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President Bush Speaks in Minnesota; Winning Hearts & Minds in Iraq
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Live now to Rochester, Minnesota, the president of the United States stumping for votes there with supporters, talking about economy and healthcare. We're going to take a portion of what he's saying. Earlier today, course, we heard from John Kerry, stumping in Mason City, Iowa, talking security. Let's listen to president now.
(JOINED IN PROGRESS)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ... to make it hard for small businesses to be able to afford insurance and then running good doctors out of practice. You cannot be pro-doctor, pro- patient and pro-trial lawyer at the same time.
(APPLAUSE)
You have to choose. You have to choose. My opponent made his choice, and he put a personal injury trial lawyer on the ticket.
I made my choice. I am standing with our doctors and our patients. I support medical liability reform now.
(APPLAUSE)
Two other ways to address the cost of healthcare. One is speed up generic drugs to the market. Plus, I support the Minnesota congressmen, the senator's idea of importation of drugs from Canada, so long as it's safe. We want you to take drugs that cure you, not harm you.
I have a duty. It's easy for some in Congress to be calling for importation. I'm just going to make sure before they come in we know exactly what we're importing. You want to make sure that which comes in from Canada is actually manufactured in Canada. You don't want to be buying something from a third world country, and so we want to be safe. We want to make sure we do the right thing.
And fourthly, medicine, in all due respect, is like going back to the horse and buggy days when it comes to the use of information technology. I mean, you know, a lot of files that are handwritten still, and you can't even read a doctor's writing most of the time. So I believe in electronic medical records. I know we need to have a common language all across the medical field. They estimate that over 20 to 30 percent of the cost can be rung out of the system with the proper use of information technology. It's exciting new era available for medicine. You just need a president who understands how to address the root causes of costs going up, and that's how you avoid federalizing healthcare, and that's how you put in place common sense policies that makes sure the decisions are always made by doctor and patient, not by officials in our nation's capital.
(APPLAUSE)
A couple of other points I want to make very quickly.
I'm kind of getting wound up here. You notice the temperature in the room is rising.
What education is vital to make sure that we have a hopeful America. The No Child Left Behind Act we passed is a great piece of legislation. It challenges the soft bigotry of low expectations. It increases federal spending, but in return it says, show us, measure, and let us know whether a child can read and write, and add and subtract, and we have to find that out early. We can not have a system that simply shuffles kid through the system and hope we get it right; we need to know if we're getting it right.
You can't solve a problem unless you diagnose it, and now we're diagnosing problems early. We're providing extra money for at-risk students and students who need extra help, and there's an achievement gap closing in America, and it's vital. You know how we know, we measure? We can determine whether a child can read. And the reading scores are going up for kids that have generally been shuffled through the school system, and we're not going to go back to the days of mediocrity and low standards. We're making progress, and America's better off for it.
(APPLAUSE)
So we're going talk about education today. See, one of the things we have to make sure that education is not only strong for our kids; we have to make sure education is available for all our citizens, because in a changing world, and the world is changing, the jobs of the 21st century oftentimes require a new skillset. For those of you involved with medicine, know exactly what I'm talking about. Medicine's changing, and there constantly needs to be an upgrading of skills, and a great place to do that and a wonderful way to make sure people have got the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century is through our community college system. I'm a big backer of the community college system, and we're going to talk to a community college student here today about what it means to go back to school!
PHILLIPS: President Bush talking about education, the economy, healthcare, there in Rochester, Minnesota.
Next he'll be moving on to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he'll be participating in another open forum like this, focusing -- it's called the Focus Even With President Bush. He'll be talking more about farm issues and small business there in Wisconsin.
John Kerry, as we told you, was in Iowa earlier today, talking about security. He's on his way now to Pennsylvania once again to stump for votes there. So, obviously, both candidates on the campaign trail, working the supporters.
Post-war Iraq is a confusing place for the people who live there. It is sometimes hard to tell the good guys from the bad ones. This makes the U.S. mission of rebuilding the country very complicated indeed.
CNN's Baghdad bureau chief Jane Arraf is there.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): A year and a half after the end of the war there are few Americans talking about winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis. Now they're just trying to earn their trust. Soldiers still throw candy to children, even from helicopters, and they value friendly waves from townspeople.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now somebody sees someone throwing rocks at us. They usually try to drop two bags of toys or candy. They won't do it the next time.
