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April 01, 2009

Bush Fights Back Against Democrats

Via Fox News

President Bush on Friday reiterated the need to defeat extremists seeking to destroy America and other modern governments, saying the "murderous ideology of Islamic radicals" is the great threat of the 21st century.

"No act of ours invited the rage of killers and no concession, bribe or appeasement will change or limit their plans for murder," Bush said of terror networks like the Al Qaeda group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Usama bin Laden. "They target nations whose behavior they believe they can change through violence ... there is only one effective response: We will never back down, we will never give in, we will accept nothing less than complete victory."

During the noon speech in Pennsylvania, Bush began by commemorating Veteran's Day and said today's fight in the War on Terror is one against groups led by "evil men" who he liked to brutal men like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin "consumed whole nations in war or genocide."

"Today our nation pays tribute to our veterans — 25 million vets who have used the uniform of the United States of America," the commander-in-chief said.

"At this hour, a new generation of Americans is defending our flag and our freedom in the first war of this century. This war came to our shores on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. ...We know that they want to strike again and our nation has made a clear choice. We will confront this mortal danger to all humanity. We will not tire or rest until the War on Terror is won."

Via BreitBart

President Bush fires back at critics of the war in Iraq and says "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."

In a Veterans Day speech, Bush offered a forceful defense of the war in Iraq, saying it is the central front in the war on terror and that extremists are trying to establish a radical Muslim empire extending from Spain to Indonesia.

"We will never back down. We will never give in. We will never accept anything less than complete victory," Bush said Friday.

The speech in Monroe County was billed by the White House as a focused counter-attack on critics who say the administration twisted pre-war intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. Bush made reference to criticism from members of Congress and chided Senators who supported his decision to go to war, including his 2004 Democratic rival for president, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).

This speech was just what the doctor ordered; a much needed rebuttal against the amplified attacks that have for too long been left unchallenged.

Here is an excerpt of the money shot:

While it is perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war.

These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs. They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein. They know the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and possession of weapons of mass destruction. Many of these critics supported my opponent during the last election, who explained his position to support the resolution in the Congress this way: 'When I vote to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security.' That's why more than 100 Democrats in the House and the Senate, who had access to the same intelligence voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power.

The stakes in the global War on Terror are too high, and the national interest is too important, for politicians to throw out false charges. These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will. As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them. Our troops deserve to know that this support will remain firm when the going gets tough. And our troops deserve to know that whatever our differences in Washington, our will is strong, our Nation is united, and we will settle for nothing less than victory.

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