Peninsula: Dicks, Cantwell praise Bush’s hard-line approach

WASHINGTON — Two members of the North Olympic Peninsula’s congressional delegation say they will support efforts by President Bush to bring the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks to justice.

Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Mountlake Terrace, reacting to the president’s speech Thursday, agreed that terrorists must be dealt with.

During the speech, Bush called on leaders worldwide to stand with the United States in its war on terrorism — or beware.

Both Dicks and Cantwell credited the president for his “strong” position in separate phone interviews with the Peninsula Daily News.

This full report appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News.

For the latest on President Bush’s Thursday night speech to Congress — and other developments relating to the response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — click on “AP Wire.”

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