ARRAF: But the U.S. military's mission here is more complex than anyone bargained for in an environment more hostile than anyone expected. Increasingly, they're aiming at more tangible goals.
LT. COL. STEVE BULLMORE, U.S. ARMY: Can we have trust and confidence in each other Iraqis and us and us and Iraqis? I would think that that's far easier than being of the same heart and of the same mind.
ARRAF: Walid Farid Abdul-Salam, chief of police in Diyala in the Sunni Triangle, says trust between military commanders here and the police has built slowly. Now, he says, that has to trickle down to the level of ordinary Iraqis.
WALID FARID ABDUL-SALAM, DIYALA CHIEF OF POLICE (through translator): We need time to convince our people of the intentions of the Americans, the intentions behind their presence and efforts for Iraq.
ARRAF: After the war, Iraqis expected peace and prosperity in this oil rich country. Most have neither and they blame the United States.
"The Americans have brought us nothing concrete, only words," Ixner (ph) tells us, reeling off a list of complaints.
American psychological operations teams still broadcast their messages in towns and cities, but many of those messages are asking for help in defeating the insurgency.
To build the trust they need, savvy military leaders devote a lot of time to talking with local leaders. At the 1st Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade, they use lessons they learned in the ethnic cauldron of Kosovo, primarily patience.
COL. DANA PITTARD, U.S. ARMY: What we learned there is for meetings success is, is that you wait everybody out. You listen to everybody's issues.
ARRAF: Success, he says, won't be making Iraqis like the American presence here. They probably won't ever do that. It will be to gain their confidence and cooperation in building a new Iraq.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Jane Arraf now joins us live from Kirkuk, a heavily dominated Kurdish area. When you talk about trust and friendship, it's not a hard thing to find among the Kurds, right, Jane?
ARRAF: It sure isn't, Kyra. It's really quite striking. In fact, we were at a camp today for internal refugees, if you will, talking to one Kurdish woman who had just had a baby girl, and she said, had it been a boy, she would actually have named him George Bush, and she was serious. She and the rest of the people around her were that grateful to U.S. forces still for getting rid of Saddam Hussein -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: Well, sure, you look back at the gassing of the Kurds, and still to this day, even a couple of weeks ago, finding these mass graves, with all the Kurdish people, women and children. You can understand why they would be in support of this, but then how do you parlay that, or move it over into other areas, Jane, of Iraq where the citizens you talked to, even in your piece, still don't trust Americans and understand why this effort is going forward?
ARRAF: That's going to be really tough because we're talking about decades and decades of mistrust of the United States, and its intentions, which rests on the fact that most people believe that the U.S. is here for the oil. It plays into the U.S. relationship with Israel, and compounded in that, that they don't have water in a lot of places. They don't have electricity. And they blame the United States.
Now, when thing goes wrong, the U.S. generally doesn't get credit -- generally gets the blame for it. When they go right, it doesn't really get the credit, but right now people say they've been promised a lot and those promises have not come through -- Kyra?
PHILLIPS: Well, we've heard so much about the violence lately. Jane Arraf there in Kirkuk. It's great to see a different type of story about how the relationships are getting stronger between Americans and Iraqis. Thank you, Jane -- Tony?
HARRIS: We're going to bring it back home -- and how! History, drama, bitter rivalry -- the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees series has it all. Will this be the night New England finally reverses the curse?
Also ahead, she is a hero to a generation of American girls. Soccer star Brandi Chastain tells you how to help those girls get more fun and more meaning out of their sports.
ANNOUNCER: You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news. DONNA ROSATO, WRITER "MONEY": Smart skiers know if you want to go skiing in the Rocky Mountains, the best time of year to go is early January -- after the holidays when most people want to go skiing and before everyone has an escape for mid-winter.
You can still see people -- can get away in January after he holidays. Ski and lift packages are usually about 30 percent less because there are just fewer crowds.
If you want to really save money on skiing, head to Canada. With the exchange rate being so favorable, skiing conditions are usually good, but January's usually the coldest month to ski.
If you really want to ski this winter and you don't want to pay top dollar, look for those quiet times.
