Bush claims war on terror can be won

Performing a rapid U-turn, President George Bush now believes the US will win the war on terrorism, despite suggesting 24 hours earlier it could not be won.

Bush “will make it crystal clear … that we will win the war on terrorism by continuing to take the fight to the enemy,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan said ahead of the president’s speech in Nashville, Tennessee, to the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans organisation.