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Patrick Cockburn: Can Obama turn rhetoric into the reality of peace with the Muslim world? The President’s bridge-building is welcome. But it will take more than words to erase the damage done by his predecessor
April 8, 2009 – 3:45 pm | No Comment
Patrick Cockburn: Can Obama turn rhetoric into the reality of peace with the Muslim world? The President’s bridge-building is welcome. But it will take more than words to erase the damage done by his predecessor

The start of the Iraq war in 2003 marked a crucial break between the US and almost all the states of the region. “None of Iraq’s neighbours, absolutely none, were pleased by the American occupation …

Obama reaches out to Muslims – President pleads for change in tone of dialogue with Islamic world, saying ‘there will never be war’
April 7, 2009 – 4:30 am | No Comment
Obama reaches out to Muslims – President pleads for change in tone of dialogue with Islamic world, saying ‘there will never be war’

Christi Parsons
Laura King
LOS ANGELES TIMES
ANKARA, Turkey – When President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the United States “is not, and will never be, at war with Islam,” he was talking to Turkey’s parliament. But his …