The danger to America requires action on many fronts all at once. We are reorganizing the federal government to
protect the nation against further
attack. The new Department of Homeland Security will gather under one roof the capability to
identify threats, to check them against our
vulnerabilities, and to move swiftly to protect the nation.
At the same time, we realize that wars are never won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the
enemy. We will take every step necessary to make sure our country is
secure, and we will prevail.
Much has happened since the
attacks of 9/11. But as Secretary Rumsfeld has put it, we are still closer to the beginning of this war than we are to its end. The United States has entered a struggle of years -- a new kind of war against a new kind of enemy. The
terrorists who struck America are ruthless, they are resourceful, and they hide in many countries. They came into our country to
murder thousands of innocent men, women, and children. There is no doubt they wish to strike again, and that they are working to acquire the
deadliest of all weapons.
Against such
enemies, America and the civilized world have only one option: wherever
terrorists operate, we must find them where they dwell, stop them in their planning, and one by one bring them to justice.
In Afghanistan, the
Taliban regime and al Qaeda terrorists have met the fate they chose for themselves. And they saw, up-close and personal, the new methods and capabilities of America's armed services. (Applause.) May I say, as a former Secretary of Defense, that I have never been more proud of the America's military..............
.....IIn this war we've assembled a broad coalition of civilized nations that recognize the
danger and are working with us on all fronts. The President has made very clear that there is no neutral ground in the fight against
terror. Those who harbor
terrorists share guilt for the acts they commit. Under the Bush Doctrine,
a regime that harbors or supports terrorists will be regarded as hostile to the United States.
The Taliban has already learned that lesson, but Afghanistan was only the beginning of a lengthy campaign. Were we to stop now, any sense of security we might have would be false and temporary. There is a
terrorist underworld out there, spread among more than 60 countries. The job we have will require every tool at our means of diplomacy, of finance, of intelligence, of law enforcement, and of military power. But we will, over time, find and defeat the
enemies of the United States. In the case of
Osama bin Laden -- as President Bush said recently -- "If he's alive, we'll get him. If he's not alive -- we already got him."
But the challenges to our country involve more than just tracking down a single person or one small group.
Nine-eleven and its aftermath awakened this nation to
danger, to the true ambitions of the
global terror network, and to the reality that
weapons of mass destruction are being sought by determined
enemies who would not hesitate to use them against us.
It is a certainty that the
al Qaeda network is pursuing such weapons, and has succeeded in acquiring at least a crude capability to use them. We found evidence of their efforts in the ruins of
al Qaeda hideouts in
Afghanistan. And we've seen in recent days additional confirmation in videos recently shown on CNN -- pictures of
al Qaeda members training to commit acts of
terror, and testing
chemical weapons on dogs. Those terrorists who remain at large are determined to use these capabilities against the United States and our friends and allies around the world.
As we face this prospect, old doctrines of security do not apply. In the days of the Cold War, we were able to manage the threat with strategies of deterrence and containment. But it's a lot tougher to deter
enemies who have no country to defend. And containment is not possible when dictators obtain
weapons of mass destruction, and are prepared to share them with
terrorists who intend to inflict catastrophic casualties on the United States.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020826.html
This was Cheney,
This is just one speach, ONE. and its not even all of it.
And it was on EVERY MSM network.
They made these speaches ALOT.
This is all Left wing Conspiracy theory though.
Nothing to worry about.
