President Thanks Troops for Hurricane Relief Efforts (VIDEO)

President Thanks Troops for Hurricane Relief Efforts in Louisiana, FULL STREAMING VIDEO, Joint Reserve Base U.S. Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana 12:29 P.M. CDT

THE PRESIDENT: Generals, thanks -- General Landreneau and General Downer, thank you all for greeting me here. I'm proud to be traveling with members of the United States Congress who are with us today.

Listen, I'm here to thank you all for what has been an incredible outpouring of talent and skill and compassion to help the good folks of this part of the world that have suffered mightily. I'm incredibly proud of those who wear our nation's uniform, and I'm incredibly proud of the job you have done. You have brought great credit to your units, credit to your family, and credit to our nation.

We got a lot of work to do, and I'll be telling the people that I've had an honor to meet, opportunity to meet, that out of this rubble is going to come some good; out of the devastation is going to come new cities and new hope. And I hope you take great inspiration in being a part of the renewal of this important part of the world.

I want you to, when you talk to your families, to tell them the Commander-in-Chief is proud of them as -- I'm equally as proud of them as I am proud of you. May God bless you all and your work. May God bless your families. And may God continue to bless our great country.

Thank you very much. (Applause.)

END 12:30 P.M. CDT, For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, October 11, 2005

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President Expresses Condolences to Pakistan (VIDEO)

President Expresses Condolences to Pakistan, Offers Assistance After Earthquake, FULL STREAMING VIDEO My Odeo Channel (odeo/94bb8338a53a2e41)

THE PRESIDENT: I would like to thank the Pakistan Embassy for coming by to brief me on the tragedy that has taken place in that country. I was just told that this is going to be the worst natural disaster in the nation's history;

thousands of people have died; thousands are wounded, and the United States of America wants to help.

I spoke to President Musharraf. I expressed our nation's deepest condolences. And I told him that we want to help in any way we can. To that end, we've already started to send cash money and other equipment and goods that is going to be needed to help the people in Pakistan. Moving eight choppers over; the Chargé told me that one of the biggest concerns for the government of Pakistan is not enough airlift capacity to get to some of these rural areas where people are suffering. So we're moving choppers.

Secretary Rumsfeld is surveying the assets that he may be able to move in the area. We're working with Pakistan at all levels of government. Pakistan is a friend of the United States government and the people of the United States will help as best as we possibly can. So I appreciate you coming by.

Finally, as I told the President -- President Musharraf -- I said there are a lot of Americans who will be asking for the Almighty God's blessings on the people of Pakistan.

Thank you all.

END 12:55 P.M. EDT, For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, October 9, 2005

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