Comments on: Communicating to the World one Person at a Time http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/communicating-to-the-world-one-person-at-a-time/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:29:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: presidents address http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/communicating-to-the-world-one-person-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-6477 presidents address Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:21:24 +0000 http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/communicating-to-the-world-one-person-at-a-time/#comment-6477 ""In the sixth year since our nation was attacked, I wish I could report to you that the dangers have ended. They have not. And so it remains the policy of this government to use every lawful and proper tool of intelligence, diplomacy, law enforcement and military action to do our duty, to find these enemies and to protect the American people," he said. While Democrats stood silent when the president urged them to accept an ongoing war in Iraq, many seemed receptive to Bush's call to expand the active Army and Marine Corps by 92,000 over the next five years. "A second task we can take on together is to design and establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. And it would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining struggle of our time," he said. Bush also won more enthusiastic reception when he said the U.S. was working with allies to create a nuclear free Korean peninsula, continuing to fund HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa and trying to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur. But if tepid applause is an indicator, lawmakers were skeptical about his insistence that diplomatic negotiations are ongoing to bring about "peace to the Holy Land" and "the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state living side-by-side with Israel in peace and security."" <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246224,00.html" rel="nofollow">fox transcipt</a> “”In the sixth year since our nation was attacked, I wish I could report to you that the dangers have ended. They have not. And so it remains the policy of this government to use every lawful and proper tool of intelligence, diplomacy, law enforcement and military action to do our duty, to find these enemies and to protect the American people,” he said.

While Democrats stood silent when the president urged them to accept an ongoing war in Iraq, many seemed receptive to Bush’s call to expand the active Army and Marine Corps by 92,000 over the next five years.

“A second task we can take on together is to design and establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. And it would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining struggle of our time,” he said.

Bush also won more enthusiastic reception when he said the U.S. was working with allies to create a nuclear free Korean peninsula, continuing to fund HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa and trying to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur. But if tepid applause is an indicator, lawmakers were skeptical about his insistence that diplomatic negotiations are ongoing to bring about “peace to the Holy Land” and “the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state living side-by-side with Israel in peace and security.”"

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