PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: We need to go to the president, who is making his address to the parliament in Berlin.</s>GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ... giving me this chance to be here today. President Rau, thank you very much, Chancellor Schroeder. I understand former Chancellor Kohl is here. I want to thank the members of the Bundestag. How are you, sir? I was a little nervous when the president told me that you all are on vacation.</s>BUSH: By remaining united, we are meeting modern threats with the greatest resources of wealth and will ever assembled by free nations. Together, Europe and the United States have the creative genius, the economic power, the moral heritage and the democratic vision to protect our liberty and to advance our cause of peace. Different as we are, we are building and defending the same house of freedom. Its door is open to all Europe's people. Its window is looking out to global challenges beyond. We must lay the foundation with a Europe that is whole and free and at peace for the first time in its history.</s>ZAHN: The president in a wide-ranging speech, among other things addressing September 11 and what it was representing to the world's history, calling it a dividing line in our history, comparing it to the first day of the Berlin Blockade, to also comparing it to the bombings at Pearl Harbor. He praised the Germans for their efforts in the war against terror in Afghanistan. He cited their training police officers in Afghanistan, their sending troops there He also talked about the great need for Russia to join Europe and America in this fight. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Bush Speaks Before German Parliament