This is a failure of Obama.
The Country has been attacked 49 innocent people killed, the Country is in pain,it wants leadership, it wants to hear from the POTUS, WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING,and instead we get a lecture from one of the most narcissistic individuals to ever hold POTUS, about what's wrong with the rest of us, who don't have the tolerance that he does, for people he thinks are been unfairly criticised.
The Country has been attacked 49 innocent people killed, the Country is in pain,it wants leadership, it wants to hear from the POTUS, WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING,and instead we get a lecture from one of the most narcissistic individuals to ever hold POTUS, about what's wrong with the rest of us, who don't have the tolerance that he does, for people he thinks are been unfairly criticised.
Here is the full text. Apologize for CAPS. I copied it from CSPAN transcripts page and made paragraph indentations to make it easier to read (but not digest 
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I JUST MET WITH MY NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AS PART OF OUR REGULAR EFFORT TO REVIEW AND INTENSIFY OUR CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE TERROR GROUP ISIL. THE MEETING WAS PLANNED BEFORE THE TERRIBLE ATTACK IN IN ORLANDO BUT OBVIOUSLY THAT TRAGEDY, AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE SHAPED OUR WORK TODAY. IN ALL OF OUR EFFORTS FOREMOST IN OUR MINDS IS THE LOSS AND GRIEF OF THE PEOPLE OF ORLANDO, THOSE WHO DIED, THOSE WHO ARE STILL RECOVERING, THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR LOVED ONES HARMED, THE FRIENDS OF OURS WHO ARE LESBIAN AND GAY AND BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER WHO WERE I TARGETED. I WANT TO REMIND THEM THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND OUR ALLIES AND FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD STAND WITH YOU AND ARE THINKING ABOUT YOU AND ARE PRAYING FOR YOU.
AS DIRECTOR COMEY HAS SAID, WE CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION TO INDICATE THAT A FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUP DIRECTED THE ATTACK IN ORLANDO. IT IS INCREASINGLY CLEAR, HOWEVER, THAT THE KILLER TOOK IN EXTREMIST INFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA OVER THE INTERNET. HE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AN ANGRY, DISTURBED, UNSTABLE YOUNG MAN WHO BECAME RADICALIZED. AS WE KNOW ALL TOO WELL, TERRORIST GROUPS LIKE ISIL HAVE CALLED ON PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND HERE IN THE UNITED STATES TO ATTACK INNOCENT CIVILIANS. THEIR THEIR PROPAGANDA, THEIR VIDEOS, THEIR POSTINGS ARE PERVASIVE AND MORE EASILY ACCESSIBLE THAN WE THIS WANT. THIS INDIVIDUAL APPEARS TO HAVE ABSORBED SOME OF THAT. DURING HIS SHOOTING SPREE THE KILLER IN ORLANDO PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIL. AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, THESE LONE ACTORS OR SMALL CELLS OF TERRORISTS ARE VERY HARD TO PROTECT AND VERY HARD TO PREVENT. BUT BUT ACROSS OUR GOVERNMENT AT EVERY LEVEL, FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL, MILITARY AND CIVILIAN, WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO STOP THESE KINDS OF ATTACKS. WE WE WORK TO SUCCEED 100% OF THE AN TIME.
AN ATTACKER AS WE SAW IN ORLANDO ONLY HAS TO SUCCEED ONCE. OUR EXTRAORDINARY PERSONNEL, INTELLIGENCE, MILITARY, HOMELAND SECURITY, LAW ENFORCEMENT HAVE PREVENTED MANY ATTACKS AND SAVED MANY LIVES AND WE CAN NEVER THANK THEM ENOUGH. BUT WE ARE ALL SOBERED BY THE FACT THAT DESPITE THE EXTRAORDINARY HARD WORK, SOMETHING LIKE ORLANDO CAN IN OCCUR. IN OUR MEETING TODAY, DIRECTOR COMEY UPDATED US ON THE INVESTIGATION IN ORLANDO SECRETARY JOHNSON REVIEWED MEASURES WE CONTINUE TO TAKE ON BEHALF OF HOMELAND SECURITY, SECRETARY CARTER AND CHAIRMAN DUNFORD REVIEWED THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISIL. I WANT TO THANK SECRETARY AND HIS TEAM HERE AT TREASURY FOR HOSTING US AND FOR THEIR TIRELESS EFFORTS TO CUT OFF THE MONEY ISIL RELIES ON TO FUND ITS TERROR NETWORK.
