Great speech Tony,
"Thousands of people were killed in cold blood in the worst terrorist attacks the world has ever seen"
"Never forget how we felt watching the planes fly into the twin towers. Never forget those answering machine messages."
"Never forget how we felt imagining how mothers told children they were about to die.
"Never forget the guts of the firefighters and police in New York who died trying to save others.
"Never forget the menace of bin Laden in his propaganda video. We are a principled nation and this is a principled conflict."
"September 11 is no less appalling today than it was then, on September 11. Our determination is no less resolute than it was on the day military action began. We have a job to do and it is being done and it will be seen through to the end."
"People want results, they want them as fast as possible."
"They realise the formidable challenges posed by any action in Afghanistan. They worry about civilian casualties. They are anxious about the refugee crisis as winter approaches. They wonder what comes after the conflict."
"All these concerns deserve to be answered. No-one who raises doubts is an appeaser or a faint-heart."
"We are a democracy, strong enough to have doubts raised even at a time of war and wise enough to be able to respond to them."
"Those responsible were the al Qaida network reared by Osama bin Laden. That is a fact barely disputed by anyone any more."
"Incidentally, the intelligence evidence, a flow when I first drew attention to it on October 3, is now a flood, confirming guilt."
"a group of people in Afghanistan who are the sworn enemies of everything the civilised world stands for who have killed once on a vast scale and will kill again unless stopped".
"They have one hope: that we are somehow decadent, that we lack the moral fibre or will or courage to take them on; that we might begin but we won't finish; that we will start, then falter; that when the first setbacks occur, we will lose our nerve.
"They are wrong. We won't falter."
"We will not stop until our mission is complete. We will not flinch from doing what is necessary to complete it.
"We will not fail and we will do it all because we believe in our values of justice, tolerance and respect for all regardless of race, religion or creed just as passionately as they believe in a fanatical hatred of Jews, Christians and any Muslims who don't share their perverse view of Islam."
"The means we use will be air power, ground operations as and when necessary, support to the Northern Alliance and other anti-Taliban regime elements and building up a strong political and diplomatic coalition against the present Taliban regime inside and outside Afghanistan."
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