Rumsfeld visits Iraq and warns of corruption and delays in drafting the constitution. 
Bush says it is early to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
Conflicts over the division of authority in Lebanon creates a crisis that prevents the formation of the government.
As for editorial writers in Kuwait, they object to interference by the authorities in their freedom of expression.
Good day to you as always, news updates from Al Hurra.
The United States has not yet created a strategy to withdraw its troops from Iraq, but it will not stay there forever according to the American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during his surprise visit to the Iraqi territories, his ninth in two years.
Rumsfeld stressed that the withdrawal of American troops is subject to the ability of Iraqi troops to control security in the country again, reiterating his country's rejection of any delay in the Iraqi political process that includes drafting the constitution before the middle of this August. 
Rumsfeld also stressed that his country's mission provides for setting Iraq on the road to democracy, freedom and the formation of a representative government.
Iraqi President Jalal Talibani stressed to the American Secretary that the new Iraqi government will be formed before the end of this week.
On the World Today we also deal with the Hamas accusation that the Palestinian Authority is not serious about organizing internal Palestinian affairs and the Egyptian-Israeli conflict over the role of Egypt after Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the crisis in the formation of the Lebanese government due to conflicts over the division of authority.
We start with the visit of American Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq and Ali Al Yassi's report:
The surprise visit by the American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld comes at a time when military troops are launching widespread operations in various regions in Iraq to pursue those they describe as insurgents in addition to the reaffirmation and desire to check on the progress of the political process in the country, especially with rumors that the Iraqi security organs may undergo a comprehensive purging campaign by the new government.
The visit included a commitment by the United States to the success of the democratic process in the country.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari considered the issues of corruption and security as priorities for his government's program, 
and that rumors of a comprehensive purge of the security organs is exaggerated, and that the criteria that will be adopted in the selection of members of his government will be aptitude and diversity 
We believe that one advantage of the new government is that it is based on Iraqi diversity, and therefore we want to benefit from all our brothers and sisters who lived through the previous experience and who constitute, uh, the new, uh, Iraqi reality whether they are in Parliament or even outside Parliament. 
This is the reason the coalition stressed more than once that it does not want to look at Iraq and reduce Iraq's map to the Coalition's map, but rather it wants to go outside the Coalition's framework to Parliament and even outside Parliament to all the powers who have a monitoring role in the building process, building the Iraqi reality by embracing all these energies.
Perhaps the affirmation of the United State's commitment to supporting Iraq was one of the most prominent messages carried by Rumsfeld's visit to the country, and that the diversity in the political affiliations of the various Iraqi prime ministers will not change its position towards the country. 
Ali Al Yassi, Al Hurra, Baghdad.
President George Bush stressed the United State's commitment to helping the Iraqis assume their own affairs, and considered that the formation of the Iraqi government and equipping more Iraqi security forces constitute an important step towards achieving the aspirations of the Iraqi people.
President Bush spoke before a crowd of American soldiers at a military base in Fort Hood in the state of Texas on the second anniversary of the fall of the regime of the deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The terrorists made Iraq the main front in the war against terror, and as a result of your service and sacrifice we will defeat them there where they live so that we don't have to confront them where we live.
Thanks to you freedom is taking its course in Iraq. 
Our success there will make America safer for us and for future generations.
In the message of liberation to the Iraqi people I promised them that the government of Iraq and the future of your country will soon be yours and we will help you to create a safe government that protects the rights of all citizens, and then the American forces will leave.
The Iraqis have laid the foundations for a free society. There are hundreds of independent newspapers and tens of political parties and associations and schools that teach children to read and write instead of Saddam Hussein's propaganda.
The Iraqis have laid strong foundations for a democratic government. 
The world was watching how the Iraqis defied the car bombers and the murderers to vote in the first free democratic elections in the country in decades.

President Bush also stated that the Middle East region is witnessing important movements towards democratic reforms and the spread of freedoms, referring to the developments in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
President Bush stressed that these positive changes in the region enhance the security of the United States and global stability.

As democracy meets success in Iraq, this success sends a message from Beirut to Tehran that freedom can be the future of all nations.
The creation of a free Iraq in the heart of the Middle East constitutes a great defeat for the forces of terrorism and repression, and a turning point in the international democratic revolution.
In the past two years you have accomplished a lot but the work is not done yet, as freedom is still facing dangerous enemies.
The terrorists still want to attack our people, but they will lose the battle, because they are under constant pressure from our armed forces.
They will continue and they will lose because they are on the wrong side of history.