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02/03/2005:

"Women Provide Emotion at State of Union"

WASHINGTON - They met just before the speech began: the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq and the daughter of a man killed by Saddam Hussein's regime. They found some comfort in a spontaneous moment that electrified President Bush's State of the Union address.

The two women, both touched by death in Iraq, reached out for each other while lawmakers, military leaders, the president and the nation watched. Their locked embrace inspired the longest applause of the evening.
Full Article: yahoo.com.news

Well at least women are good for something in this great warmongering fest. We're supposed to cry and wave our handkerchiefs as our sons and husbands go off to the slaughterhouse. 'Spontaneous moment'-yeah right.