President Bush Warns Of Continued Terror Threat
January 12, 2009 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
Eight days before ending his two terms in office as President George W. Bush said “There is still an enemy out there who wants to attack America and Americans.” The homeland is still threatened. That is the most urgent threat facing Barack Obama. He was answering media questions for the last time.
President Bush issued a stern warning about what he called the continuing terrorist threat confronting the nation, using the haunting words of Islamic extremists to support his assertion that they remain determined to attack the United States.
Abandoning his practice of only rarely mentioning al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Bush repeatedly quoted him and purported terrorist letters, recordings and documents to make his case that terrorists have broad totalitarian ambitions and believe the war in Iraq is a key theater in a wider struggle.
“Iraq is not a distraction in their war against America” but the “central battlefield where this war will be decided,” Bush said in an address before the Military Officers Association of America.
Citing the internal communications of terrorists was a dramatic new tactic to advance familiar arguments from Bush in defense of his strategy. The remarks came less than a week before the nation observes the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and two months before midterm elections in which the administration’s national strategy and competence promise to be pivotal questions. That debate was underscored by sharp criticism of Bush yesterday by Democratic congressional leaders.
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I can not always say I liked the way President Bush did things, from time to time there appeared to be no method in the madness, but I am honest enough to say that in the large part President Bush defined responses that had never been encountered before (9/11), and he did so surprisingly well.
The politically correct may not have liked president Bush, as if that mattered to him, he is a man driven by his belief (and I believe history shall prove him right) that we need to tackle the Radical Islamic Terrorism in the face in an unrelenting manner!
One thing I do appreciate President Bush for was having the moral and political courage to take tough decisions that were by no means popular but needed to be taken, so it is with mixed emotions I bid him farewell, in my humble opinion he has demonstrated his abilities as a true leader in what has been a political landscape devoid of such for the last 8 years. No appeasement, believe in you convictions, follow through in your decisions and not being held hostage to opinion polls and armchair warriors, these are some of President Bush’s finest achievement, thank you Mr. President
President Bush for the most part, was a class act.
Oh, sure, he could be a bumbler at times, and sometimes I found it annoying, BUT-
He was able to articulate that fact that terrorism lives and is alive and well and living in the world.
He protected us after 9/11. I happened to unfortunately know some people who were in NYC the day the planes hit the trade towers.
SOME NEVER MADE IT OUT OF THERE THAT DAY. Others unfortunately had to watch it happen, standing by helplessly, and then having to run for their lives.
The Todd Beamer memorial post office is a few steps away from me.
(He was one of the BRAVE plane passengers who got hijacked and took on the terrorists)
Funny, or not funny, the country has forgotten those things over the years, since the Bush Administration did what they had to do to KEEP THE CITIZENS SAFE FROM FURTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS!
And when Americans are safe and protected, they forget. They party and take for granted the freedoms that President Bush so fiercly tried to protect them from. Some bashed him- the ingrates. Others still realize what he did was wise and brave.
THANKYOU PRESIDENT BUSH- SOME OF US WILL ALWAYS KNOW YOU WERE RIGHT-
I, for one, will miss George and Laura Bush.