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HARRIS: Having already made baseball history, can the Boston Red Sox go even further and reverse the curse? Boston beat the Yankees last night, and the American League Championship Series, becoming the first team ever to win three in a row after losing the first three games. With a win tonight, they would go to the World Series and, in the process, knock off the team that has dominated them since the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920.
Maybe that's why one of the New York papers has the Babe on the cover today. The Yankees could use him tonight. As for the Boston Red Sox, well, "The Boston Herald" calls it seventh heaven. Coming up in the next hour of LIVE FROM, I'll talk with an author who has been waiting a lifetime for this.
PHILLIPS: Well, soccer superstar Brandi Chastain says soccer is a beautiful game -- win, lose, or draw, always keep smiling. Sure, we know her smile, but what about that bra? From the World Cup to the WUSA Championship, Brandi Chastain has flashed that smile and, well, she's just simply flashed us.
But the soccer queen says, it's not about the bra. It's about playing hard, playing fair, and putting the fun back into competitive sports. That's the title of her new book, and I recently talked to Brandi about it.
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We talk a lot about the bra, but what I want to know is what happened to the jersey that you ripped off in the process?
BRANDI CHASTAIN, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: Well, you know, as a soccer tradition, we usually exchange jerseys. But I think I kept that one for my own collection.
PHILLIPS: Good for you! That one will be worth something. Well, it already is worth something.
CHASTAIN: It is. It's close my heart. PHILLIPS: Well, someone else -- something else, someone else that's very close to your heart -- has been very close to your heart: grandpa. This picture is so terrific of you sitting on his lap.
Now, tell us about the inspiration behind grandpa. Is this true about a dollar a goal?
CHASTAIN: Absolutely. He was a wonderful influence on my career as a young child and into my college years. He always had such a wonderful perspective, and I think he probably was one of the first influences on me as how important teamwork was and the idea of giving back.
And I think the whole $1 for the goal, but $1.50 for the assist really hit home with me, has been a lesson that I've used throughout my career. The idea of giving is really more important than receiving.
And anything that -- you know, and that's what being a part of a team is about, and that's why soccer for me has been such a wonderful vehicle, being a part of a team or community. And I owe it all to him. He is a sweetheart, as you can see in that picture. He was definitely -- he called me the apple of his eye, but I think he was the apple of mine.
PHILLIPS: I can relate. I know how special grandpas are, believe me. Did he ever increase the dollar? I'm just curious. As you got into college, did he bump it to five bucks?
CHASTAIN: No, we always kept it at a dollar and $1.50. I thought that was quite appropriate. Some days I'd even get ice cream, which was even a bonus.
PHILLIPS: Well, when you live through the Depression, I guess, you know, you're very good about saving.
Well, let's talk about the picture of your mom -- your biggest cheerleader. I want to know if she still has the megaphone.
CHASTAIN: Well, you know what? My parents both passed away not too long ago, but my brother and I have that megaphone. He actually asked me if he wanted me to wipe it off and bring it with me to New York. I said I don't have enough room in my bag.
But you know, she was an incredible support system for me -- she and my father both, but she was on the sideline at every game. It didn't matter if we are were in Guangzhou, China, Sydney, Australia, Athens, Georgia, Santa Clara, California -- I could hear her voice.
And that picture epitomizes the fact that she would bring that thing, and we would have 15 people on the sideline and she would still yet yell through that. I was like, mom, I can hear you. At the Rose Bowl with 90,000 people, I hear your voice, you don't need a megaphone.
But she was such a sweetheart, and that just really for me depicted the kind of support that she gave. She always wanted me to know that she was there for me.
PHILLIPS: Well, her spirit lives on through you, that is for darn sure.
Well, you talk about all those wonderful moments in soccer in your book and the wonderful relationships with your family. Now, to the purpose of this book and getting the fun back into competitive sports. We do see a lot of negativity. We see a lot of parents just going crazy about their kids in athletics and a lot of verbal abuse. I mean, it's crazy what I see sometimes on their field.
CHASTAIN: Parents love their kids so much that they're almost willing to do anything to help them to be successful. And sometimes they allow their emotions to get the best of them -- you know, in a tight game or when it's the tryouts for a new team, or you know, the kids are trying to figure out where they belong and what they want. Is it a scholarship or, you know, starting position?
