Posted on 04/10/2006 3:55:42 PM PDT by snugs
The President spent the weekend in Washington attending Church on Sunday with the First Lady.
Today the President delivered remarks on 'The Global War On Terror' at the John Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
The First lady participated in Urban League events and a lunch with Gulf Coast Educators in New Orleans.
Tomorrow Vice President Dick Cheney will throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Washington Nationals at RFK Stadium at tomorrow afternoon's game against the New York Mets.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
QUOTE OF THE DAY
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
The Johns Hopkins University
Washington, D.C.
At the start of this young century, America is once again engaged in a real war that is testing our nation's resolve. While there are important distinctions, today's war on terror is like the Cold War. It is an ideological struggle with an enemy that despises freedom and pursues totalitarian aims. Like the Cold War, our adversary is dismissive of free peoples, claiming that men and women who live in liberty are weak and decadent -- and they lack the resolve to defend our way of life. Like the Cold War, America is once again answering history's call with confidence -- and like the Cold War, freedom will prevail.
Yesterday, our nation marked the third anniversary of a great moment in the history of freedom -- it was the liberation of Iraq. Three years ago, coalition forces entered the gates of Baghdad, fought their way into the center of the city, and helped Iraqis pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein. What they found in Baghdad horrified our troops. One Marine describes how Iraqis led his unit to a children's prison where more than 100 youngsters were being held -- some of the children had reportedly been jailed because they refused to join the Baathist Party Youth Organization. He says: "It was really something, the children just streamed out of the gates and their parents just started to embrace us."
Under Saddam's brutal regime, the Iraqi people lived lives of fear and desperation. Innocent civilians were executed in public squares, they were massacred and piled into mass graves. Saddam's regime denied people food and medicine while building elaborate palaces from which to rule with an iron hand. Saddam sponsored terrorism; he pursued and used weapons of mass destruction; he fired at U.S. and British air crews patrolling the no-fly zones; he defied more than a dozen U.N. Security Council resolutions. Today, because America and a great coalition acted, the regime is no longer in power, is no longer sponsoring terrorists, is no longer destabilizing the region, is no longer undermining the credibility of the United Nations, is no longer threatening the world. Because we acted, 25 million Iraqis now taste freedom.
The decision by the United States and our coalition partners to remove Saddam Hussein was a really difficult decision -- it was the right decision. After September the 11th, America decided that we would fight the war on terror on the offense -- and that we would confront threats before they fully materialized. Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States of America. America is safer today because Saddam Hussein is no longer in power.
PHOTO OF THE DAY 
President George W. Bush speaks on the Global War on Terror at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., Monday, April 10, 2006. "Yesterday, our nation marked the third anniversary of a great moment in the history of freedom -- it was the liberation of Iraq. Three years ago, coalition forces entered the gates of Baghdad, fought their way into the center of the city, and helped Iraqis pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein," said President Bush.
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Hello Peach fast off the mark today.
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush leave St. John's Church with Rev. Luis Leon, Sunday, April 9, 2006
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Thanks for the dose; I look forward to checking out the pictures later.
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The blank post is me using Gretchens tip! LOL!Didn't make it in first but got closer for not having to type any thing first.Thanks snugs for The posting of pics & Thanks again Gretch for your tip poted to All... To all Dose posters get used to seeing my !st post a blank if I happen to catch a viewing early okay? I'm a slow typist.
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