Terrorists.
No one can deny the success of freedom, but some men rage and fight against it.
And one of the main sources of reaction and opposition is radical Islam; the perversion by a few of a noble faith into an ideology of terror and death.
Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously.
They seek to impose a heartless system of totalitarian control throughout the Middle East and arm themselves with weapons of mass murder.
Their aim is to seize power in Iraq and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world.
Lacking the military strength to challenge us directly, the terrorists have chosen the weapon of fear.
When they murder children at a school in Beslan or blow up commuters in London or behead a bound captive, the terrorists hope these horrors will break our will, allowing the violent to inherit the Earth.
But they have miscalculated. We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep it.
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