That's great, but let's turn that type of emotional connection with our kids into something very positive. Cheering for the whole team while cheering for your child at the same time. Encouraging sportsmanship by cheering for the other team when they make a good play or a good save or nice goal, because all that comes back to you in the end.
Your child will see that being a part of the team means all the things -- the good and the bad. You know, how do we balance those things in life off the soccer field and how we can use those to benefit us in the future. And I think if parents can take a step back from, OK, they want their kid to score.
But if they can step back and say, look, what is the best thing for my child to learn from this day, from this game, and let them come to you as a parent and ask your advice and say, how can I get better, or how can I change what I did on the field, or I felt really good about what I do, then you can give your feedback. But let the coach on the sideline do the coaching, you do the cheering, and be there when your child needs you the most when they ask you those questions.
PHILLIPS: Brandi Chastain. The book is "It's Not About the Bra: How to Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back into Competitive Sports." You'll also read about brandy's rules, dress for success, chill on the jewelry, polish your cleats, hike up your socks, and, OK, keep your shirt on. Oh, Brandi.
CHASTAIN: I know. I know.
PHILLIPS: Oh, come on, don't change.
CHASTAIN: I'll try not to. Thanks so much.
PHILLIPS: All right.
HARRIS: Take that shirt off, twist it around like a helicopter. Sorry about that. PHILLIPS: I could ask her if, you know, she'll give you the jersey.
HARRIS: Oh, yes?
PHILLIPS: Yes.
HARRIS: I'd ask for something else, but that would really get me in trouble.
PHILLIPS: We won't tell Mandy.
OK, go ahead.
HARRIS: If you're not sleeping as well as you'd like, well, maybe Jeanne Moos can help. She's got the story of a pillow that really gives you a shoulder to lean on.
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PHILLIPS: All right, now a follow-up on a LIVE FROM bonus story. It's all about a pillow, made to resemble a boyfriend's arm, and a sensation with Japanese women.
HARRIS: Are you kidding, really?
PHILLIPS: I'm dead serious.
Got your attention.
HARRIS: Yes, you did.
But the question is, is it something American women can snuggle up to? We sent CNN's Jeanne Moos to find out.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): OK, put your head down.
(voice-over): This pillow requires instructions.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Am I supposed to cuddle like I would with a guy?
MOOS: That's the whole point of what's called the Boyfriend's Arm Pillow. Unlike a real arm, this one never gets numb. Unlike a real boyfriend, it's always there and doesn't snore.
It was dreamed up by a Japanese company whose president says his grandmother used to say there is not more comfortable pillow than the human pillow.
But will this stand in for a boyfriend, past muster with New York women?
(on camera): See, he looks better with the pajamas, don't you think?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, definitely.
MOOS (voice-over): We shelled out 70 bucks for a Boyfriend's Arm Pillow and had it shipped from Japan to New York.
(on camera): They put a hold on this thing in customs. They wanted more information on what it was.
(voice-over): For his first and only night out, we took the Boyfriend's Arm to a nightspot called High Line (ph) where they change sheets, not just tablecloths. He immediately caused trouble, spilling a drink and worse.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's feeling me up. It's very comfortable. It's a little disconcerting though to have like a hand.
MOOS: For guys it was a role reversal.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I usually have a head on my arm when I'm sleeping. I don't know, it feels like my mom is holding me or something.
MOOS (on camera): Really!
(voice-over): But this woman says it makes her feel lonelier.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would just rather get a real boyfriend for free.
MOOS: Some had suggestions for improving the pillow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, it needs a head.
MOOS: Forget a head, this guy wants a bust. We're told a female version already exists for $83. And they are working on designing a lap with a skirt, plus a more muscular Boyfriend's Arm.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would like something longer, because I like to like put my leg over something. I want the whole man.
MOOS: That's sure to cost an arm and a leg.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: It's all about the spooning, I thought.
HARRIS: Exactly, exactly. You took the words out of my mouth.
PHILLIPS: We're on the same page. All right.
Coming up in second hour of LIVE FROM, he's one of the funniest individuals in America. More than 35 years he's making us laugh. HARRIS: Wow, George Carlin joins us live to talk about his new book and his thoughts on the presidential election. You don't want to miss that.