AT THE OUTSET, I WANT TO REITERATE OUR OBJECTIVE IN THIS FI OUR MISSION OUR MISSION IS TO DESTROY ISIL. SINCE I LAST UPDATED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON OUR CAMPAIGN TWO MONTHS AGO, WE'VE SEEN THIS CONTINUES TO BE A DIFFICULT FIGHT BUT WE ARE MAKING SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS. OVER THE PAST TWO MONTHS I'VE AUTHORIZED A SERIES OF STEPS TO RATCHET UP OUR FIGHT AGAINST ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL U.S. PERSONNEL INCLUDING FORCES IN SYRIA TO ZEST LOCAL FORCES BATTLING ISIL THERE, ADDITIONAL ADVISERS TO WORK MORE CLOSELY WITH THE SECURITY FORCES AND ADDITIONAL ASSETS INCLUDING ATTACK HABITS AND ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR LOCAL FORCES IN NORTHERN IRAQ. OUR AIRCRAFT CONTINUED TO LAUNCH FROM USS HARRY TRUMAN NOW IN THE OUR MEDITERRANEAN. OUR B-52 BOMBERS ARE HITTING ISIL WITH PRECISION STRIKES. TARGETS ARE BEING IDENTIFIED AND HIT EVEN MORE QUICKLY. SO FAR 13,000 AIRSTRIKES. THIS CAMPAIGN AT THIS STAGE IS FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS. AS A RESULT ISIL IS UNDER MORE PRESSURE THAN EVER BEFORE. ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE KEY LEADERS. THIS THIS INCLUDES SALMAN, SENIOR MILITARY LEADER, AL SUDANI, LEADER IN ANBAR PROVINCE AND HERE THE TOP ISIL COMMANDER IN SO FALLUJAH. SO FAR WE'VE TAKEN OUT MORE THAN 120 ISIL LEADERS AND COMMANDERS AND OUR MESSAGE IS CLEAR. IF YOU TARGET AMERICA AND OUR ALLIES, YOU WILL NOT BE SAFE. YOU WILL NEVER BE SAFE. ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE GROUND IN IRAQ. IN THE PAST IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS WITH SUPPORT HAVE LIBERATED THE TOWN OF RUPA AND PUSHED UP EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEY LIBERATING TOWN OF HIT AND HADIFA. MEANWHILE IN THE NORTH IRAQI FORCES CONTINUE TO PUSH UP THE TIGRESS TIGRESS RIVER VALLEY. ALL TOLLED, ISIL HAS LOST MORE THAN HALF THE TERRITORY IT CONTROLLED IN IRAQ AND WILL LOSE MORE.
ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE GROUND IN SYRIA, A COALITION OF LOCAL FORCES IS PRESSURING A KEY TOWN, WHICH MEANS THE NOOSE IS TIGHTENING AROUND ISIL IN RAQQAH AS WELL. IN SHORT OUR COALITION CONTINUES TO BE ON OFFENSE, ISIL IS ON IT'S DEFENSE. IT'S BEEN A FULL YEAR SINCE ISIL HAS BEEN ABLE TO MOUNT A MAJOR SUCCESSFUL OPERATION IN EITHER SYRIA OR IRAQ. AS ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE TERRITORY, IT ALSO LOSES MONEY THAT IS ITS LIFE BLOOD. AS A RESULT OF OUR STRIKES AGAINST ITS OIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPLY LINES, WE BELIEVE THAT WE'VE CUT ISIL'S REVENUE FROM OIL BY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER MONTH. IN DESTROYING STORAGE SITES WHERE THEY KEEP THEIR CASH, WE'VE DEPRIVED ISIL OF MILLIONS THANKS MORE. THANKS TO GREAT WORK OF SECRETARY LU AND MARIANNE OTHERS TODAY AND WORKING WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD ISIL IS CUT OFF FROM INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM. CUTTING OFF ISIL'S MONEY MAY NOT BE AS DRAMATIC AS MILITARY STRIKES BUT IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AND WE'RE SEEING RESULTS. ISIL'S ISIL'S CASH RESERVES ARE DOWN, IT'S HAD TO CUT SALARIES FOR IT'S FIGHTERS. IT'S RESORTING TO EXTORTION OF THOSE TRAPPED IN ITS GRIP AND BY ISIL'S ADMISSION SOME OF ITS LEADERS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT STEALING CASH AND GOLD. ONCE AGAIN ISIM'S TRUE NATURE HAS BEEN