George W. Bush Quotes
The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.
Bush, George W. "Remarks on the Global War on Terror." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush, 2007, Book 2, Government Printing Office, 2010, p. 950.
Most American Muslims condemned the September 11 terrorism in the strongest terms. There were other Muslim leaders throughout the world who also condemned it, but outside of America, they were in the minority.
In most religions, the clerics generally denounce violence especially where innocent people are involved as do many Islamic clerics throughout the world. However, a very large proportion of the Islamic Clergy not only condones violence but actually urges it and uses their interpretation of religious duty to motivate people in that direction. They tend to drown out the pacifistic Muslim clerics and in some cases they call for their death for heresy, thus intimidating many Islamic moderates.
The Security Counsel was meeting it the Situation room at the White House
36 days later, September 11, he did strike. See {617467} for some of the specific contents. The memo was kept secret by the Bush administration until public pressure as a result of the 9-11 Commission hearings forced the declassification and release. At that point it became clear that there was no reason that the memo could not have been released much earlier except that it was embarrassing. See {637530} and {637533} for two other Bin Laden Warnings that Bush and his team ignored.
If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.
Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki. This quotation is very ironic. Maliki was a Shiite Muslim—one of the majority in Iraq that had been ruled by the brutal regime of the minority Sunnis. When the United States invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein and his Sunni regime. Once elected to office he frequently made statements like this urging a pluralistic society which included the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds. However he became more and more of a dictator {640493} and did everything possible to discriminate against and oppress the minority Sunnis and Kurds. His statements of ethnic and religious unity were made to keep obtaining American and other international aid.
There can be a heavy cost in terms of giving up rights, costs of prevention the internal conflict in the society about how to deal with the terrorists.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
