Serve the Cause of Freedom; Americans Must Be Willing to Sacrifice

Byline: Tod Lindberg, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

That President Bush's second inaugural address is still being parsed and argued over is itself an indication of the consequence sober listeners attributed to it at the time. Nevertheless, there was a passage in the "Freedom Speech" that hasn't received much attention and probably deserves more, especially in light of the most memorable moment of Mr. Bush's State of the Union speech - the extended embrace between Janet Norwood, mother of slain Marine Sgt. Robert Norwood, and Safia Taleb al-Suhail, whom the president described as "one of Iraq's leading democracy and human rights advocates" and whose father was killed by Saddam Hussein.

What the president said in the second inaugural was …

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Publication information: Article title: Serve the Cause of Freedom; Americans Must Be Willing to Sacrifice. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC). Publication date: February 8, 2005. Page number: A17. © 2009 The Washington Times LLC. COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group.

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