George W. Bush: “Thanks to the United States of America, young girls now go to school for the first time in their lives.”

Today, we remember your loss, we share your sorrow and we honor the men and women that you have loved so long and so well.

For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence—a time set apart.

Those who have lost their precious children are facing a grief no parents should ever know.

I hereby determine and report that it is important to the national interests of the United States to waive the prohibition of aforementioned section 671(a) with respect to Barbados, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Kenya, Mali…