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> On 6 Feb 2004 13:17:10 -0800,
[email protected] (Jerry Johnson) wrote:
> Now what country will Bush invade to SAVE the people of that nation from living under a terrible
> leader? North Korea? Zimbawe?
Maybe Tony Blair wasn't so sure (and for some reason couldn't be bothered to ask) about the real
nature of the "imminent threat" of the 45min deployable WMD, but in the words of GWB:
When we're talking about war, we're really talking about peace
Almost every day is a new phase, in some ways, because we're reminding different countries which may
be susceptible to al Qaeda, that you're either with us or against us. And so we're constantly
working on bolstering confidence amongst some nations which may sometimes forget that either you're
with us or you're with the terrorists. That's kind of a -- that's a phase, I guess you could say.
Phase one was Afghanistan, phase two is to make sure that other countries don't become places for
training or places where the al Qaeda think they can hide. -- press conference with President of
Poland, White House, July 17, 2002
with Senators and Condoleeza Rice (as reported in Time Magazine, Mar. 24,
2003)
We're at war to keep the peace. -- White House, Mar. 13, 2002
Saddam Hussein is a threat to our nation. September the 11th changed the strategic thinking, at
least, as far as I was concerned, for how to protect our country. My job is to protect the
American people. It used to be that we could think that you could contain a person like Saddam
Hussein, that oceans would protect us from his type of terror. September the 11th should say to
the American people that we're now a battlefield, that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of
a terrorist organization could be deployed here at home. -- prime time press conference, White
House, Mar. 6, 2003
I described them [Iraq] as the axis of evil once. I described them as an enemy until proven
otherwise. They obviously, you know, desire weapons of mass destruction. -- Ridgewood Country Club,
Waco, Texas, Mar. 10, 2003
It's a war in which we will hunt down those who hate America, one person at a time. -- Washington,
D.C., Mar. 4, 2003
We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing we not only freed the American
people, we made our own people more secure. -- Crawford, Texas, May 3, 2003
The [military] academies are really important for a lot of reasons. Obviously, what you learn on the
football field is even more important since we're still at war. -- Washington, D.C., May 16, 2003
We learned a lesson September the 11th, and that is, our nation is vulnerable to attack. The best
way to secure America is to get the enemy before they get us, and that's what's happening in Iraq.
-- Crawford, Texas, Aug. 8, 2003
It is important for the Iraqi leadership and Iraqi generals to clearly understand that if they take
innocent life, if they destroy infrastructure, they will be held to account as war criminals. --
Washington, D.C., Feb. 25, 2003
America and our allies are called once again to defend the peace against an aggressive tyrant, and
we accept this responsibility. -- Kennesaw, Georgia, Feb. 20, 2003
I think that we believe there are chemical weapons in Syria. -- Washington,
D.C., Apr. 13, 2003
I had -- I was there on September 11th, 2001, at Offutt. I remember their motto. It says, 'The Sun
Never Sets on the Fighting 55th.' And that's good for the defense of the country, by the way. --
Washington, D.C., Nov. 25, 2002
I want you to think about a scenario in which he becomes the arsenal and the training grounds for
shadowy terrorists so that he can attack somebody he hates and not leave any fingerprints behind. --
St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 4, 2002
This is a man who continues to murder his own people, a man who has gassed ... a man who has used
chemical weapons on his neighbors, a man who has invaded two countries, a man which hates -- who
hates America, a man who loves to link up with al Qaeda, a man who is a true threat to America, to
Israel, to anybody in the neighborhood. -- Phoenix, Arizona, Sep. 28, 2002
[Saddam Hussein is] a man who invaded two countries twice -- two countries, once each time. --
Washington, D.C., Sep. 25, 2002
This is one of these kind of wars where things happen and you just don't know about it. But I bet we
have hauled in over a couple of thousand of these people. -- South Bend, Indiana, Sep. 5, 2002
And speaking about hauling them in, the United States and our coalition and friends have pulled in
over a couple of thousand of them. And there's another couple of thousand that weren't quite so
lucky. -- Central Point, Oregon, Aug. 22, 2002
It's a different kind of war because we're fighting people who are -- they send youngsters to their
suicidal deaths and they try to find a dark cave. They're kind of lurching around in the dark
corners of some cities around the world. They're in over 60 countries. And slowly but surely, we're
dismantling the terrorist network, which hates us because of what we love. See, they hate the fact
that we love freedom. They can't stand the fact that in this country people can worship the almighty
God any way he or she sees fit. -- Shreveport, Louisiana, Dec. 10, 2002
They hide in caves. See, this is a different kind of war. And part of my responsibilities as your
President is to remind people about the realities that we face in America. One of the realities is,
is that these people hide in caves. -- South Bend, Indiana, Sep. 5, 2002
They act out of hatred. We don't seek revenge. We seek justice out of love. -- Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, Aug. 29, 2002
There's a lot of war talk these days, as there should be, but it's all aimed at making sure the
world is peaceful. -- Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, July 18, 2002
You know, I was just reflecting the other day, we've only been at this for -- we've haven't even
been fighting this war for a year yet. And we've got a lot of work to do. And there will be moments
where the al Qaeda thinks that, you know, maybe America is not after them, and they'll feel safe and
secure. And, you know, they think they'll kind of settle into some cave somewhere. -- White House,
May 30, 2002
We're a peaceful nation and moving along just right and just kind of having a time, and all of a
sudden, we get attacked and now we're at war, but we're at war to keep the peace. -- White House,
Mar. 13, 2002
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In pace, iustitia omnibus.