Casey (Santorum's opponent) on Domestic Surveillance (transcript)

Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board ^ | October 17, 2006

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President's News Conference today:

BUSH: I'm confident because I believe the power of liberty will defeat the ideology of hate every time, if given a chance.

I believe that the radicals represent the few in the Middle East. I believe the majority of people want to live in a peaceful world. That's what I believe.

And I know it's incumbent upon our government, and others who enjoy the blessings of liberty, to help those moderates succeed.

Because otherwise we're looking at the potential of this kind of world, a world in which radical forms of Islam compete for power; a world in which moderate governments get toppled by people willing to murder the innocent; a world in which oil reserves are controlled by radicals in order to extract blackmail from the West; a world in which Iran has a nuclear weapon.

And if that were to occur, people would look back at this day and age and say, "What happened to those people in 2006? How come they couldn't see the threat to a future generation of people?"

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