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Unlike her fellow celebrities Susan Sarandon and Bryan Adams as well as Ricky Martin, Angelina Jolie has not decided yet whether she will cast her vote for Barack Obama or John McCain in November. "Everyone thinks that I have made up my mind," she told German daily Frankfurter Rundschau in an interview. "But my decision is still very much open. I have listened very carefully for what Obama and McCain stand for, which is something that every voter should do. I will make my decision only after I know what both candidates plan to do in the areas that are important to me," Jolie added.
One of those areas of interest to the actress, who is also an ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, is Iraq and the refugee situation in that country. With that in mind, Jolie said it is "not possible right now to simply hand over the reins to the Iraqis and pull out. The U.S. has not only a moral obligation to help the Iraqi refugees, it is also a US national security interest to end this crisis."
In the interview, Jolie critized the Bush administration's "highly questionable foreign policy," but said that was not the reason why she and her family live mostly in France. "French is the second language in our household, so it is good to be there right now," the actress said.
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