- LEXINGTON, Va. (Reuters)
- President Bush on Wednesday renewed his call for action against "axis
of evil" states that produce weapons of mass destruction and support
terrorism, saying "the world must confront them."
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- Bush said the world faced a great threat from "a
small number of outlaw regimes" which own or develop biological, chemical
or nuclear weapons.
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- "In their threat to peace, in their mad ambitions,
in their destructive potential and in the repression of their own people
these regimes constitute an axis of evil and the world must confront them,"
he said.
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- Bush did not name those countries but had earlier identified
them as Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has
also included Syria as a threatening state.
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- Bush, committing the United States to a long-term war
on terrorism, said America would work with its allies "in different
ways, with different tactics, in different places," adding, "We
will defeat global terror and we will not allow the world's most dangerous
regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons."
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