Posted: November 20th, 2006, 3:00am PST
12:35 p.m. EST MR. CASEY: Good afternoon, everybody. It's a pleasure to be here with you. Welcome to the start of Thanksgiving week. I don't have any opening statements or announcements for you, so let's go right to your questions. QUESTION: Well, everybody seems to have the story out of Baghdad that's interesting that Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian Presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mr. Ahmadi-Nejad to hash out ways to cooperate on Iraq, presumably to tamp down the violence in Iraq.