Reuters: Bush warns war on terror will require more sacrifice

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06166801.htm

Bush warns war on terror will require more sacrifice

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Struggling to rebuild American support for the Iraq war, President George W. Bush said on Thursday the struggle would require more sacrifice and accused Islamic militants of trying control Iraq as a step toward a radical Islamic empire.

"The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region and establish a radical Islamic empire that expands from Spain to Indonesia," Bush said in a speech.

Bush, speaking to the National Endowment for Democracy, claimed progress in Iraq, which he portrayed as a central front in the U.S. war on terrorism, and vowed the United States would stay on.

"Wars are not won without sacrifice, and this war will require more sacrifice, more time, and more resolve. The terrorists are as brutal an enemy as we have ever faced," he said.

[Skink]

1. What kind of sacrafice?

[Burried News]

3. His daughters would be a good start.

[tompayne1]

5. if they enlisted

that would be the smartest thing he could do right now. he could even give use his influence to make sure they spent all their time at some deskjob. but it would give him a shot in the polls.

[Ilsa]

23. Sacrificing them won't work. They aren't virgins. eom

[ps1074]

7. can it be the top 1% paying more in taxes?

:shrug:

Of course not... what a stupid idea...

[Roland99]

12. How dare you ask the rich to give up their ill-advised tax cuts?!

Why do you hate our freedoms so?

[tularetom]

8. Our jobs, our social security

health insurance and more and more of our kids.

All so the little cowboy can feel like a man.

[FormerDittoHead]

2. As in rolling back tax breaks to the rich and corp power? ANYTHING BUT nt

[Doctor_J]

4. Fewer vacations for Smirk himself?

Cheney actually doing something instead of hsing in his cave? Specifics?

[GrpCaptMandrake]

6. Sure!

More sacrifice from anybody but my own extended family, that is!

"Jenna, not-Jenna, P, Little Jeb, Noelle, y'all hunker down! You ain' goin' NOWHERE. We Bush's don't fight wars, we START them!"

[Marr]

9. Meanwhile- they want to remove the estate tax. Sacrifice, eh?

[jobycom]

10. Oh, now he calls for sacrifice. Why not tell us that before the invasion?

"You will suffer a major recession. You will go in debt by 5 billion dollars a week. I or some future leader will have to take a lot more of your money in taxes to pay for the combination of this war and the billions I am giving to my richest supporters. You will lose a major US city and hundreds of lives because our National Gaurd will be elsewhere. Your health will suffer as your blood pressure rises when you realize that I am truly evil and incompetent and there is nothing you can do to stop me."

We should have heard that speech before the invasion.

[dogday]

11. Maybe the Bush Kids should step forward now

and sacrifice for their country. I know my son is leaving in November to go to Tikrit. How much more sacrifice do you want Bush, he is my only Son? Send all the Bush kids of age to war and then ask the country for their sacrifice....

[Skink]

14. It should be easy to get in now too. No drug tests or anything...

[dogday]

22. Funny, only job in the country where you don't

need a drug test. Does anyone else find this totally wrong.

[emanymton]

13. By Whom? .................. Where Is The Money? ............. Why Me?

Do I smell a draft coming??

[applegrove]

15. Will the rich sacrifice? This time? n/t

[Matariki]

18. sure, they'll sacrifice their slaves.

[dbeach]

16. the gods of war demand blood

bush delivers well

[Matariki]

17. somehow when B* say 'sacrifice'

it brings to mind not noble deeds in a just war, but calves on an altar. i hate to think what 'god' he's children sacrificing to, and to what end.

[greenman3610]

19. Domino theory

"The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region and establish a radical Islamic empire that expands from Spain to Indonesia," Bush said in a speech.


it wasnt true in Vietnam. It's a lie here, too

[Cocoa]

20. more shopping?

[DaveJ]

21. Was he specific as to the nature of the sacrifice?

We already knew he would never let us leave Iraq. Is he referring to anything else?