NAMPA, Idaho - President Bush, answering critics who want the United States to leave Iraq, pledged Wednesday that as long as he is president "we will stay, we will fight and we will win the war on terrorism."
In a speech to members of the Idaho National Guard and their families, the second address this week by the president in an effort to rebuild support for the war, Bush emphasized the sacrifices military families make. He noted that Idaho has the highest percentage of National Guard troops serving in Iraq.
"We'll complete our work in Afghanistan and Iraq," Bush said. "An immediate withdrawal of our troops in Iraq, or the broader Middle East, as some have called for, would only embolden the terrorists and create a staging ground to launch more attacks against America and free nations."
"So long as I'm the president we will stay, we will fight and we will win the war on terrorism," he declared.
Bush said the country faced a clear choice after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - either hunker down and retreat or "bring the war to the terrorists, striking them before they could kill more of our people."
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