Democracy for Vancouver

Fill in Bush’s speech today at the Heritage Foundation using only these 16 terms*:

America/American
Applause
attack/attacked
danger/dangerous
death
enemy/enemies
free/freedom
Laughter
liberty
radical/radicals/radicalism
September 11th/September the 11th or 9/11
terrible
terrorist
threat/threats
tyranny
United States
war/war on terror

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I appreciate all you’ve done and I really want to thank Heritage. One of the interesting things about the Heritage legacy is that the folks here have been tireless advocates, tireless champions of __________, and __________ enterprise, and democracy and religious __________. These are values that came under __________ on __________, 2001. Our nation was __________ by a brutal __________ that despises __________, that rejects tolerance, that kills the innocent in the pursuit of a __________ vision. These folks believe that it’s okay to subjugate women and indoctrinate children and murder those who oppose their harsh rule. They have stated clearly they want to impose this ideology on millions. They’re at __________ with __________ because they hate what they stand for — and they understand we stand in their way.

And so today I’ve come to talk to you about the __________, my firm commitment that we’ll do everything in our power to protect the __________ people, and my call on the __________ Congress to give us the tools necessary so we can do the job the __________ people expect.
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It’s been now more than six years since the __________ __________ us on __________, and we are blessed that there has not been another __________ on our soil. With the passage of time, the memories of the __________ __________s have grown more distant. And for some, there’s a temptation to think that the __________ to our country have grown distant as well. They have not.

The __________s who struck __________ that September morning intend to strike us again. We know this, because the __________ has told us so. Just last year, Osama bin Laden __________ned the __________ people, “Operations are under preparation, and you will see them on your own ground once they are finished.” Seven months later, British authorities broke up the most ambitious known al Qaeda plot since the __________ __________s — a plot to blow up passenger airplanes flying over the Atlantic to__________d the __________. Our intelligence community believes that this plot was just two or three weeks away from execution. If it had been carried out, it could have rivaled __________ in __________ and destruction.

The lesson of this experience is clear. We must take the words of the __________ seriously. The __________s have stated their objectives. They intend to build a totalitarian Islamic empire — encompassing all current and former Muslim lands, stretching from Europe to North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In pursuit of their imperial aims, these __________ say there can be no compromise or dialog with those they call infidels — a category that includes __________, the world’s __________ nation [sic], Jews, and all Muslims who reject their __________ vision of Islam. They reject the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the __________ world. Again, hear the words of Osama bin Laden last year: “__________ is better than living on this Earth with the unbelievers among us.”
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Bin Laden and his __________ allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. And the question is: Will we listen? __________ and our coalition partners are listening. We have made our choice. We take the words of the __________ seriously. Over the past six years, we have captured or killed hundreds of __________s. We have disrupted their finances. We have prevented new __________s before they could be carried out. We removed regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq that had supported __________s and __________ened our citizens, and in so doing, liberated 50 million people from the clutches of __________. (__________.)

With our allies, we’re keeping the pressure on the __________. We’re keeping him on the move. We’re fighting them everywhere they make their stand — from the mountains of Afghanistan, to the deserts of Iraq, to the islands of Southeast Asia and the Horn of Africa. On every battlefront, we’re on the offense. We’re keeping constant pressure. And in this __________ we will not rest, or retreat, or withdraw from the fight until this __________ to civilization has been removed. (__________.)

I fully understand that after six years, the sense of imminent __________ has passed for some — and it can be natural for people to forget the lessons of __________ as they go about their daily lives. I just want to assure you that I’ll never forget the lessons of __________, and nor will the people with whom I work. I know that when I discuss the __________, some here in Washington, D.C. dismiss it as political rhetoric — an attempt to scare people into votes. Given the nature of the __________ and the words of its leaders, politicians who deny that we are at __________ are either being disingenuous or naive. Either way, it is __________ous for our country. We are at __________ — and we cannot win this __________ by wishing it away or pretending it does not exist.
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