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Article: Bush Honors Soldiers, Prepares Them for More; President Tells Members of National Guard He Won't Relent Until Threat Is Removed
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- The Washington Post
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- February 18, 2004
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This time, there can be no dispute: President Bush fulfilled his
duties to the National Guard on Tuesday.
Bush, embattled over gaps in his service to the Guard during the
Vietnam War, flew to the Joint Readiness Training Center here in
central Louisiana to address and to lunch with members of the
National Guard who are about to be deployed to Iraq.
The purpose of the trip was to honor the sacrifice of Americans
fighting, and dying, in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and to gird the
military for more. "My resolve is the same today as it was on the
morning of September the 12th, 2001," Bush told thousands of cheering
soldiers, many of them from a Guard unit heading for Baghdad. "My
resolve is the same ...