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Contributed by Paul Ford
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President George W. Bush gave a radio address for Memorial Day weekend, invoking the sacrifice of 4,071 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and 432 in Afghanistan. Later, for the last time in his capacity as President, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
AP
Bloomberg.com
Ten thousand Iraqi troops met little resistance as they took control of Mahdi Army-controlled Sadr City under the terms of a cease-fire agreement.
Oil rose above $130 a barrel,
AP
and Barack Obama won the Democratic primary in Oregon, while Hillary Clinton won in Kentucky.
CNNPolitics.com
Clinton insisted that her candidacy was still viable. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?" she offered. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."
The New York Post
Obama gave the commencement address at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. "You know that feeling when you're so excited you have to pee?" asked Lola Pellegrino, '08. "I'm feeling that. In my heart." Obama, who spoke in place of Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy was diagnosed with a likely fatal malignant brain tumor, called for a "generation of volunteers to work on renewable energy projects." Twenty-five thousand people attended. "I can't imagine anyone that the Wesleyan student body would possibly be more excited about," said Sarah Lonning, '06. "Maybe Gandhi, if he weren't dead."
The Prereq
Bloomberg.com
In Afghanistan, at Chaghcharan Airfield in Ghor, two civilians and a Lithuanian soldier were killed in protests over the shooting of a Koran in Iraq,.
CNN.com
and Lebanese factions met in Qatar and gave Hezbollah veto power in Lebanon's new national unity cabinet. It was, said a U.S. State Department representative, "really a welcome development."
BBC News
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