CRAWFORD, Texas: President George W Bush is defending his line-in-the-sand approach to the fight against terrorism, following presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama in a speech to a major veterans group.
His address Wednesday in Orlando, Florida, was to highlight themes Republican hopeful McCain has been using to argue that he is better qualified to be commander in chief than Obama, the Democratic nominee-in-waiting.
Bush, in remarks to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, also was expected to address the conflict between Russia and Georgia, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said .
Yet it is the nearly seven-year battle against nebulous terror groups such as al-Qaida that has dominated Bush's presidency and will carry over to a new administration next year.
Bush was to travel to Florida from his Texas ranch, where he is spending most of the remainder of August.
The president also was stopping in New Orleans and Gulfport, Mississippi, to talk about recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast in August 2005 and brought heavy criticism of the Bush administration for its sluggish response
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