President Bush's Remarks Upon Arrival In Utah

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President Bush's Remarks Upon Arrival in Utah


Utah Air National Guard
Salt Lake City, Utah

9:04 P.M. MDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming out. (Applause.) I can't thank you enough for this fantastic Utah welcome. I am delighted to be here in Salt Lake City. (Applause.) My only regret is that Laura is not here to see this great crowd. (Applause.) She sends her best, she sends her love.

I want to thank the Governor for being here today. Governor, thank you for coming. I want to thank your two fine United States Senators, Senator Hatch and Bennett for joining us. (Applause.) I thank Congressmen Matheson, Bishop and Cannon for being here, as well. I want to thank you all for coming.

Most of all, I want to thank you all for staying up a little past your bedtime, for some of you, to greet me. (Applause.)

I'm looking forward to talking tomorrow to our veterans. (Applause.) I'm going to tell the veterans how much America appreciates their service to the United States of America. (Applause.) And I'm going to thank our veterans for setting such a great example for incredibly fine men and women who wear the uniform of the United States military today. (Applause.)

These are challenging times. I wish I could report to you that all is well. But there's still an enemy that wants to harm the United States of America because of what we stand for. We learned that lesson earlier this month, when because of the good work of our friends in Great Britain, and some of our own help, we stopped a terrorist plot against the United States. This is the challenge of our time, and my most important duty. And the most important duty of our government is to protect the American people from further attack.(Applause.)

No, the most important duty of the government of the United States is to protect and defend the unalienable rights of the people. I'll just quote from that foundational document...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The founding fathers didn't hold the view that the most important duty of government is to protect people from an attack and they most certainly did not view a wholesale assault on the rights of the people as being necessary to protect them from an attack.

We will stay on the offense and defeat the terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them here at home. (Applause.) And as we do so, we'll remember the power of freedom and liberty to transform regions of hate to regions of compassion. I believe there's an Almighty, and I believe the great gift of the Almighty to every man and woman on the Earth is the desire to live in freedom. (Applause.)

We can really see that power of freedom and liberty at work in Iraq can't we. The people can desire anything they like, even in a police state. It is evident President Bush doesn't really believe this otherwise he would not be working to further abbrogate this freedom he speaks of on the home front.

Iraq is the central front in this war on terror. If we leave the streets of Baghdad before the job is done, we will have to face the terrorists in our own cities. We will stay the course, we will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed, and victory in Iraq will be a major ideological triumph in the struggle of the 21st century. (Applause.)

Iraq is now the central front in this war on terror? Really? Come on! Iraq was a dictatorial state whereby Saddam strictly kept the opposing factions in his country at bay, now we have ongoing civil war. First it was weapons of mass destruction and now they are the central front in the war on terror. Give me a break. Oh and here we go... "democracy"... it's that word again. Democracies are not a good thing, they are rule by the mob and whomever can manipulate the minds of the mob will rule over them. George W. Bush should know better than to promote 'democracy' when the USA was founded as a Constitutional Republic.

I firmly believe we'll succeed. We'll succeed in spreading liberty. And as we do so, we can say that this generation did our duty and laid the foundation of peace for generations to come. (Applause.)

This is control not liberty and I see a foundation for violence not peace. Mr. Bush has it all backwards I think. On a different note, it was Marx who once stated that the meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism and it is evident that George W. Bush is a socialist by his support of an expanded government and the way he spends others money.

For those of you with loved ones in the United States military, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. (Applause.) I can't tell you how proud I am to be the Commander-in-Chief of such a fantastic group of young men and women. (Applause.) And I'll make this pledge to you: Our government will make sure your loved ones have all the support, all the help, all the training necessary to do their job of defending freedom, defending America, and spreading liberty that will yield the peace we all want. (Applause.)

Defending freedom? The war in Iraq has nothing to do with freedom. Freedom cannot be imposed on people anyway, people need to be responsible before they can be free. Defending America? What on earth does the war in Iraq have to do with defending America? Iraq was never a threat to the USA. Baloney and bridges for sale here.

So I want to thank you all for coming. It warms my heart to see such a huge crowd. May God bless the great state of Utah, and may God bless America. Thank you all very much. (Applause.)

END 9:09 P.M. MDT

[Tarzan_N]

I just thought that one of my favorit quotes would be perfect here:

" To fight for peace is like fucking for virginety "

[Phil999]

" To fight for peace is like fucking for virginety "

very funny.


When I read this speech of Mr.Bush, I feel like reading in a far-out book from Huxley, Orwell or Stanislav Lem. Unbelieveable.