The issues inside the United States were also addressed by Bush, including his plan to strengthening the U.S. economy after a recession.

He said, "In four short months, our nation has comforted the victims, begun to rebuild New York and the Pentagon, rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested, and rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps, saved a people from starvation, and freed a country from brutal oppression.

He stated that the U.S. deposed the Emirate of Afghanistan, because the Islamic regime did not respect the human rights of Afghan citizens.

In the address, Bush first introduced the term "axis of evil" in referring to the countries of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, with the oration being primarily centered on foreign policy.

[5] Bush spoke about the September 11 attacks four months prior that killed thousands of people in New York City, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

The Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda carried out the attack with 19 hijackers that took over four commercial airline flights and crashed them into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City's Lower Manhattan, and into the Pentagon in Virginia's Arlington County.

During the attack, two of the hijacked airplanes crashed into the upper portions of the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon.

The president warned, "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world".

His goals for the war were to end terrorism and its threat on the United States and to bring all terrorists to justice, either by capturing them and prosecuting them legally, or by killing them.

He said, "Thousands of dangerous killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by outlaw regimes, are now spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning."

The funding went to developing defenses against biochemical weapons, better training for police and emergency personnel, and stronger security at borders and airports.

[1] The legislation establishing the Department of Homeland Security was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President in November 2002.

[11] Experts at NBER, the National Bureau of Economic Research, argue that the economy likely could have avoided the recession if not for the September 11 attacks.

President Bush's plan addressed the importance of education, affordable energy, expanded trade, and sound economic and fiscal policy to create "good jobs" for the American people.

Bush argued that the most effective means of creating jobs was by investing in factories and equipment and speeding up tax relief.