Posted on 08/12/2006 7:55:21 AM PDT by Salvation
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 12, 2006
President's Radio Address
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In Focus: Homeland Security
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, America received a stark reminder that terrorists are still plotting attacks to kill our people. Beginning on Wednesday night, authorities in Great Britain arrested more than 20 individuals who we believe were plotting to detonate liquid explosives aboard flights from the United Kingdom to the United States. If these terrorists had succeeded, they could have caused death on a massive scale. The plot appears to have been carefully planned and well-advanced. They planned to bring the components of their explosives on board in their carry-on luggage, disguised as bottled drinks and electronic devices.
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First, the Department of Homeland Security has raised our Nation's threat warning to Code Red -- the highest level -- for flights from Great Britain to America, in coordination with British authorities. Second, we've raised the threat warning for all domestic and international flights landing in the United States to Code Orange -- the second highest level. We also have sent additional federal air marshals to Great Britain to provide extra protection aboard flights from the United Kingdom to the United States.
This plot is further evidence that the terrorists we face are sophisticated, and constantly changing their tactics. On September the 11th, 2001, they used box cutters to hijack airplanes and kill thousands of innocent people. This time, we believe they planned to use liquid explosives to blow up planes in mid-air. In response, we've adjusted our security precautions by temporarily banning most liquids as carry-on items on planes. I know many of you will be traveling during this busy summer vacation season, and I ask for your patience, cooperation, and vigilance in the coming days. The inconveniences you will face are for your protection, and they will give us time to adjust our screening procedures to meet the current threat.
I'm grateful for the outstanding work of intelligence and law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom and in our country. This week's arrests were the culmination of hard work, cooperation, and information-sharing across different agencies and different governments. We're dealing with a new enemy that uses new means of attack and new methods to communicate. This week's events demonstrate the vital importance of ensuring that our intelligence and law enforcement personnel have all the tools they need to track down the terrorists, and prevent attacks on our country.
Because of the measures we've taken to protect the American people, our Nation is safer than it was prior to September the 11th. Still, we must never make the mistake of thinking the danger of terrorism has passed. This week's experience reminds us of a hard fact: The terrorists have to succeed only once to achieve their goal of mass murder, while we have to succeed every time to stop them. Unfortunately, some have suggested recently that the terrorist threat is being used for partisan political advantage. We can have legitimate disagreements about the best way to fight the terrorists, yet there should be no disagreement about the dangers we face.
America is fighting a tough war against an enemy whose ruthlessness is clear for all to see. The terrorists attempt to bring down airplanes full of innocent men, women, and children. They kill civilians and American servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they deliberately hide behind civilians in Lebanon. They are seeking to spread their totalitarian ideology. They're seeking to take over countries like Afghanistan and Iraq so they can establish safe havens from which to attack free nations. These killers need to know that America, Great Britain, and our allies are determined to defend ourselves and advance the cause of liberty. With patience, courage, and untiring resolve, we will defend our freedom, and we will win the war on terror.
Thank you for listening.
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How quickly things can change!
bump
Bingo, Dubya!
Is anyone flying this week like I am? I am more than willing to be at the airport three hours ahead of time. What will be painful for me will be not being able to have some coffee in my little thermos and a bottle of water to take along.
I am wondering how the airlines will compensate. Will they have bottles of water for sale?
Otherwise, during my four hour flight from PDX to central U. S. I will ask for both water and coffee! LOL!
GWB Bump.
Absolutely!
Didn't use the term Islamo-Fascist... back to calling them terrorists again. Go figure...
His choice, I gather. (Or the speechwriter's choice?)
I am kind of wondering why all this is left to officials and officers. Are citizens not capable of noticing terroristic threatenings?
**Are citizens not capable of noticing terroristic threatenings?**
I intend to be looking around as I board airplanes this next week!!!!
How about everyone else?
The President should start doing live weekly webcast addresses to reach more people. Nobody listens to the radio on a Saturday morning for news.
A request of you all___----___
Since I will be at my daughter's house and helping with a two year old and a newborn, I really don't see how I could break away to post the Radio Address next week.
If you could do it, please FReepmail me and I will send you the Ping List.
And thanks in advance!!!!!
Unfortunately, some have suggested recently that the terrorist threat is being used for partisan political advantage. We can have legitimate disagreements about the best way to fight the terrorists, yet there should be no disagreement about the dangers we face.
This is the part that bothers me the most. We as a country need to get beyond the obvious threat and come together on a solution. We need to put our country before political parties or there will be no need for either because we will all be dead.
some very carefully selected words... be alert FRiends, and IMO, we should try to educate our families and friends who really don't know what's going on here. Not everyone is tuned in, and they need to be in these days!
The President made a big statement earlier this week when he put a name on the enemy
"....I ask for your patience, cooperation, and vigilance in the coming days."
I believe that it's our responsibility to notify FBI (I wouldn't go to locals) of any serious suspicions we have...
59,000,000 voted for Jean Francois Kerry in 2004... the man who said 9/11 changed... NOTHING. The people I deal with in MA got their heads so far up their a$$... their collar's have sht-stains.
**We need to put our country before political parties or there will be no need for either because we will all be dead.**
Amen!
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