神马文学网奥巴马02年的反战演讲
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原文标题: Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq
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来源：中国选举与治理网
我不反对所有战争：奥巴马2002年的反战演讲
下午好。首先要说的是：虽然这是一个反战集会，而我又站在这里发言，但我却并非不分青红皂白地反对一切战争。美国内战的血腥在历史上是数一数二的，但唯有经过这样炮火的炼狱、无数的牺牲，我们才能开始真正的团结，奴隶制的罪恶才能从我们的土地上清除。我并不反对所有的站争。
在珍珠港被炸的次日，我的祖父就入了伍，在巴顿将军的麾下作战。在欧洲战场上，他目睹了许多已死的和垂死的人，他听闻了波兰奥斯维辛和特雷布林卡集中营的惨状。他在为一个更广阔的自由作战，这种自由作为民主弹药库的一部分，最终战胜了邪恶，他的战斗并非徒劳。我并不反对所有的战争。
911之后，在见证了血腥和毁灭，烟尘和眼泪之后，我支持政府追剿和根除那些以不能容忍的名义屠杀无辜的人。我自己也愿意拿起枪避免这样的悲剧再次发生。我并不反对所有的战争。我还知道，今天聚集在这里的人群中，并不缺乏爱国者，也不缺少爱国精神。
我反对愚蠢的战争，我反对头脑发热的战争。我反对政府里象理查德·珀尔、保尔·沃尔福威茨和那些坐在沙发里指手画脚的周末武士把他们自己的意识形态议程强加给我们而不计生命代价和可能造成的苦难。
我反对向卡尔·洛夫那样的政治掮客用战事转移我们对没有医保的人数上升的事实、贫困率升高、工资下降的事实的关注，转移我们对跨国公司的丑闻和刚刚经历大萧条以来最差的一个月的股票市场的跌宕的关注。这些才是我反对的。愚蠢的战争，鲁莽的战争，一场不是基于理智而是出于冲动的战争，一场不是基于原则而是出于政治需要的战争。需要说明的是——我对萨达姆·侯赛因没有任何幻想。他是个残忍的人，冷酷的人，为了稳固自己的地位，他屠戮自己的国民。他一再地拒不执行联合国决议，阻碍联合国武器视察小组，研制生化武器，还觊觎发展核武器。他是个坏家伙。不管是全世界还是伊拉克人民，没有萨达姆，日子都会更好过。
但是，我还知道，萨达姆目前对美国、对海湾邻国并没有构成立即、直接的威胁。伊拉克的经济摇摇欲坠，伊拉克的军队一落千丈，国际社会可以容忍萨达姆，直到他像其他那些无足轻重的独裁者一样，影响逐渐减退，最终坠入历史的尘埃。我知道，哪怕伊拉克战争取得胜利，美国还是需要驻军伊拉克，天知道会持续多长时间，花费多少代价，取得什么结果。我知道，没有清楚的理由，没有有力的国际支持，入侵伊拉克只会扑灭中东的光明，助长阿拉伯世界中最邪恶而不是最善良的冲动，反而帮助了基地组织征募新丁。我并不是反对所有的战争，我所反对的是愚蠢的战争。
所以，为了我们的孩子能有一个更正义、更安全的世界，让我们今天对总统说清楚。
你想打仗么，布什总统？ 那么，让我们这样结束对本·拉登和基地组织的战争：通过高效协同的情报部门，封锁恐怖主义的资金网络，建立健全的国土安全体系，而不仅仅是用颜色分级的警报。
你想打仗么，布什总统？那么，那让我们先打一场仗，保证联合国视察员可以履行职责，督促我们严格遵守不扩散条约，保证象俄罗斯这样之前的敌人和眼下的盟友保护和最终消除它们的核武器库和核原料，禁止印度和巴基斯坦这样的国家不使用他们已经拥有的这种恐怖的武器，并确保我国的军火商人不再为这地球上数不清的战争添油加料。
你想打仗么，布什总统？那么，让我们先为中东民情而战：确保我们在中东的那些所谓盟友——沙特和埃及——能不再压迫他们的人民，不再压制反对意见，不再纵容腐败和不平等，不再祸害他们的经济，否则他们的青年就是在没有教育、没有前途、没有希望的环境下长大，成为恐怖组织的生力军。
你真的想打仗么，布什总统？那么，让我们先为能源而战：制定明智的能源策略，不是去迎合埃克森美孚这些石油巨头的利益，而是要摆脱我们对中东石油的依赖。
这才是我们需要的战争，这才是我们愿意奔赴的战场，让我们对无知和狭隘开战，对腐败和贪婪开战，对贫穷和绝望开战。
军事战争的后果残酷无情，牺牲难以估量。在我们有生之年，我们也许会有为了捍卫和平而参战的机会，要以战争的代价来捍卫我们的自由。然而，我们却不应该、我们也不会盲目地走上这条地狱之路。我们也不允许那些愿意在战场上冲锋陷阵、愿意用鲜血来印证忠诚的人们，做出这样巨大、却又徒劳无益的牺牲。
Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq
October 2, 2002
Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don‘t oppose all wars.
My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton‘s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain. I don‘t oppose all wars.
After September 11th, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this administration‘s pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such tragedy from happening again. I don‘t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism.
What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.
