Posted on 09/08/2003 12:33:34 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:16:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
September 8, 2003 -- President Bush went on national television last night and reiterated the obvious: The War on Terror will be a long time in the winning.
"Two years ago, I told the Congress and the country that the War on Terror would be a lengthy war, a different kind of war, fought on many fronts in many places," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It's not an overnight operation. The investment we are making now will lay the ground work for a safer future, if it is permitted to be successful. This future may not stabilize any time soon, but the common man should look beyond himself and look at the future this will build for our children.
Yeah, this one is for the kids. It's for their very ability to have any future at all.
Shame on any Democrat who doesn't see it that way.
Rumsfeld: Absolutely not. This is really a fixation people have. If he wanted more troops, he would have them, believe me. And I would send them. He has said he has about the right number of forces. We have all said it is healthy and good to enlarge the number of international forces, so we have for four months now been all across the globe been talking to something in excess of eighty or ninety countries and we now have 29 physically involved. And we want more. And we think that's a good thing. But mostly what we want, and what General Sanchez wants and want Jerry Bremer wants is more Iraqi forces. We want more force protection, more site protection, more border protection, more police protection in cities by Iraqis. This is their country. The security of their country, and the political future of their country, and the economic advancement of their country is going to be done by Iraqi people. It is not going to be done by nation builders. It is not going to be done by people coming in and fashioning a template and saying "here's how we do it, and therefore you must do it." They're going to figure it out.
8 Secretary Rumsfeld Press Availability in Iraq [w/ Amb. Bremer and Gen. Sanchez, excellent] - DoD | 9/6/03 | Rumsfeld, Bremer, Sanchez, media
Q: General Sanchez, yesterday you talked briefly about the frequency and types of attacks your troops are seeing. I wonder if you could expand on that and why you've come to the determination that you do not need more troops?
Sanchez: I was hoping you'd ask me that question.
The last five days we have had an average of 15 attacks per day. Fifty percent of those attacks were attacks that were conducted at a long range, outside of contact of the American and Coalition forces. The enemy has made a decision to stay away and not engage us other than with improvised explosives that are being remotely controlled, or with mortars where they can escape readily.
The other 50 percent of those attacks are attacks that are being conducted with a combination of small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and improvised explosives.
So seven a day occur where we can engage the enemy and kill them in a near battle, and they last about a minute to two minutes. Now tell me that I have a strategic or an operational or a tactical problem here in this country when I have got 160,000 troops on the ground. Absolutely not. There is no risk at any of those levels, at the tactical, operational or strategic level.
The only way that we will fail here in this country is if we choose to walk away from Iraq and make America the next battleground on the global war on terrorism. That's the only way we can lose. That's the choice we have to make here. I don't need additional forces, and the choice that we need to make is to stay right here and defeat the enemy.
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Too much?
How much did 9/11 cost?
How much would another 9/11 cost?
9/11 cost a trillion: 1,000,000,000,000.
It has depressed the economy for two years.
It killed 3,000 although it was designed to kill 100,000--will the next attack succeed to a greater extent?
Hitlery Rod 'Em and Howard Prissy Dean don't care--to these scumbuckets, all the terrorist attacks possible are all good.
The adults are in charge QED there is a God.
Go W, beat Osama Inc.
Great article with a lot of truth.
I have heard some estimates of the "cost of 911" as being north of $1 trillion. I wish W and company would start laying out those facts.
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