Bush To Attend Fund-Raisers, Address American Legion

<snip>At an earlier fund-raising luncheon in St. Paul, Minn., Bush said "terrorists declared war on the United States of America and war is what they got."

"The enemies of freedom are not idle and neither are we," he told about 600 people at the $2,000-per-ticket event at the St. Paul RiverCentre. "This country will not rest, we will not tire and we will not stop until this danger to civilization is removed."

The event put another $1.2 million in the bank for Bush's re-election effort next year, a campaign spokesman said. And it bought those who attended edibles better suited for the ongoing Minnesota State Fair - corn-on-a-stick, chicken fingers, cheesecake-on-a-stick, lemonade, cotton candy and fried pickles.

Bush has raised at least $56 million for his re-election.

The president, on a daylong outing from his ranch in Texas, spoke to the 85th annual convention in between two political fund-raisers.

About 75 people protested outside as Bush's motorcade arrived at the speech site in St. Paul. One sign said, "Admit failure. Beg the U.N. for help." Another said "Search for economic recovery," in a reference to the unsuccessful hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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