What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income - to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That‘s what I‘m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He‘s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.
But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I‘m opposed to dumb wars.
So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the President today. You want a fight, President Bush? Let‘s finish the fight with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush?
Let‘s fight to make sure that the UN inspectors can do their work, and that we vigorously enforce a non-proliferation treaty, and that former enemies and current allies like Russia safeguard and ultimately eliminate their stores of nuclear material, and that nations like Pakistan and India never use the terrible weapons already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe. You want a fight, President Bush?
Let‘s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Bush? Let‘s fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn‘t simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair.
The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not -- we will not -- travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain.
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盎山 译
来源：中国选举与治理网
我不反对所有战争：奥巴马2002年的反战演讲
下午好。首先要说的是：虽然这是一个反战集会，而我又站在这里发言，但我却并非不分青红皂白地反对一切战争。美国内战的血腥在历史上是数一数二的，但唯有经过这样炮火的炼狱、无数的牺牲，我们才能开始真正的团结，奴隶制的罪恶才能从我们的土地上清除。我并不反对所有的站争。
在珍珠港被炸的次日，我的祖父就入了伍，在巴顿将军的麾下作战。在欧洲战场上，他目睹了许多已死的和垂死的人，他听闻了波兰奥斯维辛和特雷布林卡集中营的惨状。他在为一个更广阔的自由作战，这种自由作为民主弹药库的一部分，最终战胜了邪恶，他的战斗并非徒劳。我并不反对所有的战争。
911之后，在见证了血腥和毁灭，烟尘和眼泪之后，我支持政府追剿和根除那些以不能容忍的名义屠杀无辜的人。我自己也愿意拿起枪避免这样的悲剧再次发生。我并不反对所有的战争。我还知道，今天聚集在这里的人群中，并不缺乏爱国者，也不缺少爱国精神。
我反对愚蠢的战争，我反对头脑发热的战争。我反对政府里象理查德·珀尔、保尔·沃尔福威茨和那些坐在沙发里指手画脚的周末武士把他们自己的意识形态议程强加给我们而不计生命代价和可能造成的苦难。
我反对向卡尔·洛夫那样的政治掮客用战事转移我们对没有医保的人数上升的事实、贫困率升高、工资下降的事实的关注，转移我们对跨国公司的丑闻和刚刚经历大萧条以来最差的一个月的股票市场的跌宕的关注。这些才是我反对的。愚蠢的战争，鲁莽的战争，一场不是基于理智而是出于冲动的战争，一场不是基于原则而是出于政治需要的战争。需要说明的是——我对萨达姆·侯赛因没有任何幻想。他是个残忍的人，冷酷的人，为了稳固自己的地位，他屠戮自己的国民。他一再地拒不执行联合国决议，阻碍联合国武器视察小组，研制生化武器，还觊觎发展核武器。他是个坏家伙。不管是全世界还是伊拉克人民，没有萨达姆，日子都会更好过。
但是，我还知道，萨达姆目前对美国、对海湾邻国并没有构成立即、直接的威胁。伊拉克的经济摇摇欲坠，伊拉克的军队一落千丈，国际社会可以容忍萨达姆，直到他像其他那些无足轻重的独裁者一样，影响逐渐减退，最终坠入历史的尘埃。我知道，哪怕伊拉克战争取得胜利，美国还是需要驻军伊拉克，天知道会持续多长时间，花费多少代价，取得什么结果。我知道，没有清楚的理由，没有有力的国际支持，入侵伊拉克只会扑灭中东的光明，助长阿拉伯世界中最邪恶而不是最善良的冲动，反而帮助了基地组织征募新丁。我并不是反对所有的战争，我所反对的是愚蠢的战争。
所以，为了我们的孩子能有一个更正义、更安全的世界，让我们今天对总统说清楚。
你想打仗么，布什总统？ 那么，让我们这样结束对本·拉登和基地组织的战争：通过高效协同的情报部门，封锁恐怖主义的资金网络，建立健全的国土安全体系，而不仅仅是用颜色分级的警报。
