[applause] andel holy koran also says, whoever saves a person, is as if he has saved all mankind. [applause] the enduring faith of over a billion people is so much bigger than the narrow hatred of the few. islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism, it is an important part of promoting peace. now, we also know that military power alone is not going to solve the problems in afghanistan and pakistan. that is why we plan to invest $1.5 billion each year over the next five years to partner with pakistani's to build schools and hospitals, roads and businesses and hundreds of millions to help those who have been displaced. that is why we are providing more than $2.8 billion to help afghans develop their economy and deliver services that people depend on. now, let me also address the issue of iraq. bun like afghanistan, iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. although i believe that the iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of saddam hussein, i also believe that events in iraq have reminded am

businesses dropping bisphenol a and plastic products and canalizing san childrens toys and teeters andel samir gary. mercury does not ever seen to go away either in terms of the problems of exposure through fish and other sources, so if you could comment for example on the controversy with regulation with this venal a and also mercury. >> it is a fascinating subject to look at how the scientists develop. this is a chemical that may or may not cause-- it is not well study. we don't know how to study it yet. but it is the chemical were all exposed to the ports of more than 90% of musab bisphenol a macanack audit because the centers of disease control has the monitored program and it is seen in everyone's here in. we don't know how we are exposed to it although this and all these bottles and our babies are exposed to some allen perhaps it is leaching in from the bottles or had until recently, abyss colonol a. their hundreds of studies on bisphenol a and you can show that it causes harm in animals or doesn't. so the discussion is not so much does it cause harm in animals but which animals th

andel lowest tax rate other than zero was 20%. that is when he came into office. now, when you look at this kennedy cut the highest rate from 91% to 70% and cut the lowest rate from 20% to 14%. cut them all in the middle too but those of the two extremes. if you look to the percentage cut in the tax rate on the highest bracket it went from 91 to 70 so that is the 21 percentage point cut for do you divide 21 by 91 n.t. get a 23% cut in the rate. by cutting the lowest rate from 20% to 14% that is a six percentage point cut, 6% /20% is a 30% cut in the rate set up the highest rates by 23% at the lowest rates by 30%. the one thing you've got to understand in economics is people don't work to pay taxes. people could give a what the taxes are. they what they-- they worry about what they received that afterwards. the tax rate is not important. that the after-tax return that is important. but we take you to the after-tax return. let the guy was in the top bracket, for every dollar that i made he paid 91 cents in taxes and he was allowed to keep 9 cents. it was that 9 cent