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Bush to tell UN members to get onboard for terror fight
Saying it`s time for the world to move beyond statements of sympathy for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush goes before the U.N. to argue his case of guilt by association for countries that shield terrorists.
"I'll make the case tomorrow at the United Nations that the time of sympathy is over," Bush told reporters Friday after meeting at the White House with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India. "We appreciate the condolences. Now is the time for action. Now is the time for coalition members to respond in their own way."
Bush is among more than 40 world leaders scheduled to address the U.N. General
Assembly's annual general debate. The session, originally planned for Sept. 24,
was delayed for the first time in the organization's 56-year history because of
the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Bush wants to "rally the world on
behalf of the cause of freedom." The subtext of his message, Fleischer said, is
that Bush expects nations to commit to the eradication of all terrorism and not
limit their solidarity to the pursuit of Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaida terror
network and the Taliban government giving bin Laden and his followers a haven in
Afghanistan.
Bureau Report