REVEALED. THIS IS NOT RELIGIOUS WARRIORS, THEY ARE THUGS AND THIEVES. IN CONTINUING TO PUSH ON THIS FRONT, I WANT TO MENTION IT IS CRITICAL FOR OUR FRIENDS IN THE SENATE TO CONFIRM MY NOMINEE FOR UNDER-SECRETARY OF TERRORISM AND I ADAM ADAM SERVED AND EVERYONE AGREES HE'S IMMINENTLY QUALIFIED HE'S BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS. IT'S 120 DAYS AND HE'S NOT BEEN GIVEN A FULL VOTE. THERE'S NO GOOD REASON FOR IT. IT'S INEXCUSABLE. IT'S TIME FOR SENATE TO DO OUR JOB, PUT NATIONAL SECURITY FIRST AND HAVE A VOTE ON ADAM WHO CAN LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIL AND HELP KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE.
ISIL'S RANKS ARE SHRINKING AS THEIR THEIR MORAL IS SINKING. AS ONE DEFECTOR SAID, ISIL IS NOT BRINGING ISLAM TO THE WORLD AND PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT. THANKS TO INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS, THE FLOW OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS, INCLUDING FROM AMERICA TO SYRIA AND IRAQ HAS PLUMMETED. IN FACT, OUR INTELLIGENCE FEELS RANKS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO LOWEST LEVELS IN MORE THAN TWO AND A HALF YEARS. EVEN AS WE CONTINUE TO DESTROY ISIL MILITARILY, WE'RE ADDRESSING LARGER FORCES THAT HAVE ALLOWED THESE TERRORIST TOSS GAIN TRACTION IN PARTS OF THE WORLD. WITH REGARD TO IRAQ, THIS MEANS HELPING IRAQUIS STABILIZE COMMUNITIES AND PROMOTE INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENTS SO ISIL CANNOT RETURN. WITH REGARD TO SYRIA, IT MEANS OUR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE FRAGILE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES THE CESSATION OF THERE. THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES HAS NOT STOPPED ALL OR EVEN MOST OF THE HARDSHIP ON THE SYRIAN PEOPLE, THE HARDSHIP ON AND THE CIVILIANS. AND THE ASSAD REGIME HAS BEEN THE PRINCIPLE CULPRIT IN VIOLATING HOSTILITIES. ISIL AND AL NUSRA, AL QAEDA'S AFFILIATE IN SYRIA ALSO CONTINUE TO TERRORIZE SYRIANS. BUT AS FRAGILE AND INCOMPLETE AS CESSATION IS, IT HAS SAVED LIVES AND HAS ALLOWED DELIVER OF SOME LIFESAVING AID TO SYRIANS WHO ARE IN DESPERATE NEED. AS DIFFICULT AS IT IS, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR A POLITICAL PROCESS THAT CAN END THE CIVIL WAR AND RESULT IN TRANSITION AWAY FROM ASSAD. BEYOND SYRIA AND IRAQ, ISIL IS ALSO LOSING GROUND IN LIBYA. FORCES OF LIBYAN UNITY GOVERNMENT GOING AFTER ISIL IN THEIR STRONGHOLD IN SIRT AND WILL CONTINUE TO ASSIST THE GOVERNMENT AS IT WORKS TO SECURE ITS COUNTRY. LASTLY, HERE AT HOME, IF WE WANT TO HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT PROTECT AGAINST HOME GROWN EXTREMISTS, THE KIND OF TRAGEDIES THAT OCCURRED AT SAN BERNARDINO AND NOW HAVE OCCURRED IN ORLANDO, THERE IS A MEANINGFUL WAY TO DO THAT. WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL AMERICANS TO GET THEIR HANDS ON WEAPONS OF WAR THAT LET THEM KILL DOZENS OF INNOCENTS.