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President Honors Veterans of Foreign Wars at National Convention Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Lake City, Utah President Bush Honors America's Veterans and Soldiers 11:17 A.M. MDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Thank you all very much. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's a pleasure to be back here in Salt Lake City, Utah. And I'm proud to again stand with the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Thanks for having me. (Applause.) I really enjoy coming to these conventions. Members here come from all walks of life and you do vital work across our country. I know firsthand the spirit...

RUSH: Frank in Parkville, Maryland, nice to have you on the program, sir. Welcome. CALLER: Thank you. Rush, I'm a liberal Democrat, and I disagree with Chuck Hagel. I listened to him yesterday on the talk show, and I think he's totally wrong about pulling out or even setting timetables. Now, I didn't agree about going into Iraq. I thought it was all phony, but we're there. We "broke it," and as General Powell said, we gotta fix it. It's ours. We own it. So the only way to do it with honor is to seal the borders of Iraq...

Remarks by President Bush to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National ConventionMonday August 22, 3:43 pm ET WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The following are remarks by President Bush to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention: Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Lake City, Utah 11:17 A.M. MDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Thank you all very much. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's a pleasure to be back here in Salt Lake City, Utah. And I'm proud to again stand with the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Thanks for having me. (Applause.)I really enjoy coming to these conventions. Members...

  For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryAugust 20, 2005 President's Radio Address      Audio      THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. In a few weeks, our country will mark the four-year anniversary of the attacks of September the 11th, 2001. On that day, we learned that vast oceans and friendly neighbors no longer protect us from those who wish to harm our people. And since that day, we have taken the fight to the enemy. We have combated terrorists on the home front by disrupting terror cells and their financial support networks. We're fighting the terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: John in San Diego, you're next. Welcome to the program. Nice to have you with us. CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: I believe that Cindy Sheehan is bringing up one important point, though. RUSH: What's that? CALLER: If this is a valiant and noble cause, why don't we have [sic] any senators sons or House of Representatives sons volunteering to go over there? Why isn't the president's daughters doing something for the war effort, if this is such a valiant effort? And that's the primary purpose that she has made this...

O‘DONNELL: I‘m sure also the president did not anticipate that while he was spending a five-week vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, that he would be witnessing a mom, Cindy Sheehan, who has been camped outside his ranch now, demanding a meeting with the president, saying she won‘t leave until that happens. Christopher, do you think that this represents—or she represents some sort of tipping point in public opinion in America? HITCHENS: Certainly not. She has, just today, lied about a statement that she made several times before to the effect that her son was killed in a war...

Native Hawaiians Seek Self-governing Body Sen. Akaka quote: Bill Could Mean Eventual Independence for Hawaiians By National Public Radio, 8/17/2005 8:22:38 AM Editor's Note: Here is the complete National Public Radio transcript from Aug. 16, 2005 with Anchor Steve Inskeep, Reporter Martin Kaste and various guests. This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. Congress is considering legislation that would give native Hawaiians their own government. It would essentially grant them political status similar to that of Native American tribes. Here's NPR's Martin Kaste. (Soundbite of surf; birds) MARTIN KASTE reporting: You'll find no more potent symbol of...

Statement United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary The Consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton June 23, 2005 The Honorable Sam Brownback United States Senator , Kansas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR SAM BROWNBACK CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING: “THE CONSEQUENCES OF ROE V. WADE AND DOE V. BOLTON” JUNE 23, 2005 I am pleased to call to order this Constitution Subcommittee hearing on the consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, and thank Ranking Member Feingold, the witnesses, and those in attendance for their participation. America was...

Radio Address by President Bush to the Nation WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of a radio address by President Bush to the nation: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week I met in Texas with Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and the rest of my senior foreign and defense policy advisors. We discussed recent events in Iraq, including the political progress that is taking place in that country. Despite the acts of violence by the enemies of freedom, Iraq's elected leaders are now finishing work on a democratic constitution. Later this year, that...

Should Cindy Sheehan accept Pres. Bush's response and go home? Damn straight.

Clinton BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This Able Danger story, and the 9/11 Commission... I am stunned. I am stunned. I can't find this at the top of any news organization's web page or newspaper. The Washington Post has a story today: "September 11th Panel Explores Allegations About Atta." It appears on page A-9. The New York Times has a story today: "9/11 Panel Decided to Omit a Reference to Atta." They just run an AP story on it. They don't even write it themselves, and I can't tell you where in the paper it appeared except it's not on the front...

Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 11:14 a.m. EDT Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits A year before the 9/11 attacks, Clinton administration lawyers told a group of military intelligence officers that information they had developed on 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta could not be shared with the FBI, saying of Atta himself: "You can't even touch him - it doesn't matter what information you have." Rep. Curt Weldon, who helped develop the military intelligence group code-named "Able Danger," delivered the bombshell revelation in an interview Thursday with WABC Radio host Sean Hannity. WELDON: In September of 2000 we tried on three occasions to...

[Congressional Record: June 27, 2005 (House)] [Page H5243-H5250] From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:cr27jn05-122] U.S. INTELLIGENCE The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McHenry). Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 2005, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is recognized for 44 minutes. [[Page H5244]] Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to discuss for the next 45 minutes the most important topic that will allow us to protect the homeland, provide for the security of the American people and our allies and our troops around the world: our intelligence. Last Thursday, Mr. Speaker,...

-SNIP-THE PRESIDENT: Withdrawing before the mission is complete would send a signal to those who wonder about the United States' commitment to spreading freedom. You see, I believe and know that we're at war, and we're at war against a hateful ideology. And the way to defeat that ideology in the long-term is to spread a hopeful ideology, one that says to young girls, you can succeed in your society, and you should have a chance to do so; one that says to moms and dads, you can raise your child in a peaceful world without intimidation; and one that...

"...So it's my clear belief that the wall itself developed this culture which restrained in a substantial way the exchange of information in the intelligence and law enforcement communities. The Bellows report, which was part of some recommendations following the Wen Ho Lee case, indicated that it was part of the culture at the FBI that if one made a mistake and shared information that was later deemed to be inappropriate, it was called a career- ender, so that the risk of a person sharing information improperly was at least known in the culture of the law enforcement community to...

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation...is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks...

RUSH: All right, now to this 9/11 business. We have some audio sound bites here from Congressman Curt Weldon to go along with this story. I've got two versions of the story, one is by the Associated Press, the other is in the New York Times. I wanted to give you highlights of both. The AP story: "The Sept. 11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaeda cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law...

SEC. RUMSFELD: Good afternoon, folks. Q Welcome back. SEC. RUMSFELD: Thank you. Some 60 years ago, with the war in Europe turning against them, Hitler's forces faced defeat, and in desperation, the Nazi regime carried out some of the most indiscriminate acts of violence that had been seen during the war. With allied forces closing in on Berlin, Hitler ordered destruction of German infrastructure, and sent Germans, even very young children, Germans, out to face almost certain death as soldiers. If Germans were no longer willing to shed their own blood to ensure their right to survival, Hitler said, they...

Sunday, August 7, 2005 Text: Netanyahu's Resignation Letter [Unofficial translation by IMRA] 7 August 2005 Mr. Ariel Sharon Prime Minister Jerusalem Sir; From the first conversation when you presented your plan to me, I told you that I oppose unilateral withdrawal without anything in return, that in my estimation will strengthen the forces of terror. As a minimum I asked for the inclusion of the settlement blocs within the security fence before the beginning of the withdrawal and the holding of the Philadephi Corridor in our hands. In this way we would be neutralizing the impression that we are running...