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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Bush pledges 'no retreat' from Iraq

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ST. LOUIS -- President Bush yesterday vowed "no retreat" from guerrilla attacks on American soldiers in Iraq and criticized world leaders for opposing U.S. efforts to rid the world of terrorism, saying "no nation can be neutral in the struggle between civilization and chaos."

Declaring the current struggle in Iraq a "point of testing in the war on terror," the president told a group of war veterans that "the more progress we make in Iraq, the more desperate the terrorists will become."

"They have declared war on the entire civilized world," he said, alluding to last week's deadly attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

"The civilized world will not be intimidated. Retreat in the face of terror would only invite further and bolder attacks. There will be no retreat. We are on the offensive," he said, drawing applause from thousands gathered for the 85th annual convention of the American Legion.

Reiterating a tenet of the Bush Doctrine, which he laid out shortly after the September 11 attacks, the president said the United States must take the battle to terrorists around the world, despite the risk to U.S. soldiers.

"We've adopted a new strategy for a new kind of war," he said. "We will not wait for known enemies to strike us again. We will strike them in their camps or caves or wherever they hide, before they hit more of our cities and kill more of our citizens."

Addressing critics on Capitol Hill who have begun to suggest the United States pull troops out of Iraq, Mr. Bush said such a move would jeopardize the safety of Americans.

"The stakes could not be greater for the American people," he said. "Our military is confronting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and in other places so our people will not have to confront terrorist violence in New York, or St. Louis or Los Angeles," he said.

The president also had harsh words for international opponents of the war in Iraq -- which include France, Germany and Russia, each of which continues to oppose new efforts to spread the work in rebuilding the nation.

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