War on Terror: This time, its personal.

Bush Says 10 Plots by Al Qaeda Were Foiled:

"The radical movement, he said, goes beyond 'isolated acts of madness,' animated by a coherent philosophy akin to Soviet Communism and Nazi fascism with the goal to 'establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia.'

'While the killers choose their victims indiscriminately, their attacks serve a clear and focused ideology, a set of beliefs and goals that are evil but not insane,' the president said. The disruption of some plots, he said, means that 'the enemy is wounded but the enemy is still capable of global operations.'

Bush singled out Syria and Iran for condemnation, calling them 'allies of convenience' of Islamic radicals 'with a long history of collaboration with terrorists' and saying they 'deserve no patience from the victims of terror.' He rebuffed calls to withdraw from Iraq, dismissing the 'dangerous illusion' that pulling out would make the United States safer. And he rejected the argument that the Iraq war has only fostered terrorism, a position taken even by some in government."

Ok, now we can finally identify the enemys goals, and shove the politically correct blather out the window.

"Two sources familiar with intelligence information said the West Coast plot targeted the tallest building in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower, and involved Malaysian militants and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, who was captured in 2003. Previous reports on Mohammed's interrogations in custody said that before Sept. 11 he mapped out an attack on the tower that was later aborted.

The seven foreign plots said to be disrupted by the United States and its partners included plans to strike London's Heathrow Airport using hijacked planes, to hit ships in the Persian Gulf region and the Straits of Hormuz, to attack Westerners in Karachi, Pakistan, and to set off multi-target explosions in Britain.

The five "casings and infiltrations" in the United States involve better-known cases, such as the capture of Iyman Faris, who was accused of exploring the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge and ultimately pleaded guilty to providing material support to al Qaeda. Another involved a man sent to scout gas stations in the United States, an apparent reference to Majid Khan, who was reportedly assigned by Mohammed to explore simultaneous bombings of gas stations."

Heheh! We're stoping them at home and abroad.