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Former U.S. House Speaker and one-time presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, spoke to a crowd of over 500 Republican supporters at a GOP Convention today in Missoula. "We should in fact speak well of our dreamer-in-chief. Now he can't run the economy, he ca't defend the country, he doesn't understand the Constitution, he surrounds himself with radicals who are out of touch with reality, but those are minor things," says Gingrich. "Just ask people, can they afford four more years of Barack Obama? I don't think ther's a town in this state that thinks that four more years of the pain...

President George W Bush has paid an emotional visit to soldiers maimed or badly burned in combat. His visit came as senior British military figures said the Armed Forces were 'paying the price in blood' for years of underfunding. During the President's visit to the new £30.7million Brooke Army Medical Centre for veterans Mr Bush vowed to modernize the military care system. "We have an outdated system that can bog down some of those recovering in a maze of bureaucracy," he said. "It's unacceptable to me as the commander in chief, it's unacceptable to the families of those who deserve...