We were so fortunate to have had a man of great conviction in office when we were attacked by those radical Islamic terrorists on 9/11. When he said, "our response must be sweeping, sustained and effective", he meant it, and he stuck to it; he did not relent.
You must also remember that he said, "You will be asked for your patience; for the conflict will not be short. You will be asked for resolve; for the conflict will not be easy. You will be asked for your strength, because the course to victory may be long." Do you remember him saying those words? I do, and I have given him those three things.
Just think about the weak response that someone like Al Gore would have had after 9/11, it would have been a joke. Dying of laughter would have been the only danger the Taliban would have faced with a Gore war on terror. Gore would say: "What does the U.N. think? We have to get it approved by the U.N. We do not want to risk angering the world; we need their blessing before we act." It would have been a fiasco; we would all likely be dead by now.
One thing that a lot of people do not understand is that you can't go back and do it again, and you do not know how it would have turned out if you would have done it differently, you only get one chance. The liberals say that if we had done things their way, then everything would be just fine; that's a load of bull. Like I wrote above, we might all be dead right now if we did things their way, nobody knows.
One thing I've learned in life is - don't second guess yourself. As long as you made your decision with both eyes open, and with all of the information that you could gather, then you must not regret that decision, because you have no way of knowing how it would have turned out if you had decided differently; stick to your guns. You will of course have to modify how you execute your decision depending on developing circumstances, but you should never take your eye off of the target, and you should never give up until the job is complete.
President Bush's number one responsibility is to protect our country from foreign threats, and I would say that he has done an excellent job of it. Starting at 12:00pm next Tuesday, all that will be standing between us, and the ones who would see us all dead, will be President Obama. Let us hope he will do as good of a job as President Bush has done.
jbranstetter04
Fact Sheet: President Bush Has Kept America Safe
President Bush Fundamentally Reshaped Our Strategy To Protect The American People
On December 17, 2008, President Bush visited the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and discussed efforts to protect the security and liberty of the American people. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush took the fight to the enemy to defeat the terrorists and protect America. The President deployed all elements of national power to combat terrorism, which had previously been considered primarily a "law enforcement" issue. He transformed our military and strengthened our national security institutions to wage the War on Terror and secure our homeland. The President also made missile defense operational and advanced counter proliferation efforts to help prevent our enemies from threatening us, and our allies, with weapons of mass destruction.
Secured the Homeland
•Protected our Nation and prevented another attack on U.S. soil for more than seven years, modernized our national security institutions and tools of war, and bolstered our homeland security. Under the President's watch, numerous terrorist attacks have been prevented in the United States. These include:
An attempt to bomb fuel tanks at JFK airport;
A plot to blow up airliners bound for the East Coast;
A plan to destroy the tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles;
A plot by six al Qaeda inspired individuals to kill soldiers at Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey;
A plan to attack a Chicago-area shopping mall using grenades; and
A plot to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago.
•Arrested and convicted more than two dozen terrorists and their supporters in America since 9/11.
•Froze the financial assets in the United States of hundreds of individuals and entities linked to terrorism and proliferation.
•Doubled the Border Patrol to more than 18,000 agents, equipped the Border Patrol with better technology and new infrastructure, and effectively ended the process of catch and release at the border. Increased border security and immigration enforcement funding by more than 160 percent and constructed hundreds of miles of fencing and vehicle barriers...
Waged the Global War on Terror
•Removed the Taliban from power and brought freedom to the 25 million people of Afghanistan.
•Freed 25 million Iraqis from the rule of Saddam Hussein, a dictator...
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