Bush Speech Transcript

up on White House site. A welcome acknowledgement from the President: The third group [of enemy in Iraq] is the smallest, but the most lethal: the terrorists affiliated with or inspired by al Qaeda . Many are foreigners who are coming to fight freedom's progress in Iraq. This group includes terrorists from Saudi Arabia, and Syria, and Iran, and Egypt, and Sudan, and Yemen, and Libya, and other countries. Our commanders believe they're responsible for most of the suicide bombings, and the beheadings, and the other atrocities we see on our television. Trans-national terrorists are the President's bogey-men—finally admitting they are the minority in the battle of Iraq is an indication the President just might be beginning to understand the true nature of the enemy.