World Trade Center

President George W. Bush's Speech at the National Cathedral on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance
September 14, 2001
We are here in the middle hour of our grief. So many have suffered so great a loss, and today we express our nation's sorrow. We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who love them.

On Tuesday, our country was attacked with deliberate and massive cruelty. We have seen the images of fire and ashes, and bent steel.

Now come the names, the list of casualties we are only beginning to read. They are the names of men and women who began their day at a desk or in an airport, busy with life. They are the names of people who faced death, and in their last moments called home to say, be brave, and I love you.

They are the names of passengers who defied their murderers, and prevented the murder of others on the ground. They are the names of men and women who wore the uniform of the United States, and died at their posts.

They are the names of rescuers, the ones whom death found running up the stairs and into the fires to help others. We will read all these names. We will linger over them, and learn their stories, and many Americans will weep.

To the children and parents and spouses and families and friends of the lost, we offer the deepest sympathy of the nation. And I assure you, you are not alone.

Just three days removed from these events, Americans do not yet have the distance of history. But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

Our purpose as a nation is firm. Yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed, and lead us to pray. In many of our prayers this week, there is a searching, and an honesty. At St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Tuesday, a woman said, "I prayed to God to give us a sign that He is still here." Others have prayed for the same, searching hospital to hospital, carrying pictures of those still missing.

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own.

This world He created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end. And the Lord of life holds all who die, and all who mourn.

It is said that adversity introduces us to ourselves. This is true of a nation as well. In this trial, we have been reminded, and the world has seen, that our fellow Americans are generous and kind, resourceful and brave. We see our national character in rescuers working past exhaustion; in long lines of blood donors; in thousands of citizens who have asked to work and serve in any way possible. And we have seen our national character in eloquent acts of sacrifice. Inside the World Trade Center, one man who could have saved himself stayed until the end at the side of his quadriplegic friend. A beloved priest died giving the last rites to a firefighter. Two office workers, finding a disabled stranger, carried her down sixty-eight floors to safety. A group of men drove through the night from Dallas to Washington to bring skin grafts for burn victims.

In these acts, and in many others, Americans showed a deep commitment to one another, and an abiding love for our country. Today, we feel what Franklin Roosevelt called the warm courage of national unity. This is a unity of every faith, and every background.

It has joined together political parties in both houses of Congress. It is evident in services of prayer and candlelight vigils, and American flags, which are displayed in pride, and wave in defiance.

Our unity is a kinship of grief, and a steadfast resolve to prevail against our enemies. And this unity against terror is now extending across the world.

America is a nation full of good fortune, with so much to be grateful for. But we are not spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender. And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.

On this national day of prayer and remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

As we have been assured, neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, can separate us from God's love. May He bless the souls of the departed. May He comfort our own. And may He always guide our country.

God bless America.

"The enemy has not forgotten, but, many on the left have."

They have forgotten. God help us. Pray for our nation.

I watched the History Channel footage. It makes me just as outraged now, as it did the day it happened.

I just can't decide who I'm the most angry with- the terrorists who attacked us? or the leftists and MSM? Who have done everything in their power to edit and downplay what happened.

The sheeple have been lulled into a false sense of security. Lord only knows what consequences there will be for this.

That said-I also won't ever forget the thousands of ways they (left, MSM) have tried to sabotage our efforts in the WOT .

But there's no point in saying anything else. They will never be called to account for what they did. Our side is just too timid to do it.

Let's have some more praise for Obama and his communist, unrepentant terrorist, bomb-the-Pentagon buddies. Rah! Rah! Yaye! (Sarcasm!) :-(

Please see tag line. Say what you want about President Bush he has been the right man in the right place at the right time.

