Bush, Democrats celebrate blow to terror
Radio addresses each ask: What's next?
Saturday, June 10, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush was celebrating "a good week for the cause of freedom," with the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the completion of Baghdad's government, as he huddled with advisers.
"We will determine how to best deploy America's resources in Iraq and achieve our shared goal of an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. "There's still difficult work ahead in Iraq. Yet this week, the ideology of terror has suffered a severe blow."...
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Democrats also celebrated the week's events, but said Bush should use the opportunity to present the country a concrete plan for making it "a year of significant transition."
"Our troops and the American people have been exceedingly patient as previous mileposts in Iraq have passed without progress. The president is asking too much if he expects us to do it again," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said in the Democratic radio address.
"With Zarqawi gone and the Cabinet filled, we need more than platitudes next week when the president convenes a conference with Iraq's leaders and his war Cabinet."...
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