Presidential Tribute to Memory of 9/11

President Bush delivered a speech yesterday from the oval office at precisely the same minute that he had addressed the nation five years ago on September 11, 2001. In that speech he declare that “those who harbored terrorists would be dealt with as if they were terrorist themselves”. And he has kept his word to those who were murdered that fateful day five years ago.

As could be expected he told what he had done to avenge their deaths, and much of his speech was devoted to the war in Iraq. In the message he spoke of his fears for America, and the dire need we have to “win” that war and secure a stable democratic government in the heart of the Middle East. I believe he spoke from the heart and very much believes that his administration is doing the right thing. I do too. I didn't feel we should race into Iraq with Afghanistan still not secured, but now that we are there (remember it was almost a unanimous vote by both houses of Congress and both parties!) I too feel strongly that we must win the war in Iraq. The President made some statements that we as a nation had better acknowledge as true and act accordingly. Following are some quotes that need no explanation.

** "The Safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the street of Baghdad[/color[color=blue]].“ Mr. Bush said.

** Mr. Bush sought to place the war in Iraq in the context of an epic battle between tyranny and freedom, saying the campaign against global terrorism was “the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century and the calling of our generation.”
** “If we do not defeat these enemies now,” Mr. Bush said, “we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons.”

** Mr. Bush’s language was particularly forceful, even ominous, with warnings of a radical Islamic network that was “determined to bring death and suffering to our homes.”
** Mr. Bush said, “Our nation has endured trials, and we face a difficult road ahead.” And he called for unity, saying, “We must put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us.”

Unfortunately “as soon as the speech was over, the partisanship flared again. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the president “should be ashamed of using a national day of mourning” to justify his Iraq policy. And Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, leader of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, called the address disappointing, saying, “You do not commemorate the tragedy of 9/11 by politicizing it.”

These comments by Senators Kennedy and Schumer were in fact the ones that were “politicizing” the “tragedy of 9/11”. What better way on this fifth anniversary of a terrible terrorist attach on our county that to explain to the nation just how dire the stakes in our war on terror is and begging the Congressmen to come together for the future of our civilization?

These people who were murdered by fanatical thugs are not going to go unpunished. Democratic Senators Kennedy and Schumer should be ashamed of themselves for playing politics, i.e. doing themselves what they accused President Bush of doing.

Source: The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/us/12bush.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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