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It's Very Important To Go Back And Keep In Mind The Distinction Between Handling These Events As Criminal Acts, Which Was The Way We Did Before 9/11, And Then Looking At 9/11 And Saying, 'this Is Not A Criminal Act,' Not When You Destroy 16 Acres Of Manhattan, Kill 3,000 Americans, Blow A Big Hole In The Pentagon. That's An Act Of War.

Europeans Know That Their Great Experiment In Building Peace, Unity And Prosperity Cannot Survive As A Privileged Enclave, Surrounded On Its Outskirts By Breeding Grounds Of Hatred And Fanaticism.

We're Fighting A War On Terror Because The Enemy Attacked Us First, And Hit Us Hard. ... Al Qaeda's Leadership Has Said They Have The Right To Kill Four Million Americans,... For Nearly Six Years Now, The United States Has Been Able To Defeat Their Attempts To Attack Us Here At Home. Nobody Can Guarantee That We Won't Be Hit Again.

In Iraq, A Ruthless Dictator Cultivated Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Means To Deliver Them. He Gave Support To Terrorists, Had An Established Relationship With Al Qaeda, And His Regime Is No More.

After 9/11, It Became Clear That We [the United States] Had To Do Several Things To Have A Successful Strategy To Win The Global War On Terror, Specifically That We Had To Go After The Terrorists Wherever We Might Find Them, That We Also Had To Go After State Sponsors Of Terror, Those Who Might Provide Sanctuary Or Safe Harbor For Terror.