LIVE FROM's hour of power begins after this.
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Live now to Rochester, Minnesota, the president of the United States stumping for votes there with supporters, talking about economy and healthcare. We're going to take a portion of what he's saying. Earlier today, course, we heard from John Kerry, stumping in Mason City, Iowa, talking security. Let's listen to president now.
(JOINED IN PROGRESS)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ... to make it hard for small businesses to be able to afford insurance and then running good doctors out of practice. You cannot be pro-doctor, pro- patient and pro-trial lawyer at the same time.
(APPLAUSE)
You have to choose. You have to choose. My opponent made his choice, and he put a personal injury trial lawyer on the ticket.
I made my choice. I am standing with our doctors and our patients. I support medical liability reform now.
(APPLAUSE)
Two other ways to address the cost of healthcare. One is speed up generic drugs to the market. Plus, I support the Minnesota congressmen, the senator's idea of importation of drugs from Canada, so long as it's safe. We want you to take drugs that cure you, not harm you.
I have a duty. It's easy for some in Congress to be calling for importation. I'm just going to make sure before they come in we know exactly what we're importing. You want to make sure that which comes in from Canada is actually manufactured in Canada. You don't want to be buying something from a third world country, and so we want to be safe. We want to make sure we do the right thing.
And fourthly, medicine, in all due respect, is like going back to the horse and buggy days when it comes to the use of information technology. I mean, you know, a lot of files that are handwritten still, and you can't even read a doctor's writing most of the time. So I believe in electronic medical records. I know we need to have a common language all across the medical field. They estimate that over 20 to 30 percent of the cost can be rung out of the system with the proper use of information technology. It's exciting new era available for medicine. You just need a president who understands how to address the root causes of costs going up, and that's how you avoid federalizing healthcare, and that's how you put in place common sense policies that makes sure the decisions are always made by doctor and patient, not by officials in our nation's capital.
(APPLAUSE)
A couple of other points I want to make very quickly.
I'm kind of getting wound up here. You notice the temperature in the room is rising.
What education is vital to make sure that we have a hopeful America. The No Child Left Behind Act we passed is a great piece of legislation. It challenges the soft bigotry of low expectations. It increases federal spending, but in return it says, show us, measure, and let us know whether a child can read and write, and add and subtract, and we have to find that out early. We can not have a system that simply shuffles kid through the system and hope we get it right; we need to know if we're getting it right.
You can't solve a problem unless you diagnose it, and now we're diagnosing problems early. We're providing extra money for at-risk students and students who need extra help, and there's an achievement gap closing in America, and it's vital. You know how we know, we measure? We can determine whether a child can read. And the reading scores are going up for kids that have generally been shuffled through the school system, and we're not going to go back to the days of mediocrity and low standards. We're making progress, and America's better off for it.
(APPLAUSE)
So we're going talk about education today. See, one of the things we have to make sure that education is not only strong for our kids; we have to make sure education is available for all our citizens, because in a changing world, and the world is changing, the jobs of the 21st century oftentimes require a new skillset. For those of you involved with medicine, know exactly what I'm talking about. Medicine's changing, and there constantly needs to be an upgrading of skills, and a great place to do that and a wonderful way to make sure people have got the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century is through our community college system. I'm a big backer of the community college system, and we're going to talk to a community college student here today about what it means to go back to school!
PHILLIPS: President Bush talking about education, the economy, healthcare, there in Rochester, Minnesota.
Next he'll be moving on to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he'll be participating in another open forum like this, focusing -- it's called the Focus Even With President Bush. He'll be talking more about farm issues and small business there in Wisconsin.
John Kerry, as we told you, was in Iowa earlier today, talking about security. He's on his way now to Pennsylvania once again to stump for votes there. So, obviously, both candidates on the campaign trail, working the supporters.
Post-war Iraq is a confusing place for the people who live there. It is sometimes hard to tell the good guys from the bad ones. This makes the U.S. mission of rebuilding the country very complicated indeed.
CNN's Baghdad bureau chief Jane Arraf is there.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): A year and a half after the end of the war there are few Americans talking about winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis. Now they're just trying to earn their trust. Soldiers still throw candy to children, even from helicopters, and they value friendly waves from townspeople.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now somebody sees someone throwing rocks at us. They usually try to drop two bags of toys or candy. They won't do it the next time.
