Posted on 10/31/2009 12:27:35 PM PDT by kristinn
New Delhi - Former US president George W Bush on Saturday warned that the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan must be won else the world would face "serious threats."Addressing a conference in New Delhi, Bush said defeating the radical Islamic groups was necessary to stop a return to "brutal tyranny" in that country.
"The mission in Afghanistan has been long and difficult and costly but I believe it is necessary for stability and peace," he told the conference organized by the Hindustan Times.
"If the Taliban, al-Qaeda and their extremist allies were allowed to take over Afghanistan again, they would have a safe haven and the Afghan people, particularly the Afghan women, would face a return to a brutal tyranny," he said.
"The region and the world would face serious threats."
Bush made the comments as President Barack Obama reviews the US strategy in Afghanistan, before deciding on a military requests to send tens of thousands more troops to the war-torn country.
Bush was confident that the US would bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. "He's not leading any victory parades. He's not on TV espousing his views, he's hiding ... and yes, he'll be brought to justice," he said.
On his second visit to India, Bush is very popular in the South Asian country for building close bilateral ties that included a landmark nuclear deal which ended a three-decade ban on civilian nuclear trade to India.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosted Bush at lunch Friday and described him as a "great friend of India."
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The war in Afghanistan needs to be fought to Stop Jihad Now!.
“The war in Afghanistan needs to be fought to Stop Jihad Now!.”
YES!
And we must be careful about WHO is writing our legislation.
Obama gets list of top Muslim Americans
Denver Post Wire Report
Posted: 03/27/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT
Updated: 03/27/2009 12:58:19 AM MDT
CHICAGO — In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation’s most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House.
The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was bumped up two weeks because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, who sifted through more than 300 names.
“It was mostly under the radar,” Williams said. “We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn’t know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community.”
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12006596
"The region and the world would face serious threats."
Every word true.
I really miss having Dubya as our President.
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I’m glad he’s saying something.
I disagreed with Bush about some things (basically, I just thought he was way too accommodating in dealing with the Dems) but I always trusted him and felt he had the best interests of the US at heart. This is the furthest thing possible from the mind of the Marxist Muslim who currently occupies the WH.
True, and was not bashing Obama like former presidents were want to do of President Bush. (And least from the quotes.) However, I wish SOMEBODY would tell Obama to “fish or cut bait” on the Afghanistan plan.
The left doesn’t care. they’re preoccupied with bankrupting America in the name of progress.
I voted for you twice, you had 8 years, toward the end like your father you where inflicted with the cancer called liberalism and suckered into thier bi partisanship scheme which led to the situation we have now with marxists in the Whitehouse who are destroying our country, thanks! Now I will say what we have been saying to Carter, shut up and sit down, we have to clean up the mess!
WTH is he doing in India? Trying to outsource the rest of our jobs?
I wish he’d said this earlier (the part about the “ideological struggle”). Bush started off strong after 9/11 but the Dems basically made him shut up and trim his sails to their wind. It is an ideological struggle, and I’m glad he’s saying it now.
Then He should Have won it then,Instead of making America a satellite of Mexico .
President Bush was a good president and an even better man. I really miss him.
But we still have Jeb. Hopefully he will run and be Sarah’s VP candidate.
Oh, oh! Now you’ve done it! The anti-Bush fiends will be after you now on here! They come to every thread and dump stinky stuff all over you, they’ll give you no peace! They’ll go after you, haunting you-screaming: “NO MORE BUSHES!!”!
How I do go on, huh?
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