police and firefighters air marshals researchers and so many others are working every day to make our homeland safer and we thank them all applauseour nation working with allies and friends has also confronted the enemy abroad with measures that are determined successful and continuing the al qaeda terror network that attacked our country still has leaders but many of its top commanders have been removed there are still governments that sponsor and harbor terrorists but their number has declined there are still regimes seeking weapons of mass destruction but no longer without attention and without consequence our country is still the target of terrorists who want to kill many and intimidate us all and we will stay on the offensive against them until the fight is won applausepursuing our enemies is a vital commitment of the war on terror and i thank the congress for providing our servicemen and women with the resources they have needed during this time of war we must continue to support our military and give them the tools for victory applauseother nations around the globe have stood with us in afghanistan an international force is helping provide security in iraq 28 countries have troops on the ground the united nations and the european union provided technical assistance for the elections and nato is leading a mission to help train iraqi officers were cooperating with 60 governments in the proliferation security initiative to detect and stop the transit of dangerous materials were working closely with the governments in asia to convince north korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions pakistan saudi arabia and nine other countries have captured or detained al qaeda terrorists in the next four years my administration will continue to build the coalitions that will defeat the dangers of our time applausein the longterm the peace we seek will only be achieved by eliminating the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of murder if whole regions of the world remain in despair and grow in hatred they will be the recruiting grounds for terror and that terror will stalk america and other free nations for decades the only force powerful enough to stop the rise of tyranny and terror and replace hatred with hope is the force of human freedom applause our enemies know this and that is why the terrorist zarqawi recently declared war on what he called the evil principle of democracy and weve declared our own intention america will stand with the allies of freedom to support democratic movements in the middle east and beyond with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world applausethe united states has no right no desire and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else that is one of the main differences between us and our enemies they seek to impose and expand an empire of oppression in which a tiny group of brutal selfappointed