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US will continue to fight and win war on terror: Bush
Washington, June 17: One of the biggest challenges before America is to make sure that `we continue to fight and win the war on terror,` US President George W Bush said on Monday.
Washington, June 17: One of the biggest challenges
before America is to make sure that "we continue to fight and
win the war on terror," US President George W Bush said on Monday.
Addressing small business owners in new jersey, Bush said
the US has got to stay on the offensive in the war on terror
and defended the decision to attack Iraq saying America had
acted on a "threat" from the "dictator of Iraq".
"The best way to protect the homeland is to hunt the
killers down, one at a time, and bring them to justice, which
is what America will do," he said.
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, said Bush,
shocked the US into recognising that oceans can no longer
protect it from harm. "Therefore, it acted because this nation
will not be intimidated or blackmailed by terror."
"This nation," he said, "will do what it takes to defend something we hold dear to our hearts, and that is our freedom. And we acted."
"We acted on a doctrine that says, 'We will bring you to justice because of what you did to the American citizens. And by the way, if you harbour a killer, if you feed a killer, if you hide a killer, you are just as guilty as the killer.'"
"We acted and the Taliban is no longer in power in Afghanistan, which is not only good for the security of the free world, it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in Afghanistan under barbaric rule," Bush said.
This nation, he said, acted on a "threat from the dictator of Iraq".
Bureau Report
"This nation," he said, "will do what it takes to defend something we hold dear to our hearts, and that is our freedom. And we acted."
"We acted on a doctrine that says, 'We will bring you to justice because of what you did to the American citizens. And by the way, if you harbour a killer, if you feed a killer, if you hide a killer, you are just as guilty as the killer.'"
"We acted and the Taliban is no longer in power in Afghanistan, which is not only good for the security of the free world, it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in Afghanistan under barbaric rule," Bush said.
This nation, he said, acted on a "threat from the dictator of Iraq".
Bureau Report