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE, WE CANNOT PREVENT EVERY TRAGEDY. WE KNOW THAT CONSISTENT WITH THE SECOND AMENDMENT, THERE ARE COMMON SENSE STEPS THAT COULD REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE AND COULD REDUCE THE LETHALITY OF SOMEBODY WHO INTENDS TO DO OTHER PEOPLE WE SHOULD HARM. WE SHOULD GIVE ATF RESOURCES THEY NEED TO ENFORCE THE GUN LAWS WE ALREADY HAVE. PEOPLE WITH POSSIBLE TIES TO TERRORISM WHO AREN'T ALLOWED ON A PLANE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO BUY A GUN. ENOUGH TALKING ABOUT BEING TOUGH ON TERRORISM. ACTUALLY BE TOUGH ON TERRORISM AND STOP MAKING IT EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR TERRORISTS TO BUY ASSAULT WEAPONS. REINSTATE THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN. MAKE MAKE IT HARDER FOR TERRORISTS TO USE THESE WEAPONS TO KILL US. OTHERWISE, DESPITE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS ACROSS OUR GOVERNMENT BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, BY OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, BY OUR MILITARY, DESPITE ALL THE SACRIFICES FOLKS MAKE, THESE KINDS OF EVENTS ARE GOING TO KEEP ON HAPPENING. AND THE WEAPONS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET MORE POWERFUL.
LET ME MAKE A FINAL POINT. FOR A WHILE NOW, THE MAIN CONTRIBUTION OF SOME OF MY FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE HAVE MADE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIL IS TO CRITICIZE THIS ADMINISTRATION AND ME FOR NOT USING THE PHRASE "RADICAL THAT'S ISLAM." THAT'S THE KEY, THEY TELL US. WE CAN'T BEAT ISIL UNLESS WE CALL THEM RADICAL ISLAMISTS.
WHAT EXACTLY WOULD USING THIS LABEL ACCOMPLISH? WHAT EXACTLY WOULD IT CHANGE? WOULD IT MAKE ISIL LESS COMMITTED TO TRY AND KILL AMERICANS? WOULD IT WOULD IT BRING IN MORE ALLIES? IS THERE A MILITARY STRATEGY THAT IS SERVED BY THIS? THE ANSWER IS NONE OF THE ABOVE. CALLING A THREAT BY A DIFFERENT NAME DOES NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY.
THIS IS A POLITICAL DISTRACTION. SINCE BEFORE I WAS PRESIDENT, I'VE BEEN CLEAR ABOUT HOW EXTREMIST GROUPS HAVE PERVERTED ISLAM TO JUSTIFY TERRORISM. AS PRESIDENT I HAVE REPEATEDLY CALLED ON OUR MUSLIM FRIENDS AND ALLIES AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD TO WORK WITH US TO REJECT THIS TWISTED INTERPRETATION OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT THERE'S NOT THERE'S NOT BEEN A MOMENT IN MY 7 1/2 YEARS AS PRESIDENT WHERE WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO PURSUE A STRATEGY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T USE THE LABEL RADICAL ISLAM. NOT ONCE HAS AN ADVISER OF MINE SAID, MAN, IF WE REALLY USED THAT PHRASE, WE'RE GOING TO TURN THIS WHOLE THING AROUND. NOT ONCE.
SO IF SOMEONE SERIOUSLY THINKS THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHO WE'RE FIGHTING, IF FIGHTING, IF THERE'S ANYONE OUT THERE WHO THINKS WE'RE CONFUSED ABOUT WHO OUR ENEMIES ARE, THAT WOULD COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOUSANDS OF TERRORISTS WHO WE'VE TAKEN OFF THE BATTLEFIELD. IF THE IMPLICATION IS THAT THOSE OF US UP HERE AND THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE WORKING TO DEFEAT ISIL AREN'T TAKING THE FIGHT SERIOUSLY, THAT WOULD COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOSE WHO SPENT THE LAST 7 1/2 YEARS DISMANTLING AL QAEDA AND ALFATAH, FOR EXAMPLE, INCLUDING MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM WHO PUT THEIR LIVES AT RISK, SPECIAL FORCES I ORDERED TO GET BIN LADEN AND NOW ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. THEY KNOW FULL WELL WHO THE ENEMY IS. SO DO THE INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO SPEND COUNTLESS HOURS DISRUPTING PLOTS AND PROTECTING ALL AMERICANS INCLUDING POLITICIANS WHO TWEET AND APPEAR ON CABLE NEWS SHOWS. THEY KNOW WHO THE NATURE OF THE ENEMY IS. SO THERE'S NO MAGIC TO THE PHRASE RADICAL ISLAM. IT'S A POLITICAL TALKING POINT. IT'S NOT A STRATEGY.
