Bush Likens War on Terror to WWII
President Bush on Wednesday compared his war on terror to America's mission in World War II, likening the Sept. 11 attacks to Pearl Harbor and the upheavals in the Middle East to Cold War Europe.
In a speech to hundreds of Air Force Academy graduates, the Republican president likened the Islamist militancy of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network to the "aggressive ideologies" of the 20th century.
"Just as events in Europe determined the outcome of the Cold War, events in the Middle East will set the course of our current struggle," Bush told an audience of 29,300 who packed the Air Force Academy's football stadium.
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