From the president who brought you:
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<li>The lack of enron prosecutions (where is ken lay today?)</li>
<li>The patriot act</li>
<li>The blatant flaunting of the Geneva conventions in Guantanomo</li>
<li>Crackdowns on legal protest by creating "protest zones" far from the event</li>
<li>The failed war in Afghanistan, where warlords still control most of the country</li>
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And a whole host of other national problems... We now hear that we need to FIGHT TOTALITARIANISM.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...h_dc&printer=1
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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) condemned this week's suicide bombing attacks in Jerusalem and Baghdad on Saturday as part of militant campaigns to impose a "totalitarian vision."
"These two bombings reveal, once again, the nature of the terrorists, and why they must be defeated," Bush said in his weekly radio address, which was prerecorded.
"Terrorists commit atrocities because they want the civilized world to flinch and retreat so they can impose their totalitarian vision," Bush said.
He said the two bombings were attacks in a war against "every free nation and all our citizens." He vowed to keep fighting and prevail.
A bombing at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on Tuesday killed up to 24 people, including U.N. Iraq (news - web sites) envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. The Jerusalem bus bombing, for which the Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed responsibility, killed 20.
The attacks dealt a blow to Bush's attempts to promote stability across the Middle East following the U.S.-led war to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
The bombing in Iraq fueled speculation the U.S. occupation is facing an influx of Muslim fundamentalist militants sympathetic to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). Bush said on Friday "al Qaeda-type fighters" were now opposing the occupation in Iraq.
Despite the Baghdad attack and ongoing killings of U.S. soldiers, Bush said in his radio address that most of Iraq was moving steadily toward reconstruction and self-governance.
"This progress makes the remaining terrorists even more desperate and willing to lash out against symbols of order and hope, like coalition forces and U.N. personnel," Bush said. "The world will not be intimidated. A violent few will not determine the future of Iraq."
Similarly, he said "murderers" would not decide the future of the Middle East. "A Palestinian state will never be built on a foundation of violence."
Bush wants more countries to send troops to participate in the occupation of Iraq, but faces resistance to a new U.N. mandate to recruit forces without an expansion of the international body's political and economic role in Iraq.
"Terrorists are testing our will, hoping we will weaken and withdraw," Bush said. "Yet across the world, they are finding that our will cannot be shaken. Whatever the hardships, we will persevere," he said.
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