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From the President's speech in Charleston, WV, on Sunday, July 4th.

The war on terror has placed demands on our military. In Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere, our people in uniform have been unrelenting in their performance of duty. They've been skillful and courageous. They've accepted hard missions, long deployments, and the difficulties of being separated from their homes and their families. Some have returned home wounded. Some have died. Each is mourned and missed. And each one will be honored by our country forever.

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Our immediate task in battlefronts like Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere is to capture or kill the terrorists. That's our immediate task. We made a decision, you see: We will engage these enemies in these countries and around the world so we do not have to face them here at home.

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Happy Independence Day, y'all Canteeners!!

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He doesn't miss church very often....

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HAPPY FOURTH HOLIDAY TO ALL.

PRAYERS FOR OUR TROOPS

¡Viva Bush/Cheney! Two absolutely incredible men!

A friend told me Laura will be on The Tonight Show (Leno) tonight.

AWESOME photos of our very PATRIOTIC president!!

The following are articles from the local Charleston papers that covered the President's speech yesterday. [Note: While the two papers differed relative to their crowd estimates, the police put the OFFICIAL attendance at approximately 7,000!]

EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE ONE:

President vows to stand
tall against terrorism

Josh Hafenbrack
Daily Mail Capitol reporter

Monday July 05, 2004

Before thousands of flag-waving West Virginians on America's 228th birthday, President Bush vowed to confront terrorism around the globe, even as he struck optimistic tones about the strength of the nation's democracy and the war on terrorism.

America will "engage enemies around the world, so we do not have to face them here at home," Bush said to thunderous applause from the partisan crowd.

"You can't talk sense into them. You can't negotiate with them. You cannot hope for the best with these people. We must be relentless and determined to do our duty."

The president's third visit to West Virginia this year also was notable for its local flavor. Bush took time in his 27-minute speech to name-drop politicians, military officials and community activists.

In his second Fourth of July visit as president, Bush, speaking in the shadow of the gold Capitol dome, said on Sunday that America's founding fathers would be proud of the nation they helped create.

"Opportunity is common," the president said, calling America "a country full of promise and hope."

America, the president said, is "a nation that stands strong against violent men."

It's a country of "strong values, faith in the Lord and love in our families," Bush said. "They'd not only find them strong all over the country, they'd find them very strong in West Virginia."

http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2004070524/

EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE TWO:

Bush lauds W.Va.'s role
President says coal important
to keep U.S. independent

Chris Stirewalt
Daily Mail Political Editor

Monday July 05, 2004

In a time of uncertainty around the globe, West Virginia can find a path to prosperity by combining old industries with new technologies, President Bush said.

In a 15-minute interview with the Daily Mail prior to his Independence Day speech at the state Capitol, Bush said that in a post-9/11 world, West Virginia had a special role to play.

"In order for us to be less dependent on foreign sources of crude (oil), we have to be wise about how we use the resources we have," Bush said. "And a major resource we have is coal -- something you know a good bit about in West Virginia."

Bush said America's habit of importing 60 percent of its oil has serious implications for national security.

The president said energy independence would come through a variety of means, including new technologies that would allow the country to "grow our way out of dependence." He cited the more than $2 billion already spent on clean coal technologies during his time in office.

Bush blasted lawmakers for "playing politics" with his administration's proposed energy bill. He said if the measure were in place, West Virginia would benefit from increased reliance on coal for electricity.

Even without the bill, Bush said West Virginia was in a good situation to capitalize on changing American priorities. Bush said the real challenge for the state was to branch out.

"West Virginia must never abandon her strength, which is her ability to produce energy and steel," Bush said. "But the leadership here understands that they must diversify their economy into the new jobs."

He cited health care and homeland security as two areas where the state could see job growth, citing recent research gains in both areas that had come out of the Mountain State.

"But you've also got a fantastic opportunity to promote tourism in West Virginia," Bush said. "The more mobile Americans become, they're going to choose to come to places where they can exercise or fish and enjoy the outdoors. West Virginia is a beautiful place."

http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2004070523/

EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE THREE:

We must be relentless,’ Bush says

At Capitol, president trumpets vision of hope in Afghanistan, Iraq

By Scott Finn
Staff Writer

In his second Fourth of July visit to West Virginia in three years, President Bush called on Americans to “do our duty” and support wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of the larger war against terrorism.

“You can’t talk sense to these people. You can’t negotiate with them,” Bush told more than 3,000 supporters gathered in the courtyard of the state Capitol building Sunday afternoon.

“We must be relentless and determined to do our duty,” he said, to some of the biggest cheers of his speech.

Bush’s spent most of his 25-minute speech on Iraq, Afghanistan and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, linking them together.

After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Bush said, “the nation resolved to fight terrorists where they dwelled.”

“Because we acted, Afghanistan is a rising democracy,” he said, and “Iraq is a free and sovereign nation.”

A bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks found no evidence linking Saddam Hussein’s regime to the attacks by Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network, al-Qaida.

Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney assert that there were contacts between Saddam’s regime and al-Qaida. Last week, Cheney said Saddam sent a general to Afghanistan to train al-Qaida operatives in bomb-making and forgery.

During his speech, Bush said he has researched Charleston’s history, and found out George Washington owned land in the area.

“I call him George W.,” Bush said, to laughs. He later compared the nation’s founders and their struggle to form a new nation with the struggles of the new government of Iraq.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2004070423

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