Sunday, July 29, 2007

The president's speech on the war on terror

In a speech in Carolina yesterday, George Bush discussed the war on terror.
The full text is available here.


But I have taken the liberty of highlighting the important bits.

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To summarise, Iraq, al qaeda, 9/11, bin Laden.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
(I cannot take credit for having done this - there is no way I would have the stomach or time to read one of bush's idiotic speeches - but someone emailed this to me, so I am passing it along.)

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