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■ In CBS News poll, Bush earns 55 percent approval rating, but only 39 percent approve his handling of economy. . . . Bush: “We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.” . . . In CBS News poll, 33 percent say they’ll vote for Bush next year, 27 percent say they’ll vote for Democratic nominee, and 36 percent “don’t know yet.” . . . More Bush: “For America, there will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001—to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.” . . . Deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in Wall Street Journal’. “Foreign terrorists who go to Iraq to kill Americans understand this: If killing Americans leads to our defeat and the restoration of the old regime, they would score an enormous strategic victory for terrorism. … To those who think the battle in Iraq is a distraction from the global war against terrorism . . . tell that to our troops.” … In Washington Post poll, 69 percent say there’s a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

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“Oh, yeah?—Well, my true inner self can whip your true inner sef!”

■ In CBS News poll, Bush earns 55 percent approval rating, but only 39 percent approve his handling of economy. . . . Bush: “We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.” . . . In CBS News poll, 33 percent say they’ll vote for Bush next year, 27 percent say they’ll vote for Democratic nominee, and 36 percent “don’t know yet.” . . . More Bush: “For America, there will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001—to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.” . . . Deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in Wall Street Journal’. “Foreign terrorists who go to Iraq to kill Americans understand this: If killing Americans leads to our defeat and the restoration of the old regime, they would score an enormous strategic victory for terrorism. … To those who think the battle in Iraq is a distraction from the global war against terrorism . . . tell that to our troops.” … In Washington Post poll, 69 percent say there’s a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.