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Posted on 09/22/2005 12:50:55 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Bush: Weak terror response led to 9/11
Sep 22, 2005, 19:00 GMT
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- President Bush said withdrawing from Iraq would be a mistake that would embolden terrorists just as U.S. responses to other attacks led to 9/11 hijackings.
Speaking Thursday at the Pentagon after an update on the war on terror, Bush said a pullback would be seen as weakness and make the United States less safe.
'The terrorists saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings in the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole,' Bush said. 'The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves and so they attacked us.'
It was the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, carried out by al-Qaida operatives, that led Bush to launch the war on terror with an attack on Afghanistan, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden had been given sanctuary. Bush links the fighting in Iraq with the war on terror.
The president said the plan is to follow a strategy of making political gains in the affected counties, while training local personnel to assume security operations.
He's a little late to start rallying the country, I'd say.
LOL :)
Or another way of saying it:
George W. Bush... Saving your ass whether you like it or not!
Couldn't say it better myself.
Thanks for providing the presstitutes' excuse.
I have had a backbone for President Bush and will continue to have 175% support. So have millions of us!!!!!!
President Bush is right . . . and it's about time he said something! If Boy Clinton and Liver-lips Carter had been half as aggressive and strident in fighting foreign enemies as they are now in criticizing the guy who's actually being a president and doing the job of commander-in-chief, we wouldn't have the problems we're facing now.
For two former presidents to carp about the current president's policies--especially during time of war--and for obvious political reasons, why, it's absolutely disgraceful.
But what should we expect from either of them? Clinton was (is) a lying scoundrel and Carter as president was (and remains) an absolute joke.
You know the Democratic party is in tatters when its leading candidate is a manipulative, cynical, amoral shrew, and the only reason that she isn't in there beating the drum with the Kennedy, Carter and her "husband" is that she understands such conduct is reprehensible as well as unpatriotic. When has that recognition ever stopped them?
Didn't encompass Reagan, he got the hostages out and rebuilt the tattered military under Carter into a massive force the Soviets withered with fear from.
And their conclusion was correct as far as the spineless bent one when he was in office.
I got the distinct impression he was pissed off this morning when he gave his news conference. There was a very different tone to his voice and even his walk was different.
major bttt
When did this happen.
I felt the speech he made this morning was definitely made for primetime...
bttt
"He's a little late to start rallying the country, I'd say."
I'm sure you would.
But you would be wrong.
More than anything, Bush's weak defense of his positions has dragged down his approval ratings.
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Ain't that the truth! Maybe he read Novak's column this morning and decided it was time????
Nope. He blamed Carter, Reagan and Clinton equally. Mentioned '79 Tehran, '83 Beirut barracks bombing as well as the Embassies, WTC 93 and the Cole.
Shuck the untouchable shields Carter and Clinton have donned and FIRE truth bullets into their miserable hides.
That's what we want to hear. Give 'em a few more.
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