09/05/2005
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"The loss is terrible. It is borne especially by the families left behind."
"They died in distant lands to fight terror, to advance freedom, and to protect America."
"The failure of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq would condemn every advocate of freedom in those two countries to prison or death."
"We went to war on solid information, on information that had been gathered over 12 years."