Good afternoon. Let 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. 大家下午好。首先我要说明，尽管这场集会被称为反战集会，但站在你们面前的我，并非在任何情况下都反对战争。
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. 南北战争是历史上最血腥的战争之一，然而，正是经历刀剑的熔炉与无数人的牺牲，我们才得以开始完善这个联邦，并将奴隶制的祸害从我们的土地上驱除。
I don't oppose all wars. 我并不反对一切战争。
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. 珍珠港遭到轰炸后的第二天，我的外祖父便报名参战，加入巴顿将军的部队。他目睹欧洲战场上遍地的死者和垂死者，也听过那些最先进入奥斯维辛和特雷布林卡的战友讲述亲身经历。他为一种更宏大的自由而战，是那座战胜邪恶的民主兵工厂的一员；他的战斗并非徒劳。
I don't oppose all wars. 我并不反对一切战争。
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. “9·11”事件之后，在亲眼看到杀戮与毁灭、尘土与泪水之后，我支持本届政府作出的承诺：追捕并铲除那些以偏执之名屠杀无辜者的人。为了阻止这样的悲剧再次发生，我本人也愿意拿起武器。
I don't oppose war in all circumstances, and when I look out over this crowd today, I know there is no shortage of patriots or patriotism. What I do oppose is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perles and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, 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. 我并非在任何情况下都反对战争。今天，当我望向在场的人群时，我知道这里从不缺少爱国者，也不缺少爱国精神。我反对的是一场愚蠢的战争。我反对的是一场草率的战争。我反对的是理查德·珀尔、保罗·沃尔福威茨以及本届政府中其他只会纸上谈兵的“周末战士”，无耻地企图把他们自己的意识形态议程强加给我们，而全然不顾由此造成的生命损失与苦难。
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 thru the worst month since the Great Depression. 我反对的，是卡尔·罗夫之流的政治打手企图转移我们的注意力，让我们忽视没有医疗保险的人数上升、贫困率上升和收入中位数下降，忽视企业丑闻，也忽视股市刚刚经历了大萧条以来最糟糕的一个月。
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. 这正是我所反对的：一场愚蠢的战争，一场草率的战争，一场不以理性而以激情为依据、不以原则而以政治为依据的战争。
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. 现在我要把话说清楚：我对萨达姆·侯赛因没有任何幻想。他是一个残暴的人，一个冷酷无情的人，一个为了巩固自身权力而屠杀本国人民的人。他一再蔑视联合国决议，阻挠联合国核查小组，发展化学和生物武器，并一直谋求获得核能力。
He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. 他是个坏人。没有他，这个世界和伊拉克人民都会过得更好。
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. 但我也知道，萨达姆并未对美国或其邻国构成迫在眉睫的直接威胁；伊拉克经济已经支离破碎，其军事实力只剩昔日的一小部分。只要与国际社会协同行动，我们就能遏制他，直至他像所有微不足道的独裁者一样，被扫进历史的垃圾堆。
I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. 我知道，即使对伊拉克的战争取得成功，也意味着美国必须对伊拉克实施一场期限不明、成本不明、后果不明的占领。
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. 我知道，在缺乏明确理由和国际社会有力支持的情况下入侵伊拉克，只会煽旺中东的战火，激发阿拉伯世界最坏而非最好的一面，并增强“基地”组织招募人员的能力。
I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. 我并不反对一切战争。我反对的是愚蠢的战争。
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. 因此，为了给我们的孩子创造一个更加公正、更加安全的世界，让我们今天向总统传达一个明确的信息。
You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, thru 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. 布什总统，你想打一场仗吗？那就让我们通过有效而协调的情报行动、切断支持恐怖主义的金融网络，并建立一个不只是发布颜色预警的国土安全计划，彻底完成打击本·拉登和“基地”组织的战斗。
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 in already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe. 布什总统，你想打一场仗吗？那就让我们确保联合国核查人员能够开展工作，切实执行核不扩散条约；让俄罗斯这样的昔日敌人和今日盟友妥善保管并最终销毁其核材料储备；确保巴基斯坦和印度等国家永远不使用它们已经拥有的可怕武器；让我们国内的军火商停止向席卷全球的无数战争供应武器、推波助澜。
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. 布什总统，你想打一场仗吗？那就让我们确保我们在中东那些所谓的盟友——沙特和埃及政府——停止压迫本国人民、压制异议、纵容腐败与不平等，并改变其糟糕的经济治理，以免他们的年轻人在没有教育、没有前途、没有希望的环境中长大，成为恐怖组织唾手可得的招募对象。
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. 布什总统，你想打一场仗吗？那就让我们通过一项不再只为埃克森和美孚利益服务的能源政策，摆脱对中东石油的依赖。
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. 这些才是我们需要进行的战斗，这些才是我们愿意投身的战斗：反对愚昧与偏执，反对腐败与贪婪，反对贫困与绝望。
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. 战争的后果极其可怕，牺牲无法衡量。在我们有生之年，也许会再次需要挺身捍卫自由，并付出战争的代价。但我们不应该——也绝不会——盲目走上那条地狱般的道路。我们也不应让那些即将奔赴战场、献出生命的人，让那些将以鲜血展现最彻底忠诚的人，白白作出如此惨痛的牺牲。