THE REASON I AM CAREFUL ABOUT HOW I DESCRIBE THIS THREAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH ACTUALLY DEFEATING GROUPS GROUPS LIKE ISIL AND AL QAEDA WANT TO MAKE THIS WAR A WAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND AMERICA, OR BETWEEN ISLAM AND THE WEST. THEY WANT TO CLAIM THAT THEY ARE? THE TRUE LEADERS OF OVER A BILLION MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD WHO REJECT THEIR CRAZY NOTIONS. THEY WANT US TO VALIDATE THEM BY IMPLYING THEY SPEAK FOR THOSE BILLION PLUS PEOPLE, THAT THEY SPEAK FOR ISLAM. THAT'S THEIR PROPAGANDA. THAT'S HOW THEY RECRUIT. IF WE FALL INTO THE TRAP OF PAINTING ALL MUSLIMS WITH A BROAD BRUSH AND COMPLY WE ARE AT WAR WITH AN ENTIRE RELIGION, THEN WE ARE DOING THE TERRORISTS WORK FOR THEM. UP UNTIL THIS POINT THIS ARGUMENT ABOUT LABELS HAS MOSTLY JUST BEEN PARTISAN RHETORIC. SADLY WE'VE ALL BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO THAT KIND OF PARTISANSHIP. EVEN EVEN WHEN IT INVOLVES THE FIGHT AGAINST THESE EXTREMIST GROUPS.
THAT KIND OF YAPPIN' HAS NOT PREVENTED FOLKS ACROSS GOVERNMENT FROM DOING THEIR JOBS, FROM SACRIFICING AND WORKING REALLY HARD TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. BUT WE ARE NOW SEEING HOW DANGEROUS THIS KIND OF MIND-SET AND THIS KIND OF THINKING CAN WE'RE WE'RE STARTING TO SEE WHERE THIS KIND OF RHETORIC AND LOOSE TALK AND SLOPPINESS ABOUT WHO EXACTLY WE'RE FIGHTING, WHERE THIS CAN LEAD US. WE NOW HAVE PROPOSALS FROM THE PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BAR ALL MUSLIMS FROM EMIGRATING TO AMERICA. YOU HEAR LANGUAGE THAT SINGLES OUT IMMIGRANTS AND SUGGESTS ENTIRE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ARE COMPLICIT IN VIOLENCE. WHERE DOES THIS STOP? THE ORLANDO KILLER, ONE OF THE SAN BERNARDINO KILLERS, THE FT. HOOD KILLER, THEY WERE ALL U.S. CITIZENS.
ARE ARE WE GOING TO START TREATING ALL MUSLIM AMERICANS DIFFERENTLY? ARE ARE WE GOING TO START SUBJECTING THEM TO SPECIAL SURVEILLANCE? ARE WE GOING TO START DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH SOME WE'VE HEARD THESE SUGGESTIONS DURING THE COURSE OF THIS DO CAMPAIGN. DO REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS ACTUALLY AGREE WITH THIS? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE AMERICA WE WANT. IT DOESN'T REFLECT OUR DEMOCRATIC IDEALS. IT WON'T MAKE US MORE SAFE, IT WILL MAKE US LESS SAFE FUELING ISIL'S NOTION AMERICA HATES MUSLIMS, MAKING YOUNG MUSLIMS IN THIS COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD FEEL LIKE NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO, THEY ARE GOING TO BE UNDER SUSPICION AND UNDER ATTACK ATTACK. IT IT MAKES MUSLIM AMERICANS FEEL LIKE THEIR GOVERNMENT IS BETRAYING THEM. IT BETRAYS THE VERY VALUES AMERICA STANDS FOR. WE'VE GONE THROUGH MOMENTS IN OUR HISTORY BEFORE WHEN WE ACTED OUT OF FEAR AND WE CAME TO REGRET IT. WE'VE SEEN OUR GOVERNMENT MISTREAT OUR FELLOW CITIZENS, AND IT'S BEEN A SHAMEFUL PART OF OUR HISTORY.
