Bush: America Facing Choice in War Against Terrorism

Thursday, October 16, 2003

By Kathleen T. Rhem

American Forces Press Service

"I believe America has only one option. We will fight the war on terror until it is won."

-- President Bush

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
President Bush today thanked the United Nations Security Council for passing a resolution supporting efforts to rebuild Iraq, and said the United States is facing a choice in the war on terror.

"A democratic Iraq will stand as an example to all the Middle East," Bush said during a speech in San Bernardino, Calif. "We believe, and the Iraqi people will show, that liberty is the hope and the right of every land."

After ousting terrorist regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, it would be easy for Americans to become complacent, he said, but, the president cautioned, "The danger has not passed."

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, terrorists have struck in Casablanca, Morocco; Mombassa, Kenya; Jerusalem; Amman, Jordan; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Baghdad, Iraq; New Delhi, India; and Bali and Jakarta, Indonesia.
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