Images of American troops humiliating naked Iraqi inmates at a prison west of Baghdad filled the media here amid widespread condemnation from Arab countries, the United Nations and even staunch US war ally Britain.
"I share a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated," Bush said at the White House. "I didn't like it one bit.
"Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people," he said. "That's not the way we do things in America.
There will be an investigation and they'll be taken care of."
http://www.afp.com/english/home/Things 'taken care' of so far by BushPresident George W. Bush ordered the White House staff Tuesday to cooperate fully with a Justice Department investigation into the leak of the identity of a CIA operative. Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, said he had no plans to name a special counsel to conduct the inquiry.
"The president has directed the White House to cooperate fully," said the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan. "The president wants to get to the bottom of this."
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"It's going to take time to find them," Bush said of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Speaking before hundreds of cheering workers, an enormous U.S. flag and five tanks with guns pointed skyward, he added: "But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth."
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President Bush pledged anew Friday that Osama bin Laden will be taken "dead or alive," no matter how long it takes, amid indications that the suspected terrorist may be bottled up in a rugged Afghan canyon. The president, in an Oval Office meeting with Thailand's prime minister, would not predict the timing of bin Laden's capture but said he doesn't care how the suspect is brought to justice. "I don't care, dead or alive — either way," Bush said. "It doesn't matter to me."
"I don't know whether we're going to get him tomorrow or a month from now or a year from now. I don't really know. But we're going to get him," the president said. "The American people must understand that I have no timetable in mind. There's no — I don't have a calendar that says, 'Gosh, if he's not gotten by this certain moment, then I'll be disappointed."'
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September 20, 2001Tonight, we face new and sudden national challenges. We will come together to improve air safety, to dramatically expand the number of air marshals on domestic flights, and take new measures to prevent hijacking. We will come together to promote stability and keep our airlines flying, with direct assistance during this emergency. (Applause.)
We will come together to give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home. (Applause.) We will come together to strengthen our intelligence capabilities to know the plans of terrorists before they act, and find them before they strike. (Applause.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.htmlMay 23, 2002President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11.
Mr. Bush said the matter should be dealt with by congressional intelligence committees.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml November 27, 2002 "I hope that the commission will act quickly and issue its report prior to the 18-month deadline embodied in the legislation, Bush said at the signing of the 9-11 commission bill. After all, if there's changes that need to be made, we need to know them as soon as possible, for the security of our country. The sooner we have the commission's conclusions, the sooner this administration will act on them.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/11/20021127-1.html Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2003Sources tell TIME that the White House brushed off a request quietly made last week by the 9-11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, to boost his budget by $11 million. Kean had sought the funding as part of the $75 billion supplemental spending bill that the president just requested to pay for war with Iraq.
"This is very counterproductive if the White House's intention is to prevent the commission from being politicized, because it will look like they have something to hide," said a Republican member of the commission.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html Mar. 09, 2004- President Bush will answer privately all questions raised by a federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the White House said Tuesday, softening its insistence that Bush's testimony be limited to an hour.
"Nobody's watching the clock," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
Still, he said an hour was "a reasonable period of time to set aside for a sitting president of the United States." The White House and the commission are working on a date for the meeting with Bush. The commission urged Bush to meet with all of its members, not just the chairman and vice chairman.
April 30, 2004Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered questions from the commissioners for more than three hours.
The president dismissed suggestions that he appeared before the panel with Cheney to coordinate stories.
"If we had something to hide, we wouldn't have met with them in the first place," Bush said. "We answered all their questions."
Bush said it was important for him and Cheney to appear together so that commission members could "see our body language... how we work together."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/29/bush.911.commission/index.htmlThe Justice Department has also posted documents on its Web site critical of Jamie Gorelick, a Democratic on the commission
"That's what the Justice Department did; we were not involved in it," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. "The president does not believe we ought to be pointing finger during this time period."
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