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As former President Bush might say, if this question fools you once, shame on you....fool you....you can't get fooled again. Do you know why he gave the following speech?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the war on terror,
- 00:07
a parent's struggle with a tempestuous toddler.
- 00:10
All right, first up, the excerpt.
- 00:12
All right. "...war on terror begins with al Qaeda but it does not end there.
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- 00:16
It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated."
- 00:19
All right. That was 2001.
- 00:21
President Bush's speech was given in response to... what?
- 00:26
And here are your potential answers.
- 00:27
[ mumbles ] Read the news?
- 00:31
In the excerpt, President Bush says that the war on terror
- 00:34
"will not end until every terrorist group of global reach
- 00:37
has been found, stopped, and defeated."
- 00:40
Well, let's see what could've precipitated these knock-down fightin' words.
- 00:44
Was President Bush's speech given in response to A -
- 00:47
the bombing of the USS Cole?
- 00:49
Hmm. We're a little too late for the bombing of the USS Cole,
- 00:52
which happened in October 2000.
- 00:54
That runs out the clock for A.
- 00:56
Was this speech in response to C -
- 00:58
the "Star Wars" initiative?
- 01:00
Well, actually, "Star Wars" initiatives were a policy
- 01:03
from way back in the Reagan administration,
- 01:05
like the 80s. We're about 20 years late for that.
- 01:08
Could Bush have given this speech in response to D -
- 01:11
the start of the War in Iraq?
- 01:13
Well, now we're too early, since the U.S.
- 01:15
didn't invade Iraq until March 2003.
- 01:19
Which means Bush's speech was given in response to B -
- 01:21
the September 11th attacks. Yeah, 9/11. That one.
- 01:25
President Bush's 2001 speech came just
- 01:27
days after the horrific September 11th attacks,
- 01:31
setting a series of events in motion
- 01:33
that ultimately led to military action in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- 01:37
So B is the right answer.
- 01:38
In his speech, Bush was preparing the nation
- 01:41
for a lengthy war on terror
- 01:43
and a shocked and grief-stricken American public
- 01:46
mostly went along for the mission.
- 01:48
[ lasers beam ]
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