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Bush vows spend whatever necessary { September 7 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39436-2003Sep7.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39436-2003Sep7.html Bush Vows to Spend What Is Necessary to Win War Reuters Sunday, September 7, 2003; 6:17 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will say in a speech to the nation on Sunday night that crushing a guerrilla campaign in Iraq will take time and require sacrifices, and he will vow to spend whatever is necessary for victory. According to speech excerpts released by the White House, Bush also will say members of the United Nations "now have an opportunity, and the responsibility, to assume a broader role in assuring that Iraq becomes a free and democratic nation." Bush, in a speech he will deliver at 8:30 p.m. EDT, will say that recent bombings in Iraq are aimed at forcing the United States to leave the country. "There is more at work in these attacks than blind rage. The terrorists have a strategic goal. They want us to leave Iraq before our work is done. They want to shake the will of the civilized world," he will say. Bush will offer a stay-the-course commitment to Iraq, calling it part of the war on terrorism although no conclusive evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction has been found and no substantive links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda have been established. "Enemies of freedom are making a desperate stand there, and there they must be defeated. This will take time, and require sacrifice," he will say. "Yet we will do whatever is necessary, we will spend what is necessary, to achieve this central victory in the war on terror, to promote freedom and to make our nation more secure," Bush will say. The president will call on members of the United Nations to contribute to help Iraq as his administration seeks support among Security Council allies for a draft resolution backing a multinational force for Iraq. "Iraq is ready to take the next steps toward self-government," he will say. According to the excerpts, Bush will say the stakes are high; that the Middle East "will either become a place of progress and peace, or it will be an exporter of violence and terror that takes more lives in America and in other free nations." "The triumph of democracy and tolerance in Iraq, in Afghanistan and beyond, would be a grave setback for international terrorism," he sill say. © 2003 Reuters

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