We set out at the beginning to try and improve, extend, broaden and deepen the US-India relationship because very early on the President (George W Bush) and I both saw it as an emerging, big democracy and the relationship's never been very close. 
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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West Ham United's Matthew Upson, right, vies for the ball with Blackburn Rovers' Keith Andrews, during their English Premier League soccer match at the Upton Park stadium, London, Saturday Aug. 30, 2008.
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Marvin Compper of TSG Hoffenheim reacts after his team's German Bundesliga soccer match against Bayer Leverkusen in Leverkusen August 30, 2008. Leverkusen won the match 5-2.
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Pakistani civil rights activists hold placards during an anti-US protest in Karachi on August 30, 2008. Global rights group Human Rights Watch urged Afghan officials to free the young son of Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently awaiting trial in the United States on charges of trying to kill US officials. Aafia Siddiqui, whose name is on a 2004 US list of suspects with links to Al Qaeda, was flown to the United States early this month, where she is currently in custody, accused of attempting to murder US officials who were sent to question her after her arrest by Afghan police.
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Pensacola Junior College cheerleaders rally the crowd before the arrival of Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at a campaign rally at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008.
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A Turkish soldier stands on a tank as it moves past a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, during a military parade on the 86th anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara, August 30, 2008. Tensions between Turkey's government and its powerful generals will continue clouding the future of the European Union-applicant country, after the new military commander warned against the rising profile of Islam.
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Marion Bartoli of France returns to Lindsay Davenport of the US at the US Open tennis tournament August 29, 2008 in Flushing Meadows, NY. Bartoli won the match 6-1, 7-6(3).
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Sebastien Loeb from France and co-driver Daniel Elena in the Citroen Total world Rally team in their Citroen C4 WRC during day two of the WRC Rally of New Zealand, in Hamilton on August 30, 2008.
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Quotes about George W. Bush
McCain is, y'know, another Bush in the sense we're getting another very detached, anti-intellectual president. There's a big vacuum when you have a president like that. ... I think when you get McCain you get the worst of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Old, forgetful, doddering, anti-intellectual.
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in Daily Kos
But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush
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in RedOrbit
Coverage of John Kerry’s acceptance speech in 2004 had 24.4 million viewers; coverage of George W. Bush’s convention speech that same year drew 27.5 million.
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