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By Sridhar Krishnaswami
On a day that was emotion charged, Mr. Bush addressed the nation from Ellis Island, stressing that America will win against "history's latest gang of fanatics". "This nation has defeated tyrants, liberated death camps and raised this lamp of liberty to every captive land. We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power. They are discovering, as others before them, the resolve of a great democracy," Mr. Bush said. "In the ruins of two towers, under a flag unfurled at the Pentagon, at the funerals of the lost, we have made a second promise to ourselves and to the world. We will not relent until justice is done and our nation is secure. What our enemies have begun, we will finish," the President said. It was a difficult day yesterday for Mr. Bush and he made no attempt to fight back the emotions at every one of the three sites that he visited — the Pentagon, Shanksville, Pennsylvania and the World Trade Centre here. The President spent nearly two hours at the World Trade Centre talking to hundreds of relatives of victims who died last year when terrorist hijackers crashed two commercial airliners into the north and south towers killing more than 2,800 people. "America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more, our resolve," Mr. Bush said at Ellis Island. Mr. Bush did not refer to Iraq by name but did have a message for that country and its leader, Saddam Hussein. "... we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilisation with weapons of mass murder. Now and in the future Americans will live as free people, not in fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power," Mr. Bush said. "I believe there is a reason that history has matched this nation with this time. America strives to be tolerant and just. We respect the faith of Islam, even as we fight those whose actions defile that faith. We fight not to impose our will but to defend ourselves and extend the blessings of freedom," Mr. Bush said.
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