Bush at Heritage: No letup in the war on terror
November 1, 2007 | By Nathaniel Ward
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President Bush speaks at The Heritage Foundation about the war on terror. |
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Speaking Thursday at The Heritage Foundation, President Bush called on lawmakers to fund the troops in combat, confirm his Attorney General nominee, and give intelligence agencies the tools they need to win the war on terror.
Watch the video of the President’s speech at Heritage.
“On every battlefront we’re on the offense, keeping constant pressure,” the President said today in Heritage’s Allison Auditorium. “And in this war on terror, we will not rest or retreat or withdraw from the fight until this threat to civilization has been removed.”
Read the President’s full remarks.
“Here’s the bottom line,” he continued:
This is no time for Congress to weaken the Department of Justice by denying it a strong and effective leader. It’s no time for Congress to weaken our ability to gather vital intelligence from captured terrorists. It’s no time for Congress to weaken our ability to intercept information from terrorists about potential attacks on the United States of America. And this is no time for Congress to hold back vital funding for our troops as they fight al Qaeda terrorists and radicals in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But many liberals in Congress, he argued, are beholden to radicals groups that don’t believe we’re at war at all.
Bush, the first sitting president to speak at The Heritage Foundation’s headquarters on Capitol Hill, also took a moment to compliment Heritage. “The folks here have been tireless advocates, tireless champions of liberty and free enterprise and democracy and religious freedom,” he said. Heritage experts, he added, are “people who are willing to look at today’s problems and come up with innovative solutions based upon sound principles to solve those problems.”
He concluded his remarks by highlighting Heritage’s status as a permanent institution in Washington defending conservative principles. “I believe 50 years from now an American president will be speaking to Heritage and say, Thank God that generation that wrote the first chapter in the 21st century understood the power of freedom to bring the peace we want.”
Full coverage of the President’s remarks
- Read news coverage of President Bush’s speech from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press (and in a separate AP article as well), Reuters, CNN.com, United Press International, MSNBC.com, Bloomberg, National Journal and National Public Radio.
- View news photos from the event.
In other news
- With Congress unable to pass meaningful immigration controls, several states are cracking down on illegal immigration.
- Congress may cut funding for missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Heritage’s Sally McNamara explains why this is a bad idea in a Heritage video.
- Heritage President Ed Feulner was rated among the top 50 American conservatives in a new listing by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper.
- Wednesday’s e-mail misstated when President Bush last spoke to a Heritage audience. He addressed President’s Club members in November 2003.
Coming up at Heritage
To attend these or any other Heritage Foundation events, RSVP at Heritage’s events website. Or you can watch these events live online at Heritage.org. All times are Eastern.
- On Friday, Nov. 2 at noon, author Paul Kengor discusses his new book on Bill Clark’s close relationship with President Reagan.
- On Monday, Nov. 5 at noon, British Crown Judge Inigo Bing speaks at The Heritage Foundation about over-criminalization in his country.
- On Tuesday, Nov. 6 at noon, John West of the Discovery Institute looks at how liberal notions of “scientific” solutions to our problems ended up dehumanizing politics and culture.
Nathaniel Ward is the Editor of MyHeritage.org—a website for members and supporters of The Heritage Foundation. Colin Gowan contributed to this report.
