August 4, 2005

President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror' - New York Times

The President is right. We must be on offense and use all possible means to defeat those who use terrorism as a means to an end. The fight is a war to be fought with conventional and unconventional means.

"Mr. Bush made a nod to the criticism that 'war on terror' was a misleading phrase in the sense that the enemy is not terrorism, but those who used it to achieve their goals. In doing so, he used the word 'war,' as he did at least 13 other times in his 47-minute speech, most of which was about domestic policy.

'Make no mistake about it, this is a war against people who profess an ideology, and they use terror as a means to achieve their objectives,' he said."

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