Two-thirds of battle won: Bush

US President George W. Bush vows in his latest campaign ad to ‘‘bring an enemy to justice before they hurt us again’’. A...

US President George W. Bush vows in his latest campaign ad to ‘‘bring an enemy to justice before they hurt us again’’. Although Osama bin Laden remains at large and only one US defendant, Zacarias Moussaoui, has been charged with crimes related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Bush-Cheney campaign said on Wednesday that two-thirds of bin Laden’s

Al Qaeda terrorist network has been ‘‘brought to justice’’ since the attacks and that the nation is safer today because of the President’s policies. The taliban regime in Afghanistan has been toppled and Al Qaeda’s no 3 leader, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, has been arrested.

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‘‘I can’t imagine the great agony of a mom or a dad having to make the decision about which child to pick up first on September the 11th,’’ Bush says in the 30-second ad, which started airing on Wednesday.

‘‘We cannot hesitate, we cannot yield, we must do everything in our power to bring an enemy to justice before they hurt us again.’’

The commercial underscores Bush’s argument that his pre-emptive strike on Iraq was warranted in a post-September 11 era and as Commander-in-Chief, he has pursued policies to protect the nation.

	No ‘sensitive’ war, Cheney tells Kerry

			• DAYTON: US Vice-President Dick Cheney mocked Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Thursday for pledging to wage a more ‘‘sensitive’’ war against terrorism. ‘‘America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive,’’ he said. he said: ‘‘Those that threaten us and kill innocents do not need to be treated more sensitively, they need to be destroyed,’’ he said. —Reuters

Appearing with his wife Laura in the ad, Bush also speaks of the emotions parents felt three years ago on the day of the terrorist attacks.

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But the line about bringing ‘‘an enemy to justice’’ highlights the administration’s pursuit of terrorists.

But bin Laden still evades capture and a key conclusion in last month’s 9/11 Commission report said that Al-Qaeda’s imitators pose a ‘‘catastrophic threat’’ to the US. — (PTI)