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What Alvarez and scores of residents of her impoverished Havana neighborhood found at their doorstep was a pocket-size reprint of Bush's Jan. 20 inaugural address in which he vowed to free the world of tyranny. The speech and a second pamphlet containing the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights arrived anonymously in the dead of night and are part of an escalating U.S. government program to spur political change in this one-party state. For decades, the U.S. government's attempt to penetrate Cuba with information has had limited success. Cuban authorities routinely jam Radio and TV Marti, the anti-Castro broadcasts produced...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42698 Wednesday, February 2, 2005 THE STATE OF THE UNIONCommander in chief plots his courseTranscript of President Bush's speech to the nation Posted: February 2, 200510:35 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com As a new Congress gathers, all of us in the elected branches of government share a great privilege: we have been placed in office by the votes of the people we serve. And tonight that is a privilege we share with newly elected leaders of Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Ukraine, and a free...

FIRST: What do we expect?Bush received a lot of hostility from critics for his inaugural speech that had dozens of instances of "freedom" and "liberty" (30 to 17, IIRC). Will he use this same template for this speech, or pick a new path? I think he will go a new route, considering how the first speech was received by some (and considering that one usually doesn't make the same speech twice, the point is to set up the situation of the second speech by what you say in the first). CATEGORY ONE: Pick a word and take a drink every...