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Okay , I'm Major General Guy Swan and

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I'm the director of operations for the

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multinational force . Your hometown .

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My hometown is Arlington Virginia

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levels are good . Okay , so the first

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thing we like to know is why is it

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important to uh be educating these

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young young Children about , about the

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things that boy Scouts provide ?

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Absolutely , we're out here today with

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the victory based Council of Scouting

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here in in Iraq . And I can't think of

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a program more important to the future

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of this country than a program

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dedicated to the Children of Iraq .

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Answer back

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well , how does it make you feel this

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is a program that you just got to feel

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good about ? There's so many good

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things going on here in addition to the

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great time that the Children are having ,

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This is also a partnership between the

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Iraqi army and the U . S . Forces that

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are here in Iraq . Also , a lot of

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hometown organizations and Scout troops

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back in the States have donated

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equipment to the , to the council here ,

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uh , to help the Children have the

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kinds of tools they need to have a

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great events like this . And what do

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you think people on the stage ? I mean ,

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a lot of people would be surprised , I

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think were local in the work and I

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think it's still , you know , they

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think it's still really bad over here .

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What kind of message do you think this

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puts out to people back in the state ?

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Well , I think a program like this

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demonstrates that Iraq is moving

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forward and any time the Children can

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get out and play and learn

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demonstrates that security is getting

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better in the country and the

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opportunities for their citizens here

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in Iraq are growing every day . Um

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and just overall , if we could , um

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what do you think is uh the most

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beneficial thing for these Children ,

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working with the americans or whether

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it be the skills they're learning or

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the morals . I I think it's the skills

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and working as a team , working with

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the adult leaders that come from the

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Iraq side . Uh The most important thing

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is this , that this program be

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perpetuated after the american forces

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draw down in Iraq and in order to do

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that , the , the adult leaders here ,

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the Iraqi adult leaders need to pick up

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the ball and run with it and they are

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doing that . The programs already

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expanded beyond victory base to the

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green zone to balad . And I've just

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recently heard they've opened a council

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down in basra as well . Is there

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anything else in the other specific

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information that you want ? People , I

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think if people back in the States can

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support Scouting back in the States , I

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think that would be a huge step forward

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and the partnership that we've

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established with Scouting back in the

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States is only gonna benefit the

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Children of Iraq and Iraq in general ,

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questions