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from Tales from the Trail:
Ahmadinejad says bin Laden in Washington
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has the answer to the question that has plagued the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.
He knows where Osama bin Laden is -- in Washington. 
In an interview with ABC'S "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad rejected reports that the al Qaeda leader was in Iran.
"I heard that Osama bin Laden is in the Washington, D.C.," Ahmadinejad said through an interpreter in a contentious give-and-take with his interviewer, George Stephanopoulos.
"He's there. Because he was a previous partner of Mr. Bush. They were colleagues in fact in the old days. You know that. They were in the oil business together. They worked together. Mr. Bin Laden never cooperated with Iran but he cooperated with Mr. Bush," Ahmadinejad said.
from Tales from the Trail:
Victory for Karzai, minefield for Obama?
Former President George W. Bush used to talk about the "soft bigotry of low expectations." He was talking about education in the United States.
But these days, that phrase could easily refer to the U.S. government's attitudes towards Afghanistan. Just look at the following phrases from American officials this year.
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