U.S. President George W. Bush speaks on an aircraft intercom to a plane filled with members of the U.S. Army and National Guard in Bangor, Maine, September 23, 2004 as the troops prepared to fly to Iraq. Bush, who was in Bangor for a campaign stop, boarded the plane on the tarmac at Bangor International Airport and personally greeted the soldiers in a show of support, before he flew back to Washington aboard Air Force One. REUTERS/Jason Reed JMG