你想打仗么，布什总统？那么，那让我们先打一场仗，保证联合国视察员可以履行职责，督促我们严格遵守不扩散条约，保证象俄罗斯这样之前的敌人和眼下的盟友保护和最终消除它们的核武器库和核原料，禁止印度和巴基斯坦这样的国家不使用他们已经拥有的这种恐怖的武器，并确保我国的军火商人不再为这地球上数不清的战争添油加料。
你想打仗么，布什总统？那么，让我们先为中东民情而战：确保我们在中东的那些所谓盟友——沙特和埃及——能不再压迫他们的人民，不再压制反对意见，不再纵容腐败和不平等，不再祸害他们的经济，否则他们的青年就是在没有教育、没有前途、没有希望的环境下长大，成为恐怖组织的生力军。
你真的想打仗么，布什总统？那么，让我们先为能源而战：制定明智的能源策略，不是去迎合埃克森美孚这些石油巨头的利益，而是要摆脱我们对中东石油的依赖。
这才是我们需要的战争，这才是我们愿意奔赴的战场，让我们对无知和狭隘开战，对腐败和贪婪开战，对贫穷和绝望开战。
军事战争的后果残酷无情，牺牲难以估量。在我们有生之年，我们也许会有为了捍卫和平而参战的机会，要以战争的代价来捍卫我们的自由。然而，我们却不应该、我们也不会盲目地走上这条地狱之路。我们也不允许那些愿意在战场上冲锋陷阵、愿意用鲜血来印证忠诚的人们，做出这样巨大、却又徒劳无益的牺牲。
Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq
October 2, 2002
Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don‘t oppose all wars.
My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton‘s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain. I don‘t oppose all wars.
After September 11th, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this administration‘s pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such tragedy from happening again. I don‘t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism.
What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.
What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income - to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That‘s what I‘m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He‘s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.
But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I‘m opposed to dumb wars.
So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the President today. You want a fight, President Bush? Let‘s finish the fight with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush?
Let‘s fight to make sure that the UN inspectors can do their work, and that we vigorously enforce a non-proliferation treaty, and that former enemies and current allies like Russia safeguard and ultimately eliminate their stores of nuclear material, and that nations like Pakistan and India never use the terrible weapons already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe. You want a fight, President Bush?
Let‘s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Bush? Let‘s fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn‘t simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair.
The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not -- we will not -- travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain.
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