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You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. The obligations that the parties have agreed to under the Road Map are clear.
When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. We will all have to make concessions to achieve this.
The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners." And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.
So it's 1985, and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way For we have a choice in this country. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work.
And they want that choice. We are the party of Kennedy. And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.