenian and Kurdish," said the President of the Iraqi orchestra. "They work for one thing, and that is a unified sound, a beautiful sound. And that's the country that is now emerging in Iraq, a country that will work together and recognize everybody's rights."
President Bush attends a performance by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra Performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2003. "It's very interesting that the Iraqi Symphony is made up of people who are Shia and Sunni and Armenian and Kurdish," said the President of the Iraqi orchestra. "They work for one thing, and that is a unified sound, a beautiful sound. And that's the country that is now emerging in Iraq, a country that will work together and recognize everybody's rights."
 
President George W. Bush leaves for a secret mission to visit troops in Baghdad Nov. 26, 2003. The President is accompanied by Communications Director Dan Bartlett, far left, and Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Spending Thanksgiving with some of the troops serving in Iraq, President Bush greets his fellow diners in the Bob Hope Dining Facility in Baghdad Nov. 27, 2003. "Every day you see firsthand the commitment to sacrifice that the Iraqi people are making to secure their own freedom. I have a message for the Iraqi people: you have an opportunity to seize the moment and rebuild your great country, based on human dignity and freedom," said the President in his remarks to the troops.
After visiting with the troops, President Bush meets privately with members of the Iraqi Governing Council in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2003. After the capture of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush speaks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair during a phone call in the Oval Office, Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2003.
President Bush attends a performance by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra Performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2003. "It's very interesting that the Iraqi Symphony is made up of people who are Shia and Sunni and Armenian and Kurdish," said the President of the Iraqi orchestra. "They work for one thing, and that is a unified sound, a beautiful sound. And that's the country that is now emerging in Iraq, a country that will work together and recognize everybody's rights." President George W. Bush drops a tea hosted by Mrs. Bush for the Iraqi Minister of Education, Dr. Ala'din Alwan, (seated next Mrs. Bush) in the White House Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2004.
President Bush meets Iraqi Governing Council members Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, left, and Dr. Adnan Pachachi in the Oval Office Jan. 20, 2004. Mrs. Bush applauds her special guest, Dr. Adnan Pachachi, President of the Iraqi Governing Council, during President Bush's State of the Union Address at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004. "Sir, America stands with you and the Iraqi people as you build a free and peaceful nation," said the President in his acknowledgement of Dr. Pachachi.
President George W. Bush greets Dr. Raja Habib Khuzai of the Iraqi Governing Council after delivering remarks on Women's Human Rights in the East Room of the White House Friday, March 12, 2004. President George W. Bush meets with 25 Iraqi Fulbright Scholars in the Roosevelt Room Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004. Reestablished in October of 2003, the Fulbright Program offers its scholarship recipients the opportunity to study at American universities.
President George W. Bush talks alone with Presidential Envoy to Iraq Paul Bremer in the Oval Office Jan. 16, 2004. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush exit the East Room following the President's remarks commemorating the one-year anniversary of operation Iraqi Freedom and the efforts of his administration and 91 nations to ensure peace and stability in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Greater Middle East March 19, 2004.

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