2003 State of the Union Address

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2003 State of the Union Address
President George W. Bush during the speech, with Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert behind him
DateJanuary 28, 2003 (2003-01-28)
Time9:00 p.m. EST
Duration59 minutes
VenueHouse Chamber, United States Capitol
LocationWashington, D.C.
Coordinates38°53′19.8″N 77°00′32.8″W / 38.888833°N 77.009111°W / 38.888833; -77.009111
TypeState of the Union Address
Participants
Previous2002 State of the Union Address
Next2004 State of the Union Address

The 2003 State of the Union Address was given by the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, on January 28, 2003, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 108th United States Congress. It was Bush's second State of the Union Address and his third speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Dennis Hastert, accompanied by Dick Cheney, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.

It outlined justifications for the

Axis of Evil", touching on Iran and North Korea before elaborating on Iraq. The 2003 speech would focus entirely on Iraq, in parallel with an ongoing campaign in the United Nations
for support on an Iraq intervention.

Bush said that

uranium from Africa",[1] a line which became a source of contention in the later Plame affair. The domestic brutality of Hussein and the benefits of liberty and freedom for the Iraqi people were briefly noted near the end of the speech. He began with, "In all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be confident. In a whirlwind
of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our resolve is firm, and our union is strong." In the middle of the speech, he said, "In Afghanistan, we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue helping them secure their country, rebuild their society, and educate all their children — boys and girls." He ended with, "Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity."[2] He spoke to the 108th United States Congress.

Just before the President addressed Iraq in the speech, he spent five paragraphs addressing his initiative to fight AIDS in Africa.[3]

The

United States Ambassador to China
in 2011.

See also

  • "16 words" – a controversial phrase in George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address

References

  1. ^ George W. Bush (January 28, 2003). "President Delivers 'State of the Union'". White House.
  2. ^ "State of the Union Address: George W. Bush (January 28th, 2003)".
  3. MPBN
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