War On Terror Going to be 'A Long War': Bush

[sintax]

War on terror going to be ‘a long war’: Bush


WASHINGTON: President George Bush on Wednesday said this week the House of Representatives will vote on legislation to renew the Patriot Act, and added the war on terror "is going to be a long war."

The Patriot Act has accomplished "exactly what it was designed to do," The US president said this in his address at the Port of Baltimore, in Maryland. He said, "the problem is, at the end of this year 16 critical provisions of the Patriot Act are scheduled to expire. All 16 provisions are practical, effective and constitutional, and they are vital to defending our freedom."

He said, "as we saw in London, the terrorists are still active and they are still plotting to take innocent life." "So my message to the Congress is clear: This is no time to let our guard down, and no time to roll back good laws. The Patriot Act is expected to expire, but the terrorist threats will not expire."

He said "I expect, and the American people expect, the US Congress and the Senate to renew the Patriot Act, without weakening our ability to fight terror, and they need to get that bill to my desk soon." "The war on terror is going to be a long war. But freedom is going to prevail... history has always brought us challenges and problems. We’ve always handled them; we’ll handle this one, too."

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/21-07-2005/main/main11.htm

[alfred e bush]

1. borders

keep em open...that should shorten the war...lol

[RC]

2. Stop the war on terror!

Jail the criminals in the White House!

[truthisfreedom]

3. remember 8-31-2004?

In an interview on NBC-TV's "Today" show, Mr. Bush vowed to stay the course in the war on terror, saying perseverance in the battle would make the world safer for future generations. But he suggested an all-out victory against terrorism might not be possible.

Asked "Can we win?" Mr. Mr. Bush said, "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the — those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."

perpetual war. 1984 was just 20 years too early, Aldous.

[dbt]

4. A long and PROFITABLE war, no doubt.

Just brimming over with happy "coincidences" like the London bombing. It's simply AMAZING how bu$hler--and now bLIAR--seem to always get a Terra Attack just when their popularity is at its lowest.

Speaking of which, the Little King's ratings are in the dumpster. And didn't I read yesterday where it's time for another monthlong vacation? Oh, well. You don't "roll out a new product before Labor Day," so we've at least got another month or so before the next Joy Bomb.

:freak:

[July]

5. Taking our names in vain again.

"and the American people expect"

Where'd you hear that, George. He and his gang are always begging the question by presenting their wishes as ours.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. war on terror is bullshit

We have always been at war with eastasia.

At least that war was against a fictional country. The 'war on terra' has no defined enemies, no defined goals, no real objectives.

[natrat]

9. it's like the war on drugs

dea wont touch parcels over 2 kilos or whatever. DEA agents on the ground are like wtf. Agency say it dosent have enough resources to stem the flow.Yet they try to crush marijuana cuz there scummy paws arent in on that. Opium having a banner year in afgh.love is hate,war is peace

[HughBeaumont]

10. Nor has it really even STARTED.

3. He let the terrorists get away while giving them a payraise. The 9/11 hijackers were Egyptians and Saudis recruited by an Egyptian group, Islamic Jihad, with funding from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, some of whom received training at camps which were mostly in Pakistan, all of which were funded by Pakistani secret intelligence. Osama bin Laden, who may have funded all or part of the operation via Al Qaeda, was in Pakistan on 9/11. So who does Bush go after? Afghanistan, at best a back lot of Pakistani-backed Islamists and Iraq--which had nothing to do with 9/11. And what does he do about our real enemies in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia? He sells them more weapons. Egypt becomes the second largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel, collecting over $2 billion annually. Pakistan, ruled by a pro-Taliban general who jailed and tortured his democratically elected predecessor, is encouraged to develop its nascent nuclear capabilities. The 3,000 victims of 9/11 remain unavenged--and the stage is set for future attacks.

4. He murdered nearly 100,000 people. The war in Afghanistan killed at least 10,000 civilians and 20,000 Afghan soldiers (of which 10,000 were POWs allegedly massacred by Northern Alliance soldiers as U.S. Special Forces troops supervised the slaughter.) As of three weeks after the fall of Baghdad, General Tommy Franks estimated Iraqi dead at 30,000 civilians and 30,000 Iraqi soldiers, men who were fighting to defend their country from a hostile invasion army. At least 10,000 more civilians and 5,000 Iraqi resistance soldiers have died since then. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq have anything to do with the war on terrorism, which has yet to start. Both wars were waged to expand American military and economic hegemony and Dick Cheney's policy of "total energy dominance" over oil and natural gas resources. The world would be safer if Charles Manson, a mere amateur killer by comparison, were released and Bush was sitting in prison.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1021-29.htm

[Demeter]

7. Feed the People--Stop the War

If people have something to lose, they don't go to war or let their country go to war. What BushCo does is ignore all that is lost at home and abroad by domestic and foreign policies that punish people for existing.

[ixion]

8. the unPATRIOTic Act is unconstitutional... and wars of abstraction are

nothing more than bogus ploys to turn our republic into a police-state money machine for Big Industry. :grr:

Repeal the unPATRIOTic Act.

End the so-called 'War on Drugs' and 'War on Terror' and let's restore some sanity to our once great republic.