President Bush: Quit Drugs To Help the War on Terror

Drug users threaten everything that is best about America and threaten the souls of US citizens, President Bush warned last week, as he announced additional official support for the Drug Free Communities Support Programme.

"Drug use threatens everything, everything that is best about our country," Bush said, speaking at a conference in Washington (US Newswire).

"It breaks the bonds between parents and children. It turns productive citizens into addicts."

The President also stressed the moral dangers that drug users pose to US society, calling for faith based (religious) organisations to take an increasing role in "the maintenance of sobriety".

"We must reduce drug use for one great moral reason: Over time, drugs rob men, women, and children of their dignity, and of their character," he claimed.

"Illegal drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope. And when we fight against drugs, we fight for the souls of our fellow Americans."

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