WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- President Bush Thursday made an impassioned justification for continuing the war in Iraq calling the conflict central to the overall war on terror.
Several times in a speech before the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, Bush said the United States would not waiver in its fight against terror, since militants take any lack of determination as a sign of weakness.
He outlined a five-prong strategy in the fight against terror starting with preventing attacks by terror networks and including a plan to stop terror groups' recruiting.
The other parts of the strategy are not allowing weapons of mass destruction to reach "outlaw regimes and their terrorist allies," denying "radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes," and denying militants control of any country they may try to use as a base for launching attacks.
"The United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them because they're equally guilty of murder," Bush said. "Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization, and the civilized world must hold those regimes to account.
