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President Obama Recalls Mistakes of Iraq War
奧巴馬回憶伊拉克戰爭錯誤
Jake: Mr. President, in your speech at American University yesterday,you called this the most important foreign policy debate that we’ve witnessed since the Iraq War.
總統先生，昨天在美國大學的演講中，你稱這是自伊拉克戰爭以來我們見證的最重要的外交政策辯論。
Obama: Right.
對。
Jake: I think if you talk to most Americans, and particularly our generation, they don’t necessarily feel that. I wonder why you think that is?
我認為，如果你跟大部分美國人談一下，尤其是我們這一代人，他們不會這樣認為。為什么你會有這樣的看法？
Obama: Well, I lived through the debate of the Iraq War. I wasn’t yet in the United States Senate. I was a state senator in Illinois.
我經歷了伊拉克戰爭的辯論。那時我還不在美國參議院。當時我只是伊利諾伊州一名參議員。
Archive clip: I don’t oppose war in all circumstances. What I do oppose is a dumb war.
我不反對任何情況下發動戰爭。但是我反對盲目愚蠢的戰爭。
Obama: At the time, there was a drumbeat that going into Iraq was the right thing to do.
那時，人們覺得進軍伊拉克是正確的事情。
George H W Bush: We will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American people.
我們會回應威脅美國民眾的任何危險和敵人。
Obama: A lot of people didn’t get engaged in that debate then either.
那時許多人沒有參與辯論。
It was only after the decision was made.
只是做出決策之后才參與討論。
It was only after the initial push into Baghdad descended into massive chaos that suddenly the country realized that we had made a big, strategic mistake.
只是最初進軍巴格達引發大范圍的混亂之后，整個國家才突然意識到我們犯了一個大的戰略錯誤。
And my point is that now is the time to have the debate, not after decisions are made.
我的觀點是，現在是進行辯論的正確實際，而不是做出決策之后才進行辯論。
