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dinsdag, augustus 31, 2004
McCain: "We're not two countries"
"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." Zo begon John McCain zijn speech, net zoals Franklin Delano Roosevelt zijn speech op de Democratische conventie begon in het geboortejaar van McCain. Typisch voor de zich onafhankelijk noemende Republikein. Een Democraat citeren.
McCain gaat verder: "It's a fight between a just regard for human dignity and a malevolent force that defiles an honorable religion by disputing God's love for every soul on earth. It's a fight between right and wrong, good and evil.
And should our enemies acquire for their arsenal the chemical, biological and nuclear weapons they seek, this war will become a much bigger thing.
So it is, whether we wished it or not, that we have come to the test of our generation, to our rendezvous with destiny."
De lotsbestemming die wij het beste in de ogen kunnen zien onder de bezielende leiding van president Bush.
Verder, over de dagen na de aanslag op het WTC: "We were not poor or rich. We were not Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. We were not two countries. We were Americans."
Een steek naar Michael Moore: "And certainly not a disingenuous film maker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls."
Tot slot: "We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They [the terrorists] will." Luid applaus.




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