Mr. President, I rise, first, to offer strong words of support for the statement that was just offered by the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts. I, as well, rise today to speak in support of the Iraq resolution that the Senate will consider tomorrow. 议长先生，我首先起身，对来自马萨诸塞州的那位杰出参议员刚才所作的发言表示强烈支持。我今天同样起身，支持参议院明日将审议的伊拉克决议。
Mr. President, the news from Iraq is very bad. Last week, a suicide bomber stood outside a bookstore and killed 20 people. Other attacks killed 118 Shia pilgrims. On Sunday, a car bomb went off in central Baghdad, and more than 30 people died. And the road from the airport into Baghdad is littered with smoldering debris, craters from improvised explosive devices, and the memories of our sons and daughters. 议长先生，来自伊拉克的消息非常糟糕。上周，一名自杀式炸弹袭击者站在一家书店外，炸死20人。其他袭击造成118名什叶派朝圣者丧生。星期日，一枚汽车炸弹在巴格达市中心爆炸，30多人死亡。从机场通往巴格达的道路上满是冒烟的残骸、简易爆炸装置炸出的弹坑，以及对我们儿女的记忆。
Mr. President, the civil war in Iraq rages on. The insurgents have started to change their tactics. They hide in buildings and along the streets and wait for our helicopters. They've shot down at least eight U.S. helicopters in the last month. More of our soldiers are dying and coming home with their bodies broken and their nerves shattered at a VA system completely unprepared for what they need to rebuild their lives. 议长先生，伊拉克的内战仍在肆虐。叛乱分子开始改变战术。他们藏身于建筑物内和街道旁，等待我们的直升机。过去一个月他们击落了至少八架美国直升机。更多的士兵阵亡或带着残破的身躯和崩溃的神经回国，而退伍军人事务部体系对他们重建生活所需的一切毫无准备。
Mr. President, it is not enough for the President to tell us that victory in this war is simply a matter of American resolve. The American people have been extraordinarily resolved. They've seen their sons and daughters killed or wounded in the streets of Fallujah. They've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this effort -- money that they know could have been devoted to strengthening our homeland security and our competitive standing as a Nation. 议长先生，总统仅仅告诉我们这场战争的胜利只是美国决心的一个问题，这远远不够。美国人民已经表现出了非凡的决心。他们看着自己的儿女在费卢杰的街头伤亡。他们为这项行动花费了数千亿美元——他们深知这些钱本可用于加强我们的国土安全和我们国家的竞争力。
The failure has not been a failure of resolve. That's not what's led us into chaos. It's been a failure of strategy; and it's time that the strategy change. 失败并非决心的失败。那不是把我们带入混乱的原因。失败的是战略；现在是改变战略的时候了。
There is no military solution, Mr. President, to the civil war that rages on in Iraq; and it's time for us to redeploy so that a political solution becomes possible. 议长先生，伊拉克持续的内战没有军事解决办法；现在是我们重新部署部队、使政治解决成为可能的时候了。
The news from Iraq is very bad, and it's been that way for at least four years. We all wish the -- that the land the President and the Vice President speak of exists. We wish that there was an Iraq where the insurgency was in the last throes, where the people work with security, where children play outside, where a vibrant new democracy lights up the nighttime sky. We wish for those things, but there's no alternative reality to what we see and read about in the news, to what we've experienced these long four years. 来自伊拉克的消息非常糟糕，而且至少四年来一直如此。我们都希望——希望总统和副总统所描绘的那片土地确实存在。我们希望存在这样一个伊拉克：叛乱已近尾声，人民安稳工作，孩子们在户外玩耍，一个充满活力的新民主国家点亮夜空。我们期盼这些，但面对我们在新闻中看到和读到的、这漫长四年里我们所经历的一切，不存在任何替代的现实。
I repeat, Mr. President, there is no military solution to this war. At this point, no amount of soldiers can solve the grievances at the heart of someone else's civil war. The Iraqi people -- Shia, Sunni, and Kurd -- must come to the table and reach a political settlement themselves. If they want peace, they must do the hard work necessary to achieve it. 我再说一遍，议长先生，这场战争没有军事解决办法。此时此刻，再多的士兵也无法解决别人内战核心的怨怼。伊拉克人民——什叶派、逊尼派和库尔德人——必须坐到谈判桌前，自行达成政治和解。如果他们想要和平，就必须付出达成和平所需的艰苦努力。
Our failed strategy in Iraq has strengthened Iran's strategic position, reduced U.S. credibility and influence around the world, placed Israel and other nations friendly to the United States in the region in greater peril. These are not the signs of a well-laid plan. It's time for a profound change. 我们在伊拉克的失败战略加强了伊朗的战略地位，削弱了美国在世界各地的信誉和影响力，使以色列及该地区其他亲美国家陷入更大的危险。这些都不是周密计划的迹象。现在是做出深刻改变的时候了。
This is what we're trying to do here today. We're saying it is time to start making plans to redeploy our troops so that they can focus on the wider struggle against terrorism, win the war in Afghanistan, strengthen our position in the Middle East, and pressure the Iraqis to reach a political settlement. Even if this effort falls short, we will continue to try to accomplish what the American people asked for last November. 这正是我们今天在此试图做的。我们在说，现在是开始制定重新部署部队计划的时候，这样他们就能专注于更广泛的反恐斗争、赢得阿富汗战争、巩固我们在中东的地位，并迫使伊拉克人达成政治和解。即便这一努力不够充分，我们也将继续努力实现美国人民去年十一月所要求的。
