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Bush: 'My Attitude about the World Changed on September the 11th, 2001' |
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Friday, 6 April 2007* "I decided that I would use all the resources at our disposal to protect the American people"
6 April 2007, Turkish Weekly
By Meryem HANIYAR, FORT IRVIN (JTW) - U.S. President George W. Bush visited with the Troops at Fort Irwin, California and said his policies about the world were changed after 9/11 attacks. Bush argued that the world is better without Saddam Hussein:
"This country's life changed on September the 11th, 2001, and my attitude about the world changed that day, too. I decided that I -- that our most important task in Washington was to protect you, protect the American people. And I decided that I would use all the resources at our disposal to do that. Like many Americans, we struggle with understanding with what this attack meant. But if you think about the lead-up to the attack, you think about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, or the extremist attack on our troops in Lebanon, or the embassies in Africa; Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia; or the USS Cole."
"WE CHANGED OUR STRATEGY"
Bush also argued that he sent the American troops to overseas not to see them at home:
"After the attacks of September the 11th I vowed to our country that we wouldn't tire, that we would use whatever it took to protect us. And so we changed our strategy. The strategy is to defeat the enemy overseas so we don't have to face them here at home. The strategy is to find those who would kill Americans and bring them to justice. So for those of you in -- who have been in Afghanistan, you're helping this young democracy recover from a period of time in which brutal extremists provided safe haven to an enemy which attacked the United States. Part of our doctrine is if you harbor a terrorist, you're equally as guilty as the terrorists."
6 April 2007 |
Friday, 6 April 2007
By Meryem HANIYAR, JTW
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