Bush Visits Arkansas` National Guard Troops
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Visiting an army base in Louisiana,
President Bush has told cheering troops the enemy in Iraq "will be
defeated -- and freedom will prevail."
The president flew to sprawling Fort Polk to see National Guard
troops getting ready to head for Baghdad -- and boost morale at a
base that`s lost a dozen soldiers in Iraq.
Addressing several thousand khaki-clad troops outside a large
hangar, Bush said it`s clear terrorists and Saddam Hussein
loyalists are making a stand in Iraq. But he said they don`t
"understand the nature of our troops."
Bush met privately with the families of seven soldiers killed in
Iraq -- and had lunch with an army unit made up of National Guard
from Arkansas.
Press Secretary Scott McClellan insists the base visit was set
up before a furor erupted over Bush`s Vietnam-era service in the
National Guard.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