ARRAF: But the U.S. military's mission here is more complex than anyone bargained for in an environment more hostile than anyone expected. Increasingly, they're aiming at more tangible goals.
LT. COL. STEVE BULLMORE, U.S. ARMY: Can we have trust and confidence in each other Iraqis and us and us and Iraqis? I would think that that's far easier than being of the same heart and of the same mind.
ARRAF: Walid Farid Abdul-Salam, chief of police in Diyala in the Sunni Triangle, says trust between military commanders here and the police has built slowly. Now, he says, that has to trickle down to the level of ordinary Iraqis.
WALID FARID ABDUL-SALAM, DIYALA CHIEF OF POLICE (through translator): We need time to convince our people of the intentions of the Americans, the intentions behind their presence and efforts for Iraq.
ARRAF: After the war, Iraqis expected peace and prosperity in this oil rich country. Most have neither and they blame the United States.
"The Americans have brought us nothing concrete, only words," Ixner (ph) tells us, reeling off a list of complaints.
American psychological operations teams still broadcast their messages in towns and cities, but many of those messages are asking for help in defeating the insurgency.
To build the trust they need, savvy military leaders devote a lot of time to talking with local leaders. At the 1st Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade, they use lessons they learned in the ethnic cauldron of Kosovo, primarily patience.
COL. DANA PITTARD, U.S. ARMY: What we learned there is for meetings success is, is that you wait everybody out. You listen to everybody's issues.
ARRAF: Success, he says, won't be making Iraqis like the American presence here. They probably won't ever do that. It will be to gain their confidence and cooperation in building a new Iraq.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Jane Arraf now joins us live from Kirkuk, a heavily dominated Kurdish area. When you talk about trust and friendship, it's not a hard thing to find among the Kurds, right, Jane?
ARRAF: It sure isn't, Kyra. It's really quite striking. In fact, we were at a camp today for internal refugees, if you will, talking to one Kurdish woman who had just had a baby girl, and she said, had it been a boy, she would actually have named him George Bush, and she was serious. She and the rest of the people around her were that grateful to U.S. forces still for getting rid of Saddam Hussein -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: Well, sure, you look back at the gassing of the Kurds, and still to this day, even a couple of weeks ago, finding these mass graves, with all the Kurdish people, women and children. You can understand why they would be in support of this, but then how do you parlay that, or move it over into other areas, Jane, of Iraq where the citizens you talked to, even in your piece, still don't trust Americans and understand why this effort is going forward?
ARRAF: That's going to be really tough because we're talking about decades and decades of mistrust of the United States, and its intentions, which rests on the fact that most people believe that the U.S. is here for the oil. It plays into the U.S. relationship with Israel, and compounded in that, that they don't have water in a lot of places. They don't have electricity. And they blame the United States.
Now, when thing goes wrong, the U.S. generally doesn't get credit -- generally gets the blame for it. When they go right, it doesn't really get the credit, but right now people say they've been promised a lot and those promises have not come through -- Kyra?
PHILLIPS: Well, we've heard so much about the violence lately. Jane Arraf there in Kirkuk. It's great to see a different type of story about how the relationships are getting stronger between Americans and Iraqis. Thank you, Jane -- Tony?
HARRIS: We're going to bring it back home -- and how! History, drama, bitter rivalry -- the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees series has it all. Will this be the night New England finally reverses the curse?
Also ahead, she is a hero to a generation of American girls. Soccer star Brandi Chastain tells you how to help those girls get more fun and more meaning out of their sports.
ANNOUNCER: You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news. DONNA ROSATO, WRITER "MONEY": Smart skiers know if you want to go skiing in the Rocky Mountains, the best time of year to go is early January -- after the holidays when most people want to go skiing and before everyone has an escape for mid-winter.
You can still see people -- can get away in January after he holidays. Ski and lift packages are usually about 30 percent less because there are just fewer crowds.
If you want to really save money on skiing, head to Canada. With the exchange rate being so favorable, skiing conditions are usually good, but January's usually the coldest month to ski.
If you really want to ski this winter and you don't want to pay top dollar, look for those quiet times.