I'm glad to see, though, that this new effort is gaining consensus. And I want to commend Senator Reid for his efforts. He took the time to listen -- so many of us from both Chambers of Congress could help develop this plan. 不过，我很高兴看到这一新努力正在形成共识。我要赞扬里德参议员的努力。他花时间倾听——让我们中来自国会两院的许多人都能帮助制定这一计划。
The decision in particular to begin a phased redeployment, with the goal of redeploying all our combat forces by March 31st, 2008, is the right step. It's a measure the Iraq Study Group spoke of, an idea I borrowed from them, an idea that, in a bill I introduced, now has more than 60 cosponsors from House and Senate and from both sides of the aisle. They've supported this plan since I announced a similar plan in January. 特别是，开始分阶段撤军、目标是到2008年3月31日重新部署全部战斗部队的决定，是正确的一步。这是伊拉克研究小组所提及的措施，一个我从他们那里借鉴的想法，一个在我提出的一项法案中如今已获得国会两院两党60多名共同发起人支持的想法。自从我一月宣布一项类似计划以来，他们就一直支持这一计划。
The decision allows some U.S. forces to remain in Iraq with a clear mission to protect U.S. and coalition personnel, conduct counterterrorism operations, and to train and equip Iraqi forces; and that is a smart decision. President al-Maliki spoke at a conference and warned that the violence in Iraq could spread throughout the region if it goes unchecked. By maintaining a strong presence in Iraq and the Middle East, as both my bill and the leadership bill does, we can ensure that the chaos does not spread. 这一决定允许部分美军留在伊拉克，执行明确任务——保护美国和联军人员、开展反恐行动、训练和装备伊拉克部队；这是一个明智的决定。马利基总统在一次会议上发言警告说，如果不加遏制，伊拉克的暴力可能蔓延至整个地区。通过像我的法案和领导层法案那样在伊拉克和中东保持强大存在，我们可以确保混乱不会蔓延。
I should also add that the decision to begin this phased redeployment within 120 days is a practical one. Our military options have been exhausted. It's time to seek a political solution to this war, and with this decision we send a clear signal to the parties involved that they need to arrive at an accommodation. 我还要补充，在120天内开始这一分阶段撤军的决定是一个务实的决定。我们的军事选项已经用尽。现在是寻求这场战争政治解决的时候，通过这一决定，我们向有关各方发出明确信号：他们需要达成妥协。
Mr. President, while I strongly believe that this war never should have been authorized, I believe we must be as careful in ending the war as we were careless getting in. While I prefer my approach, as reflected in my bill, I believe that this new resolution does begin to point U.S. policy in Iraq and the region in the right direction. An end to the war, and achieving a political solution to Iraq's civil war, will not happen unless we demand it. 议长先生，虽然我坚信这场战争从一开始就不该被授权，但我认为我们在结束战争时必须像我们在卷入时那样漫不经心一样地审慎。虽然我更倾向于我的方案（正如我法案中所体现的），但我相信这项新决议确实开始使美国在伊拉克和该地区的政策走上正确方向。除非我们坚决要求，否则战争的结束、以及伊拉克内战政治解决的实现都不会发生。
Peace with stability doesn't just happen because we wish for it. It comes when we never give in and never give up and never tire of working towards a life on Earth worthy of our human dignity. The decisions that have been made have led us to this crossroads -- a moment of great peril, Mr. President. 和平与稳定不会仅仅因为我们祈愿就降临。它来自我们永不屈服、永不放弃、永不厌倦地为一种配得上人类尊严的世间生活而奋斗。已作出的决定把我们带到了这个十字路口——一个极度危险的时刻，议长先生。
We have a choice. We can continue down the road that's weakened our credibility and damaged our strategic interests in the region or we can turn toward the future. The road won't be smooth, and I have to say, Mr. President, that there will be risks with any approach. But this approach is our last best hope to end this war so we can begin to bring our troops home and begin the hard work of securing our country and our world from the threats that we face. 我们有一个选择。我们可以继续走那条削弱了我们信誉、损害了我们在该地区战略利益的路，也可以转向未来。这条路不会平坦，而且我必须说，议长先生，任何方案都会有风险。但这个方案是我们结束这场战争、开始把我们的部队接回家、开始为我们的国家和世界抵御我们所面临威胁而进行艰苦工作的最后、最好的希望。
The President has said he will continue down the road towards more troops and more of the same failed policies. The President sought and won authorization from Congress to wage this war from the start. But he is now dismissing and ignoring the will of the American people, that is tired of years of watching the human and financial tolls mount. 总统已表示他将沿着增兵和延续同样失败政策的道路继续走下去。总统从一开始就寻求并获得了国会发动这场战争的授权。但他现在正在漠视和忽略美国人民的意志，人民已厌倦了多年来目睹人员与财力的代价不断攀升。
Mr. President, the news from Iraq is very bad, but it can change if we in this Chamber say "enough." 议长先生，来自伊拉克的消息非常糟糕，但如果我们在本议事厅说出"够了"，情况就可以改变。
Let this day be the day that begins the painful and difficult work of moving from this crossroad. 让这一天成为开始从这一十字路口前行那痛苦而艰难工作的一天。
Let this be the day that we begin pulling towards the future with a responsible conclusion to this painful chapter in our Nation's history. 让这一天成为我们开始以负责任的方式结束我国历史上这一痛苦篇章、迈向未来的一天。
Mr. President, let this be the day when we finally send a message that is so clear and so emphatic that it cannot be ignored. 议长先生，让这一天成为我们最终发出一条如此清晰、如此有力、不容忽视的信息的一天。
Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the floor. 谢谢您，议长先生。我让出发言权。