A Nation Once Again Lyrics Irish
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Th, Sept. 20, 2001
Following is the full text of President Bush's address to a joint session of Congress and the nation.
BUSH: Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Tempore, members of Congress, and boyfriend Americans, in the normal course of events, presidents come to this chamber to study on the state of the union. Tonight, no such report is needed; information technology has already been delivered by the American people.
Nosotros take seen information technology in the courage of passengers who rushed terrorists to save others on the footing. Passengers like an infrequent man named Todd Beamer. And would you please assistance me welcome his wife Lisa Beamer hither tonight?
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We accept seen the state of our union in the endurance of rescuers working by burnout.
We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of claret, the saying of prayers in English language, Hebrew and Standard arabic.
We take seen the decency of a loving and giving people who have made the grief of strangers their own.
My fellow citizens, for the last nine days, the entire globe has seen for itself the state of matrimony, and it is strong.
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Tonight, nosotros are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will exist done.
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I give thanks the Congress for its leadership at such an important time.
All of America was touched on the evening of the tragedy to see Republicans and Democrats joined together on the steps of this Capitol singing ``God Bless America.''
And you lot did more sing. You acted, by delivering $40 billion to rebuild our communities and meet the needs of our armed services. Speaker Hastert, Minority Leader Gephardt, Majority Leader Daschle and Senator Lott, I thank you for your friendship, for your leadership and for your service to our country.
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And on behalf of the American people, I give thanks the globe for its outpouring of support.
America will never forget the sounds of our national anthem playing at Buckingham Palace, on the streets of Paris and at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
We will not forget South Korean children gathering to pray outside our embassy in Seoul, or the prayers of sympathy offered at a mosque in Cairo.
Nosotros will non forget moments of silence and days of mourning in Australia and Africa and Latin America.
Nor will we forget the citizens of 80 other nations who died with our own. Dozens of Pakistanis, more than 130 Israelis, more than 250 citizens of India, men and women from El Salvador, Islamic republic of iran, Mexico and Japan, and hundreds of British citizens.
America has no truer friend than United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.
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Once once again, we are joined together in a dandy crusade.
I'thousand so honored the British prime minister had crossed an ocean to show his unity with America.
Thanks for coming, friend.
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On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an human action of war against our country. Americans take known wars, but for the past 136 years they have been wars on foreign soil, except for 1 Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a swell city on a peaceful forenoon.
Americans accept known surprise attacks, only never before on thousands of civilians.
All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a different world, a world where liberty itself is nether set on.
Americans have many questions tonight. Americans are request, ``Who attacked our land?''
The testify we have gathered all points to a drove of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda. They are some of the murderers indicted for bombing American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and responsible for bombing the USS Cole.
Al Qaeda is to terror what the Mafia is to criminal offense. But its goal is not making money, its goal is remaking the globe and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.
The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.
The terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans and brand no distinctions among armed forces and civilians, including women and children.
This grouping and its leader, a person named Osama bin Laden, are linked to many other organizations in unlike countries, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
At that place are thousands of these terrorists in more than than lx countries.
They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan where they are trained in the tactics of terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hibernate in countries around the world to plot evil and destruction.
The leadership of Al Qaeda has smashing influence in Afghanistan and supports the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country. In Afghanistan we come across Al Qaeda's vision for the world. Transitional islamic state of afghanistan'southward people have been brutalized, many are starving and many have fled.
Women are not allowed to attend school. You can be jailed for owning a television. Religion tin be practiced only as their leaders dictate. A man tin be jailed in Afghanistan if his beard is not long enough.
The Us respects the people of Afghanistan--later on all, we are currently its largest source of humanitarian aid--but we condemn the Taliban authorities.
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It is non merely repressing its own people, it is threatening people everywhere past sponsoring and sheltering and supplying terrorists.
By aiding and abetting murder, the Taliban government is committing murder. And tonight the United States of America makes the post-obit demands on the Taliban.
Deliver to United states regime all of the leaders of Al Quaeda who hibernate in your state.
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Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens yous accept unjustly imprisoned. Protect strange journalists, diplomats and aid workers in your land. Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training army camp in Afghanistan. And paw over every terrorist and every person and their support structure to appropriate government.
(APPLAUSE) Give the United States total access to terrorist preparation camps, so nosotros tin make sure they are no longer operating.
These demands are not open to negotiation or word.
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The Taliban must human action and human activity immediately.
They will mitt over the terrorists or they will share in their fate.
I also want to speak tonight direct to Muslims throughout the world. We respect your religion. It's practiced freely by many millions of Americans and past millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are proficient and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the proper noun of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah.
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The terrorists are traitors to their ain faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. Information technology is non our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every regime that supports them.
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Our state of war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, just information technology does not end there.
It will non end until every terrorist grouping of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
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Americans are request ``Why do they detest u.s.?''
They detest what they see correct hither in this sleeping accommodation: a democratically elected authorities. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our liberty of organized religion, our freedom of voice communication, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.
They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries such as Egypt, Saudi arabia and Jordan. They want to drive Israel out of the Middle East. They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions of Asia and Africa.
These terrorists kill not only to end lives, but to disrupt and finish a way of life. With every barbarism, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the earth and forsaking our friends. They stand against us because nosotros stand up in their way.
We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety.
Nosotros have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. Past sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the style to where information technology ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.
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Americans are asking, "How will we fight and win this war?''
We will directly every resource at our command--every ways of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of police force enforcement, every fiscal influence, and every necessary weapon of war--to the devastation and to the defeat of the global terror network.
Now, this war will not be similar the war confronting Republic of iraq a decade agone, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. It will non look like the air war in a higher place Kosovo two years ago, where no footing troops were used and not a unmarried American was lost in combat.