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HARRIS: Having already made baseball history, can the Boston Red Sox go even further and reverse the curse? Boston beat the Yankees last night, and the American League Championship Series, becoming the first team ever to win three in a row after losing the first three games. With a win tonight, they would go to the World Series and, in the process, knock off the team that has dominated them since the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920.
Maybe that's why one of the New York papers has the Babe on the cover today. The Yankees could use him tonight. As for the Boston Red Sox, well, "The Boston Herald" calls it seventh heaven. Coming up in the next hour of LIVE FROM, I'll talk with an author who has been waiting a lifetime for this.
PHILLIPS: Well, soccer superstar Brandi Chastain says soccer is a beautiful game -- win, lose, or draw, always keep smiling. Sure, we know her smile, but what about that bra? From the World Cup to the WUSA Championship, Brandi Chastain has flashed that smile and, well, she's just simply flashed us.
But the soccer queen says, it's not about the bra. It's about playing hard, playing fair, and putting the fun back into competitive sports. That's the title of her new book, and I recently talked to Brandi about it.
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We talk a lot about the bra, but what I want to know is what happened to the jersey that you ripped off in the process?
BRANDI CHASTAIN, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: Well, you know, as a soccer tradition, we usually exchange jerseys. But I think I kept that one for my own collection.
PHILLIPS: Good for you! That one will be worth something. Well, it already is worth something.
CHASTAIN: It is. It's close my heart. PHILLIPS: Well, someone else -- something else, someone else that's very close to your heart -- has been very close to your heart: grandpa. This picture is so terrific of you sitting on his lap.
Now, tell us about the inspiration behind grandpa. Is this true about a dollar a goal?
CHASTAIN: Absolutely. He was a wonderful influence on my career as a young child and into my college years. He always had such a wonderful perspective, and I think he probably was one of the first influences on me as how important teamwork was and the idea of giving back.
And I think the whole $1 for the goal, but $1.50 for the assist really hit home with me, has been a lesson that I've used throughout my career. The idea of giving is really more important than receiving.
And anything that -- you know, and that's what being a part of a team is about, and that's why soccer for me has been such a wonderful vehicle, being a part of a team or community. And I owe it all to him. He is a sweetheart, as you can see in that picture. He was definitely -- he called me the apple of his eye, but I think he was the apple of mine.
PHILLIPS: I can relate. I know how special grandpas are, believe me. Did he ever increase the dollar? I'm just curious. As you got into college, did he bump it to five bucks?
CHASTAIN: No, we always kept it at a dollar and $1.50. I thought that was quite appropriate. Some days I'd even get ice cream, which was even a bonus.
PHILLIPS: Well, when you live through the Depression, I guess, you know, you're very good about saving.
Well, let's talk about the picture of your mom -- your biggest cheerleader. I want to know if she still has the megaphone.
CHASTAIN: Well, you know what? My parents both passed away not too long ago, but my brother and I have that megaphone. He actually asked me if he wanted me to wipe it off and bring it with me to New York. I said I don't have enough room in my bag.
But you know, she was an incredible support system for me -- she and my father both, but she was on the sideline at every game. It didn't matter if we are were in Guangzhou, China, Sydney, Australia, Athens, Georgia, Santa Clara, California -- I could hear her voice.
And that picture epitomizes the fact that she would bring that thing, and we would have 15 people on the sideline and she would still yet yell through that. I was like, mom, I can hear you. At the Rose Bowl with 90,000 people, I hear your voice, you don't need a megaphone.
But she was such a sweetheart, and that just really for me depicted the kind of support that she gave. She always wanted me to know that she was there for me.
PHILLIPS: Well, her spirit lives on through you, that is for darn sure.
Well, you talk about all those wonderful moments in soccer in your book and the wonderful relationships with your family. Now, to the purpose of this book and getting the fun back into competitive sports. We do see a lot of negativity. We see a lot of parents just going crazy about their kids in athletics and a lot of verbal abuse. I mean, it's crazy what I see sometimes on their field.
CHASTAIN: Parents love their kids so much that they're almost willing to do anything to help them to be successful. And sometimes they allow their emotions to get the best of them -- you know, in a tight game or when it's the tryouts for a new team, or you know, the kids are trying to figure out where they belong and what they want. Is it a scholarship or, you know, starting position?
