(23 Feb 2007)
1. US Vice President Dick Cheney walking to podium to deliver speech
2. Wide of Cheney
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dick Cheney, US Vice President:
"Prime Minister (John) Howard and the nation he serves has never wavered in the war on terror.The United States appreciates it and the whole world respects you for it. The business of our alliance goes forward and it begins with a fundamental duty to protect our people from danger."
4. Wide of audience
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dick Cheney, US Vice President:
"We've never had a fight like this and it's not a fight we can win using the strategies from other wars. An enemy that operates in the shadows and views the entire world as a battlefield is not one that can be contained or deterred. An enemy with fantasies of martyrdom is not going to sit down at a table for peaceful negotiations. The only option for our security and survival is to go on the offensive, face the threat directly, patiently and systematically until the enemy is destroyed."
6. Wide of Cheney with US and Australian flags in the background
STORYLINE:
US Vice President Dick Cheney told Australians on Friday that they had won the respect of the world through their support of the US-led war on terror.
On the first day of an Australian visit, Cheney praised Prime Minister John Howard who sent 2000 troops to support the U.S. and British military in the Iraq invasion.
"Prime Minister Howard and the nation he serves has never wavered in the war on terror," Cheney told the Australia-American Leadership Dialogue at a Sydney hotel.
"The United States appreciates it and the whole world respects you for it," he added.
Cheney said the United States would not give up in Iraq and that the 56-year-old US-Australian security alliance had never been more important.
"We've never had a fight like this and it's not a fight we can win using the strategies from other wars," he said.
"The only option for our security and survival is to go on the offensive, face the threat directly, patiently and systematically until the enemy is destroyed," he added.
Cheney was due to hold talks on Saturday with Howard, a staunch ally of Washington who has become a rarity by offering more, not fewer, troops for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The vice president is visiting Australia in part to explain Washington's surge of 21,500 more US troops for Iraq to try to turn the tide in the four-year-old occupation
Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea are expected to dominate the talks with Howard, who is under increasing political pressure to set an exit strategy for the 14 hundred Australian troops who remain in and around Iraq.
Outside the venue of the speech, anti-war protesters waved placards saying "Go home Cheney" and "Bring the troops home." Three people were arrested as police clashed with about 50 demonstrators.
Ten people were arrested at a similar demonstration shortly before Cheney arrived in Australia late on Thursday.
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