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...immediate air strikes. But with intelligence offering nothing more than a pinprick--"We could have only made the rocks bounce," a military source says--Bush started working the phones. He called Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who refused to leave the burning Pentagon, and said they would hunt down and punish those responsible. He turned to a CIA officer and passed on a message for CIA Director George Tenet. "If Tenet has something"--such as news of another attack--"I want to hear it directly from him, not from you," Bush said. After dividing the work among his closest aides, Bush...
Without a doubt, the American people need to feel that our government is doing something swiftly. But we also need to know that we're holding the right suspects accountable. To punish the wrong people would only turn this national tragedy into an even worse disaster. I feel like all other Americans and want blood, but not that of innocent people. RICARDO GARCIA Tempe, Ariz...
Appearing confident and resolute, Bush addressed both Houses of Congress and the nation last night, pledging the full resources of the government to find and punish terrorists and those countries that harbor them...
...also do not understand her issue with actively finding and extensively disciplining whoever is responsible—it seems her only question is over President George W. Bush’s terminology, the less politically-correct verbs “hunt” and “punish...
...Then he set about replacing a shadowy, stateless organization with something Americans are more used to dealing with: the villainous leadership of a country, a leadership we can despise, a Milosevic, a Saddam. Someone we can threaten - and if necessary, punish - before frustration sets...