Posted on 09/22/2005 12:50:55 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Bush: Weak terror response led to 9/11
Sep 22, 2005, 19:00 GMT
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- President Bush said withdrawing from Iraq would be a mistake that would embolden terrorists just as U.S. responses to other attacks led to 9/11 hijackings.
Speaking Thursday at the Pentagon after an update on the war on terror, Bush said a pullback would be seen as weakness and make the United States less safe.
'The terrorists saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings in the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole,' Bush said. 'The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves and so they attacked us.'
It was the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, carried out by al-Qaida operatives, that led Bush to launch the war on terror with an attack on Afghanistan, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden had been given sanctuary. Bush links the fighting in Iraq with the war on terror.
The president said the plan is to follow a strategy of making political gains in the affected counties, while training local personnel to assume security operations.
"So In Reagans defense I don't think he could gone after Syria since they where an ally of the Soviets.."
Reagan did have one of the battleships (USS New Jersey perhaps?) hurl volkswagon sized shells at the Syrians. It wasn't enough but it was something.
Finally!
Agree.
I could have sworn is was sarcasm.
Please see my post # 73.
It's about time he got some stones! Now don't stop there, I wanna see some shots at Kennedy, Boxer, Reid, Pelosi, ALGore(one word), John Fing Kerry and all the rest of those a$$holes.
Better, even, than your namesake might say it...Yes!
4yrs too late, but I'll take it. This should be repeated in each of his remaining State of the Union addresses and every time he speaks to the American people.
EVERY TIME
About damn time he said that!
Ref: <<""'The terrorists saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings in the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole,' Bush said. 'The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves and so they attacked us.' >>
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RamS
Just Wow! Tell 'em Mr. President. They need to be reminded day after day after day after day..........
Yep, Clintoon's definitely an expert in lack of courage and character.
Someone who knows how (I don't! Sorry.) Please send a link to this thread to the White House.
Okay, I'll just say HOORAY!!!!!!! I'm not a Marine anyway.
SMACK!!
Got any video of this???
Thanks to President Bush for stating what should be obvious, and evidently isn't.
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DITTO.
Excellent, and George Bush should do lots more of this.
I heard Dick Morris interviewed the other day and he was saying that he thought GWB had finally "got it" after the latest 'toon diatribe on the Sunday shows and wasn't going to stand for this cr*p anymore. Good to see he was right.
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