THIS IS A COUNTRY FOUNDED ON BASIC FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF RELIGION. WE DON'T HAVE RELIGIOUS TESTS OUR HERE. OUR FOUNDERS, OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS ARE CLEAR ABOUT THAT. AND IF WE EVER ABANDON THOSE VALUES, WE WOULD NOT ONLY MAKE IT A LOT EASIER TO RADICALIZE PEOPLE HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD BUT WE WOULD HAVE BETRAYED THE VERY THINGS WE'RE TRYING TO PROTECT, THE PLURALISM AND THE OPENNESS, OUR RULE OF LAW, OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES, THE VERY THINGS THAT MAKE US GREAT, THE VERY THINGS THAT MAKE US EXCEPTIONAL, AND THEN THE TERRORIST WOULD HAVE WON. WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN. I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. TWO WEEKS AGO I WAS AT THE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY AT THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY, AND IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE INSPIRING TO SEE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE STEPPING UP DEDICATED TO SERVE AND PROTECT THIS COUNTRY. AND PART OF WHAT WAS INSPIRING WAS THE INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY OF THESE CADETS. WE SAW CADETS WHO ARE STRAIGHT APPLAUDING CLASSMATES WHO ARE OPENLY GAY.
WE SAW CADETS BORN HERE IN AMERICA APPLAUDING CLASSMATES WHO WERE IMMIGRANTS AND LOVED THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH THEY DECIDED THEY WANTED TO BE PART OF OUR ARMED FORCES. WE SAW CADETS AND FAMILIES OF ALL RELIGIONS APPLAUD CADETS WHO ARE PROUD, PATRIOTIC MUSLIM AMERICANS, SERVING THEIR COUNTRY IN UNIFORM, READY TO LAY THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE TO PROTECT YOU AND TO PROTECT ME. WE SAW MALE CADETS APPLAUDING FOR FEMALE CLASSMATES WHO CAN NOW SERVE IN COMBAT POSITIONS. THAT'S THE AMERICAN MILITARY. THAT'S AMERICA. ONE TEAM, ONE NATION. THOSE ARE THE VALUES ISIL IS TRYING TO DESTROY, AND WE SHOULDN'T HELP THEM DO IT. OUR DIVERSITY AND OUR RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER, OUR DRAWING ON THE TALENTS OF EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY, OUR MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE TREATING EVERYBODY FAIRLY, WE'RE NOT JUDGING PEOPLE ON THE BASIS OF WHAT FAITH THEY ARE OR WHAT RACE THEY ARE OR WHAT ETHNICITY THEY ARE OR WHAT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS, THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS COUNTRY GREAT. THAT'S THE SPIRIT WE SEE IN THAT'S THE THAT'S THE UNITY AND RESOLVE THAT WILL ALLOW US TO DEFEAT ISIL. THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT WILL PRESERVE OUR VALUES AND IDEALS THAT DEFINE US AS AMERICANS. THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO DEFEND THIS NATION, AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO DEFEND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
)I JUST MET WITH MY NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AS PART OF OUR REGULAR EFFORT TO REVIEW AND INTENSIFY OUR CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY THE TERROR GROUP ISIL. THE MEETING WAS PLANNED BEFORE THE TERRIBLE ATTACK IN IN ORLANDO BUT OBVIOUSLY THAT TRAGEDY, AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE SHAPED OUR WORK TODAY. IN ALL OF OUR EFFORTS FOREMOST IN OUR MINDS IS THE LOSS AND GRIEF OF THE PEOPLE OF ORLANDO, THOSE WHO DIED, THOSE WHO ARE STILL RECOVERING, THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR LOVED ONES HARMED, THE FRIENDS OF OURS WHO ARE LESBIAN AND GAY AND BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER WHO WERE I TARGETED. I WANT TO REMIND THEM THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND OUR ALLIES AND FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD STAND WITH YOU AND ARE THINKING ABOUT YOU AND ARE PRAYING FOR YOU.