That's great, but let's turn that type of emotional connection with our kids into something very positive. Cheering for the whole team while cheering for your child at the same time. Encouraging sportsmanship by cheering for the other team when they make a good play or a good save or nice goal, because all that comes back to you in the end.
Your child will see that being a part of the team means all the things -- the good and the bad. You know, how do we balance those things in life off the soccer field and how we can use those to benefit us in the future. And I think if parents can take a step back from, OK, they want their kid to score.
But if they can step back and say, look, what is the best thing for my child to learn from this day, from this game, and let them come to you as a parent and ask your advice and say, how can I get better, or how can I change what I did on the field, or I felt really good about what I do, then you can give your feedback. But let the coach on the sideline do the coaching, you do the cheering, and be there when your child needs you the most when they ask you those questions.
PHILLIPS: Brandi Chastain. The book is "It's Not About the Bra: How to Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back into Competitive Sports." You'll also read about brandy's rules, dress for success, chill on the jewelry, polish your cleats, hike up your socks, and, OK, keep your shirt on. Oh, Brandi.
CHASTAIN: I know. I know.
PHILLIPS: Oh, come on, don't change.
CHASTAIN: I'll try not to. Thanks so much.
PHILLIPS: All right.
HARRIS: Take that shirt off, twist it around like a helicopter. Sorry about that. PHILLIPS: I could ask her if, you know, she'll give you the jersey.
HARRIS: Oh, yes?
PHILLIPS: Yes.
HARRIS: I'd ask for something else, but that would really get me in trouble.
PHILLIPS: We won't tell Mandy.
OK, go ahead.
HARRIS: If you're not sleeping as well as you'd like, well, maybe Jeanne Moos can help. She's got the story of a pillow that really gives you a shoulder to lean on.
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PHILLIPS: All right, now a follow-up on a LIVE FROM bonus story. It's all about a pillow, made to resemble a boyfriend's arm, and a sensation with Japanese women.
HARRIS: Are you kidding, really?
PHILLIPS: I'm dead serious.
Got your attention.
HARRIS: Yes, you did.
But the question is, is it something American women can snuggle up to? We sent CNN's Jeanne Moos to find out.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): OK, put your head down.
(voice-over): This pillow requires instructions.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Am I supposed to cuddle like I would with a guy?
MOOS: That's the whole point of what's called the Boyfriend's Arm Pillow. Unlike a real arm, this one never gets numb. Unlike a real boyfriend, it's always there and doesn't snore.
It was dreamed up by a Japanese company whose president says his grandmother used to say there is not more comfortable pillow than the human pillow.
But will this stand in for a boyfriend, past muster with New York women?
(on camera): See, he looks better with the pajamas, don't you think?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, definitely.
MOOS (voice-over): We shelled out 70 bucks for a Boyfriend's Arm Pillow and had it shipped from Japan to New York.
(on camera): They put a hold on this thing in customs. They wanted more information on what it was.
(voice-over): For his first and only night out, we took the Boyfriend's Arm to a nightspot called High Line (ph) where they change sheets, not just tablecloths. He immediately caused trouble, spilling a drink and worse.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's feeling me up. It's very comfortable. It's a little disconcerting though to have like a hand.
MOOS: For guys it was a role reversal.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I usually have a head on my arm when I'm sleeping. I don't know, it feels like my mom is holding me or something.
MOOS (on camera): Really!
(voice-over): But this woman says it makes her feel lonelier.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would just rather get a real boyfriend for free.
MOOS: Some had suggestions for improving the pillow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, it needs a head.
MOOS: Forget a head, this guy wants a bust. We're told a female version already exists for $83. And they are working on designing a lap with a skirt, plus a more muscular Boyfriend's Arm.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would like something longer, because I like to like put my leg over something. I want the whole man.
MOOS: That's sure to cost an arm and a leg.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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PHILLIPS: It's all about the spooning, I thought.
HARRIS: Exactly, exactly. You took the words out of my mouth.
PHILLIPS: We're on the same page. All right.
Coming up in second hour of LIVE FROM, he's one of the funniest individuals in America. More than 35 years he's making us laugh. HARRIS: Wow, George Carlin joins us live to talk about his new book and his thoughts on the presidential election. You don't want to miss that.
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