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Bush Remembers Victims of 9-11, Warns Terrorists

Aired March 12, 2002 - 05:06   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush also paused to remember the attacks, six months ago yesterday. He hosted a ceremony on the White House Lawn. While he remembered the victims, he also used the ceremony to warn those considering more terrorist attacks on the United States.

Our White House Correspondent Kelly Wallace tells us about that.

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KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With flags from more than 170 nations as a symbolic show of unity, President Bush told a gathering of ambassadors, law makers and family members of victims, the coalition must not lose its resolve as the war moves beyond Afghanistan.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have entered the second stage of the war on terror, a sustained campaign to deny sanctuary to terrorists who would threaten our citizens from anywhere in the world.

WALLACE: That campaign already under way, Mr. Bush said, with the U.S. sending military advisers to the Philippines and soon to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, and also helping Yemen from becoming, in the president's words, "another Afghanistan."

BUSH: Every terrorist must be made to live as an international fugitive with no place to settle or organize, no place to hide, no governments to hide behind and not even a safe place to sleep.

WALLACE: There was no mention of his now controversial term "axis of evil" to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea, but Mr. Bush did warn of terror on a catastrophic scale.

BUSH: In preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction there is no margin for error and no chance to learn from mistakes. Our coalition must act deliberately, but inaction is not an option.

WALLACE (on camera): Those words a message to Iraq in particular. But if the president decides to make that country the next military target beyond Afghanistan, he faces a huge diplomatic challenge, because, already, many Arab allies are saying such a move would have devastating consequences for the region.

Kelly Wallace, CNN, the White House.

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