Let's all pray the country doesn't vote to commit suicide on 11/4/08 by electing FOUT. (Friend Of Unrepentant Terrorist

After-action Report:

US steadily prepares for retaliation as the World braces for American led War on terrorism.
President George W. Bush declares in emergency State of the Union address that any nation not with us is against us.
Hijackers identified and it is learned that they are Al Qaeda terrorists who came from well to do families in Saudi Arabia.
The British are [really] the only ones who stand with us Militarily without hesitation.
American CIA, British MI5, US & British Special Forces introduced into Northern Afghanistan.
War commences.
Al Qaeda smashed in a route.
Afghanistan’s Taliban government easily destroyed.
Afghanistan Liberated.
An estimated 20,000 Al Qaeda & Taliban fighters are dispatched by roughly 300 US Green Berets and US support followed by US Marine and Army line units.
Since the initial invasion period, forces were augmented by troops and aircraft from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway amongst others.
Osama Bin Laden flees Possibly Pakistan Mountains or Muslim dictatorship of Iran [He can Run but...].
Afghanistan garrisoned.
Terrorist groups identified and named by FBI, CIA & US Justice Department.
Terrorist assets around the World seized by US Justice Department.
Terrorists around the World are arrested and “interrogated”.
Captured terrorists are held on Marine Corps base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Iraq, Iran & Korea declared an Axis of Evil by the President.
Plans in the works for the removal of Saddam Hussein from Iraq.
Hundreds if not thousands of Illegal Arab immigrants are deported from the US.
Countless sleeper cells within the US broken as a result.
Republican’s sweep to majority rule in both houses of Congress.
Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) was established in Djibouti at Camp Le Monier.
Under the leadership of Israeli War hero Ariel Sharon, Israel commences its own war against Arab terrorists.
Air assault on Iraq dubbed “Shock & Awe” kicks off and American/British/Australian/Polish forces Invade Iraq and US Forces storm the gates of Baghdad inside of Three weeks.
Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship falls.
Iraqis celebrate.
Saddam Hussein’s two sons Uday and Quesay are trapped and slaughtered by US forces.
Saddam Hussein captured by US Army’s 4th ID after being found hiding in a hole in the ground.
Iraq Begins Process to Elections and writing of secular Constitution.
Libya invites The US & Britain [Note not France, Germany or The UN] to assist in dismantling of it’s WMD programs.
Pakistan’s Top Nuclear Scientist is exposed as having spread Nuclear Technology to rogue dictatorships.
The Democratic Party begins it’s push for the Presidency by nominating John Kerry as their Presidential candidate. Kerry feigns an anti-war stance for the majority extremists within the party while trying to straddle the fence for the rest of America.
Australia is attacked my Muslims for supporting the WOT.
Spain is attacked by Muslims for supporting the WOT [Spanish citizens capitulate and vote in a socialist government that immediately gives the order to remove Spanish troops from Iraq].
Russia is attacked by Muslims demanding autonomy in the Chechen Republic.
Presideent Bush defeats John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
Several Republicans controlling both houses of congress go too far with their corruption. Americans turned off.
House Majority whip; John Boehner is seen passing out checks from lobbyist on the house floor!
House majority leader Tom Delay sacked as a result of corruption.
American people give majority rule to the Democrats in both the House and the Senate. The approval ratings for both bodies proceeds to fall to lowest levels ever seen.
Muslims carry out terrorist attacks and murders across Europe.
a Web-posted message written by Osama bin Laden urged Somalis to build an Islamic state in the country and warned western states that his al-Qaeda network would fight against them if they intervened there.
Ethiopia (supported by US Special Forces & air support) invades Somalia, route Al Qaeda backed unofficial muslim government.
Israel (under a liberal government) invades southern Lebanon, intent on the destruction of Hezbollah. The U.S. government stated the conflict was also a front in the “War on Terror”. The battle is percieved by many as an Israeli defeat.
After enduring months of no verifiable progress General David Petraus is sent to Iraq to manage to war.
Barrack Obama becomes the Democrat nominee for President. John McCain becomes the Republican nominee for President.
Considerable progress is made in Iraq.
Al Qaeda is defeated in Iraq. Moves to Pakistan’s lawless northwestern frontier. Shifts their focus back to destabilizing Afghanistan.

Action Continues...

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