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Bush approaches the podium 2. Wide shot of President Bush and media3. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:\"Although these instigations of violence come from different factions, they share common goals. They want to run us...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Bush approaches the podium \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Although these instigations of violence come from different factions, they share common goals. They want to run us out of Iraq and destroy the democratic hopes of the Iraqi people.  The violence we have seen is a power grab by these extreme and ruthless elements. It's not a civil war. It's not a popular uprising. Most of Iraq is relatively stable. Most Iraqis by far reject violence and oppose dictatorship.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003eReporter: \"What does that say to you and how do you answer the Vietnam comparison?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the analogy is false. I also happen to think that analogy sends the wrong message to our troops and sends the wrong message to the enemy. Look, this is hard work. It's hard to advance freedom in a country that has been strangled by tyranny. And yet we must stay the course because the end result is in our nation's interest. A secure and free Iraq is an historic opportunity to change the world.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't plan on losing my job. I plan on telling the American people that I've got a plan to win the war on terror. And I believe they'll stay with me. They understand the stakes.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I stepped back and I've asked myself a lot.  Is there anything we could have done to stop the attacks? Of course I've asked that question, as have many people in my government. Nobody wants this to happen to America. And the answer is that had I had any inkling whatsoever that the people were going to fly airplanes into buildings, we would have moved heaven and earth to save the country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In addition, members of the Governing Council are seeking to resolve the situation in the south. Al-Sadr must answer the charges against him and disband his illegal militia.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close media cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The violence we are seeing in Iraq is familiar. The terrorists who take hostages or plants a roadside bomb near Baghdad is serving the same ideology of murder that kills innocent people on trains in Madrid, and murders children on buses in Jerusalem, and blows up a nightclub in Bali and cuts the throat of a young reporter for being a Jew. We've seen the same ideology of murder in the killing of 241 Marines in Beirut, the first attack on the World Trade Center, in the destruction of two embassies in Africa, in the attack on the USS Cole, and in the merciless horror inflicted upon thousands of innocent men and women and children on September the 11th, 2001.  None of these acts is the work of a religion. All are the work of a fanatical political ideology.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close media cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) United States President George W. Bush:\u003cbr/\u003e\"NATO is providing support for the Polish-led, multinational division in Iraq. And 17 of NATO's 26 members are contributing forces to maintain security. Secretary of State Powell and Secretary of State Rumsfeld and a number of NATO defence and foreign ministers are exploring a more formal role for NATO, such as turning the Polish-led division into a NATO operation and giving NATO specific responsibilities for border control. Iraqis' neighbours also have responsibilities to make their region more stable.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of President Bush and media\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close media cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up of President Bush thanking his audience and leaving the podium\u003cbr/\u003eConceding a couple of \"tough weeks in Iraq,\" President Bush signaled on Tuesday night that he is ready to put more American troops on the front lines and use decisive force if necessary to restore order. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he was confident the nation would stand with him despite \"gut-wrenching\" televised images of fallen Americans.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a combination speech and news conference at the White House, Bush rejected suggestions that Iraq was becoming another Vietnam - a quagmire without ready exit.\u003cbr/\u003eStanding before cameras for an hour, giving a 17-minute speech followed by reporters' questions, Bush offered no apology for the government's failure to prevent the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.\u003cbr/\u003eIn response to questions, he also could not cite any mistakes or failures of his as president.\u003cbr/\u003eOne year after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Bush said a recent increase in violence is neither a civil war nor a popular uprising.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The violence we've seen is a power grab by ... extreme and ruthless elements\" from inside Iraq and from outside, he said.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile the troops will remain, Bush also said the United States would stick to a June 30 deadline for handing over political power to Iraqis.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said a UN envoy would help decide which Iraqis would be placed in charge.\u003cbr/\u003eThe US President addressed matters of war and peace in the course of his hour at the podium, but election-year politics shadowed the proceedings.\u003cbr/\u003eAsked whether he believes he has acted correctly even if it costs him his job, he replied quickly, \"I don't intend to lose my job. Because I'm going to tell the American people I have a plan to win the war on terror.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWhile Bush opened with remarks about Iraq, the questions were broader - focusing as well on the September 11 attacks.\u003cbr/\u003eAsked whether he felt any responsibility for the attack, Bush said he grieved for the families of the victims and said in retrospect he wished, for example, the Homeland Security Department had been in place.       \u003cbr/\u003eBush also said the United States was demanding the arrest or capture of Muqtada al-Sadr, a radical Shiite cleric whose illegal militias have fought US forces in southern Iraq. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he had instructed the military to use decisive force if necessary to crush the insurgency.\u003cbr/\u003eHe compared insurgents taking hostages in Iraq to radical Islamic fanatics around the world, saying they are \"serving the same ideology of murder\" of those who blow up trains in Madrid, Spain, bomb buses in Israel - or inflicted 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