President Bush’s address at the American Legion Conference was much like Rumsfeld’s speech posted upon yesterday, or at least with the actual message and it has yet to be determined if the Associated Press will completely misquote the speech like it did to Rumsfeld’s.

Kash has excerpts related to Iran, and they are very interesting.  One small portion I’d like to point out is as follows:

Extremists in Iran seized American hostages. Hezbollah terrorists murdered American troops at the Marine barracks in Beirut and Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Terrorists set off a truck bomb at the World Trade Center. Al Qaeda blew up two U.S. embassies in East Africa, and bombed the USS Cole. Then came the nightmare of September the 11, 2001, when 19 hijackers killed nearly 3,000 men, women, and children.

I realize this linking, if you will, of Hezbollah to 9/11 will cause many within the American Left to go ape___, but there is a link between all of the radical Islamic terrorist attacks with each other.  They all carry upon the same basic ideology, though the specific ideologies are vastly different, and they all present a challenge to free nations accross the globe.

This summer’s crisis in Lebanon has made it clearer than ever that the world now faces a grave threat from the radical regime in Iran. The Iranian regime arms, funds, and advises Hezbollah, which has killed more Americans than any terrorist network except al Qaeda. The Iranian regime interferes in Iraq by sponsoring terrorists and insurgents, empowering unlawful militias, and supplying components for improvised explosive devices. The Iranian regime denies basic human rights to millions of its people. And the Iranian regime is pursuing nuclear weapons in open defiance of its international obligations.

We know the death and suffering that Iran’s sponsorship of terrorists has brought, and we can imagine how much worse it would be if Iran were allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Many nations are working together to solve this problem.

It is time for Iran to make a choice. We’ve made our choice: We will continue to work closely with our allies to find a diplomatic solution — but there must be consequences for Iran’s defiance, and we must not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon…

Sounds a bit like the “you’re with us or against us” line President Bush delivered right after 9/11.  Back then it was able to turn Pakistan, but there’s no real hope of turning Iran unless the government is overthrown.