President Bush speaking at the National Endowment for Democracy
BUSH: Over the years, these extremists have used a litany of excuses for violence: Israeli presence on the West Bank or the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia or the defeat of the Taliban or the crusades of a thousand years ago.
In fact, we're not facing a set of grievances that can be soothed and addressed. We're facing a radical ideology with unalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world.
BUSH: No act of ours invited the rage of the killers, and no concession, bribe or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder.
On the contrary, they target nations whose behavior they believe they can change through violence.
Against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, never give in and never accept anything less than complete victory.
Please, go see what we have NOT done wrong. Go see what acts of ours should not have incited rage. (Those pictures are extremely graphic and I would just like to warn you they will be with you forever.)
As he speaks of the fanatics believing that behavior can only be changed thru violence, I want you to wonder WHO in the HELL he is talking about.
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Bush Says More Sacrifice Needed in the War....I agree. I say let's send his daughters.
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- whateveryouwant
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- 2005-10-06T12:35:36-06:00
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