Bush: U.S. won't relent in war on terror

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer 

WEST POINT, N.Y. - The U.S. will take the fight against terrorism to every shore 
and outpost in pursuit of enemies like none before, not relenting until their 
defeat and showing the same resolve that won the Cold War, President Bush told West Point graduates Saturday.

"America will fight the terrorists on every battlefront. And we will not rest until 
this threat to our country has been removed," the commander in chief said in 
his commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy.

"Against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never 
back down, we will never give in, and we will never accept anything less than 
complete victory," Bush said.

Because, in the Bushian view which he has repeatedly stated, you're either with him or against him.

Worse, President Putin recently mentioned that he will start up the Cold War again because, I suspect, he realizes that America has an easily manipulated fanatic at the helm and this fanatic has not ruined the infrastructure of America but divided the country as well. In short, we are - thanks to Bush - MORE vulnerable than ever. With Bush acting as a strutting bully he has united more of the world against us if not overtly than covertly. We're stretched militarily, depressed morally and ethically, and politically sick.

Bush is trying to sound like Winston Churchill - tough and inflexible - but comes across as a one-note Willy. It's time to change the tune and the player.