Our response involves far more instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not look one boxing, but a lengthy campaign unlike whatsoever other nosotros have e'er seen. It may include dramatic strikes visible on TV and covert operations secret fifty-fifty in success.
We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them i against another, drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no residuum.
And nosotros will pursue nations that provide help or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with united states of america or you are with the terrorists.
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From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or back up terrorism will be regarded past the Us equally a hostile regime. Our nation has been put on detect, we're not immune from attack. We will have defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans.
Today, dozens of federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local governments, take responsibilities affecting homeland security.
These efforts must be coordinated at the highest level. So tonight, I announce the creation of a Cabinet-level position reporting directly to me, the Role of Homeland Security.
And tonight, I too announce a distinguished American to lead this effort, to strengthen American security: a armed forces veteran, an effective governor, a true patriot, a trusted friend, Pennsylvania'southward Tom Ridge.
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He will lead, oversee and coordinate a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard our country confronting terrorism and answer to any attacks that may come.
These measures are essential. The simply style to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate information technology and destroy it where it grows.
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Many will be involved in this endeavor, from FBI agents, to intelligence operatives, to the reservists we take called to active duty. All deserve our thanks, and all have our prayers.
And tonight a few miles from the damaged Pentagon, I have a message for our military: Be ready. I have called the military machine to alert, and there is a reason.
The 60 minutes is coming when America will human action, and y'all will make the states proud.
This is not, nonetheless, but America'south fight. And what is at stake is non only America's freedom.
This is the world's fight. This is civilization's fight. This is the fight of all who believe in progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom.
Nosotros ask every nation to join us. Nosotros will ask and nosotros will need the help of law forces, intelligence service and banking systems around the world. The United states is grateful that many nations and many international organizations have already responded with sympathy and with support--nations from Latin America to Asia to Africa to Europe to the Islamic world.
Perhaps the NATO charter reflects all-time the attitude of the globe: An set on on ane is an assault on all. The civilized world is rallying to America's side.
They sympathize that if this terror goes unpunished, their ain cities, their ain citizens may be next. Terror unanswered can non just bring down buildings, it can threaten the stability of legitimate governments.
And you know what? Nosotros're not going to let information technology.
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Americans are asking, ``What is expected of us?''
I ask you to live your lives and hug your children.
I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to exist at-home and resolute, fifty-fifty in the face of a continuing threat.
I ask you to uphold the values of America and call back why so many have come up hither.
We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No i should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic groundwork or religious faith.
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I enquire you to continue to support the victims of this tragedy with your contributions. Those who want to give tin can get to a central source of data, Libertyunites.org, to find the names of groups providing directly assist in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The thousands of FBI agents who are at present at work in this investigation may need your cooperation, and I ask you to give information technology. I ask for your patience with the delays and inconveniences that may accompany tighter security and for your patience in what will exist a long struggle.
I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy. Terrorists attacked a symbol of American prosperity; they did not touch its source.
America is successful because of the hard piece of work and creativity and enterprise of our people. These were the true strengths of our economy before September xi, and they are our strengths today.
And finally, delight continue praying for the victims of terror and their families, for those in uniform and for our cracking country. Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journeying ahead.
Tonight I thank my beau Americans for what you lot take already done and for what yous will practise.
And ladies and gentlemen of the Congress, I thanks, their representatives, for what you take already done and for what we will do together.
Tonight we face new and sudden national challenges.
We will come together to improve air safe, to dramatically expand the number of air marshals on domestic flights and have new measures to forbid hijacking.
We will come together to promote stability and keep our airlines flying with direct assistance during this emergency.
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We volition come together to give law enforcement the additional tools information technology needs to rail downwards terror here at home.
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We volition come together to strengthen our intelligence capabilities to know the plans of terrorists earlier they act and to notice them earlier they strike.
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Nosotros will come together to take active steps that strengthen America's economy and put our people back to work.
Tonight, we welcome two leaders who embody the boggling spirit of all New Yorkers, Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
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Every bit a symbol of America'due south resolve, my administration will work with Congress and these two leaders to prove the globe that we will rebuild New York City.
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After all that has only passed, all the lives taken and all the possibilities and hopes that died with them, it is natural to wonder if America's future is one of fear.
Some speak of an age of terror. I know there are struggles ahead and dangers to face. But this country volition define our times, not be divers by them.
As long as the U.s.a. of America is determined and stiff, this volition not exist an age of terror. This volition exist an historic period of liberty here and across the world.
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Great impairment has been done to u.s.a.. We have suffered swell loss. And in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment.
Freedom and fear are at war. The accelerate of man freedom, the not bad achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on usa.
Our nation, this generation, volition elevator the night threat of violence from our people and our future. Nosotros will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. Nosotros will not tire, we volition not falter and we will not neglect.
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Information technology is my promise that in the months and years alee life will render almost to normal. We'll get back to our lives and routines and that is good.
Even grief recedes with time and grace.
Merely our resolve must not pass. Each of u.s.a. will remember what happened that mean solar day and to whom it happened. We volition remember the moment the news came, where nosotros were and what we were doing.
Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will comport memories of a face up and a vocalization gone forever.
And I will comport this. It is the police shield of a human being named George Howard who died at the Earth Trade Center trying to save others.
It was given to me by his mom, Arlene (ph), every bit a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not terminate.
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I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted information technology. I will not yield, I will not balance, I will non relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.
The course of this disharmonize is non known, yet its outcome is sure. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have e'er been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
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Boyfriend citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice, assured of the rightness of our cause and confident of the victories to come.
In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom and may he watch over the United states of America.
Give thanks you.
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