Text of President Bush's Address to Congress As Prepared for Delivery

Bump for a man of destiny.

though the text is magnificent (whoever wrote it is a genius) the President himself was simply amazing!

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Forget FDR's "Day of Infamy." This is the new benchmark.

"The new benchmark".

Exactly right. Bump!

Bush condemned fascists and Nazis, but what about the Commies and Marxists? What about the greatest killing machine of the 20th century?

Nice speech, welcome to global governance. The loss of freedom you felt from the acts of Bin Laden will pale in comparison to what G.W. has planned for you. One problem you won't have to worry about however, is lines at the borders, the borders will remain wide open. you all are just gonna love "MARSHALL LAW"

Great speech! One troubling aspect. Just so everyone knows what kind of man was just appointed Cabinet level leader of "Homeland Defense"

After an Erie area March for Life delegation met with a freshman Congressman Ridge in Washington on January 23, 1984, the March 1984 issue of the Erie Echo reports Ridge responded, "Does government have a right to force a woman to be an incubator for nine months for another individual?" Ridge served in the US Congress for twelve years during which time he was able to accumulate an almost perfect pro-abortion voting record.

While the remainder of the state had never heard of him, wealthy pro-abort Republicans, tired of the pro-life Republican leadership of the 1980s, saw Ridge as a Catholic family man, veteran, and ruggedly good-looking candidate who could be quietly groomed, via the State Governor’s mansion, for eventual national leadership, putting an end to the control of the party by the pro-life right wing.

To this end, Ridge was pulled from his relative obscurity in Washington to become a front runner for the Governor’s position. Utilizing a campaign that emphasized his moderate to conservative positions, while minimalizing if not obscuring his pro-abort voting record, Ridge was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1994. Few Catholics, even pro-lifers, realized the depth of Ridge’s pro-abort sentiment. It was simply assumed that Ridge was pro-life and his campaign rhetoric, if anything, supported that misconception.

The outgoing Governor Bob Casey was a faithful pro-life Catholic even in the midst of the moral rot of his Democrat party. Governor of Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1994, Casey persevered through the 1992 Supreme Court Case, Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, which challenged the constitutionality of 1989's Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act. The law required parental consent for minors, a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion, the filing of detailed reports about each abortion and distribution of information about alternatives to abortion, and was upheld by the Supreme Court.

In his campaign, Ridge pledged to uphold the victories hard won by Casey in defending the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act. His actions once in office belied his pro-abort stance and angered many Catholics who had voted for him. His complete failure to enforce the dictates of the Abortion Control Act proved Ridge's 1994 promise to uphold it was "campaign rhetoric."

It should have come as no surprise, however. While a Congressman, Ridge had initially supported Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City policy, preventing US funds from going to overseas agencies supporting abortion services, then subsequently reversed his position. Just as one of Bill Clinton’s first acts as President was to overturn the Mexico City policy of the previous administrations, one of Ridge’s first acts was to overturn the 14 year old policy of Pennsylvania regarding family planning services. According to The Newsletter of Planned Parenthood of the Susquehanna Valley:

"...Since 1981, Pennsylvania has been one of only a few states that did not invest funds in contraceptive health services. Governor Tom Ridge made good on his campaign pledge to support funding for comprehensive family planning services by including $2.03 million for 'women's medical services' in his first budget...(legislators) inserted language that could have prohibited medical providers like Planned Parenthood from responding to patients' requests for abortion information or referral...Governor Ridge removed the ...'gag rule' language before signing the final budget. Ridge noted that he was 'expressly withholding (his) approval of that language'."

In May of 1995, Ridge emphatically stated that Pope John Paul II’s new encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, would not cause him to reassess his position on the issue. In 1996, Governor Ridge joined other pro-abortion republican Governor in calling for removal of the pro-life plank from the Republican National Platform. Then during 1997, his Department of Health waived a requirement of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act that requires an abortion clinic to obtain a written transfer agreement with a local hospital, allowing a new abortion clinic to open in State College. Newspapers quoted the clinic's director as saying the waiver allowed the clinic to open early, and the first abortion clinic ever in the central Pennsylvania Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown was open for business.

On January 20, 1998, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare mailed a Planned Parenthood brochure to all PA Medical Assistance recipients. According to the Pro Life Union Inc. of Southeastern Pennsylvania News Bulletin, Respect Life Sunday 98:

"State of PA Caught Marketing For Planned Parenthood: This past January, PA residents who receive medical assistance from the Pa. Dept. of Welfare (DPW) received a brochure in the mail promoting Planned Parenthood. It was titled, "We're More Than You Think." It listed the "services" offered and advised the recipient they could come to PP without a referral or insurance . . . Although the brochure arrived in an unmarked envelope, recipients recognized it as typical of mailings they receive from DPW. . . "

"On further investigation, it was learned that the postal meter numbers used for the mailing belonged to DPW. . . Finally, on April 10, a letter was written admitting that DPW had made an "arrangement" with PP of Chester County, whereby PP supplied the brochure, but DPW stuffed, addressed and paid the postage . . . Another interesting fact, not previously known, emerged in the newspaper accounts. Frances Sheehan, Exec. Director of PP of Chester County, stated that "the actual text of the brochure was reviewed and approved by the governor's office prior to printing."

In all my days, I have NEVER been prouder to be an American, This speech tonight will go down in history as one of the greatest ever delivered.

God Bless America

Thanks for posting this deport :-)

Anybody here make bumper stickers, cause here's what I want: "You can thank me, I voted for Bush"

Eloquent, beautiful, intensely intelligent, passionate, decisive.

This speech precisely mirrors the man who delivered these magificent words.

I can once again, after far too long and dark a time, look proudly at the image and words of the President of the United States with pride and confidence.

Thank you and a bump.

ROFLMAO!

This was a moment of greatness

You can say that again.

Bush condemned fascists and Nazis, but what about the Commies and Marxists?

We want even the communist nations like China to join in rejecting terrorism. Therefore it would have been counterproductive to define them as the enemy in this war.

Wanna go in business? I bet a person could make a ton of money selling butt wiping material and clean drawers in the Taliban held region tonight......