AS DIRECTOR COMEY HAS SAID, WE CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION TO INDICATE THAT A FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUP DIRECTED THE ATTACK IN ORLANDO. IT IS INCREASINGLY CLEAR, HOWEVER, THAT THE KILLER TOOK IN EXTREMIST INFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA OVER THE INTERNET. HE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AN ANGRY, DISTURBED, UNSTABLE YOUNG MAN WHO BECAME RADICALIZED. AS WE KNOW ALL TOO WELL, TERRORIST GROUPS LIKE ISIL HAVE CALLED ON PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND HERE IN THE UNITED STATES TO ATTACK INNOCENT CIVILIANS. THEIR THEIR PROPAGANDA, THEIR VIDEOS, THEIR POSTINGS ARE PERVASIVE AND MORE EASILY ACCESSIBLE THAN WE THIS WANT. THIS INDIVIDUAL APPEARS TO HAVE ABSORBED SOME OF THAT. DURING HIS SHOOTING SPREE THE KILLER IN ORLANDO PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIL. AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, THESE LONE ACTORS OR SMALL CELLS OF TERRORISTS ARE VERY HARD TO PROTECT AND VERY HARD TO PREVENT. BUT BUT ACROSS OUR GOVERNMENT AT EVERY LEVEL, FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL, MILITARY AND CIVILIAN, WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO STOP THESE KINDS OF ATTACKS. WE WE WORK TO SUCCEED 100% OF THE AN TIME.
AN ATTACKER AS WE SAW IN ORLANDO ONLY HAS TO SUCCEED ONCE. OUR EXTRAORDINARY PERSONNEL, INTELLIGENCE, MILITARY, HOMELAND SECURITY, LAW ENFORCEMENT HAVE PREVENTED MANY ATTACKS AND SAVED MANY LIVES AND WE CAN NEVER THANK THEM ENOUGH. BUT WE ARE ALL SOBERED BY THE FACT THAT DESPITE THE EXTRAORDINARY HARD WORK, SOMETHING LIKE ORLANDO CAN IN OCCUR. IN OUR MEETING TODAY, DIRECTOR COMEY UPDATED US ON THE INVESTIGATION IN ORLANDO SECRETARY JOHNSON REVIEWED MEASURES WE CONTINUE TO TAKE ON BEHALF OF HOMELAND SECURITY, SECRETARY CARTER AND CHAIRMAN DUNFORD REVIEWED THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISIL. I WANT TO THANK SECRETARY AND HIS TEAM HERE AT TREASURY FOR HOSTING US AND FOR THEIR TIRELESS EFFORTS TO CUT OFF THE MONEY ISIL RELIES ON TO FUND ITS TERROR NETWORK.
AT THE OUTSET, I WANT TO REITERATE OUR OBJECTIVE IN THIS FI OUR MISSION OUR MISSION IS TO DESTROY ISIL. SINCE I LAST UPDATED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON OUR CAMPAIGN TWO MONTHS AGO, WE'VE SEEN THIS CONTINUES TO BE A DIFFICULT FIGHT BUT WE ARE MAKING SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS. OVER THE PAST TWO MONTHS I'VE AUTHORIZED A SERIES OF STEPS TO RATCHET UP OUR FIGHT AGAINST ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL U.S. PERSONNEL INCLUDING FORCES IN SYRIA TO ZEST LOCAL FORCES BATTLING ISIL THERE, ADDITIONAL ADVISERS TO WORK MORE CLOSELY WITH THE SECURITY FORCES AND ADDITIONAL ASSETS INCLUDING ATTACK HABITS AND ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR LOCAL FORCES IN NORTHERN IRAQ. OUR AIRCRAFT CONTINUED TO LAUNCH FROM USS HARRY TRUMAN NOW IN THE OUR MEDITERRANEAN. OUR B-52 BOMBERS ARE HITTING ISIL WITH PRECISION STRIKES. TARGETS ARE BEING IDENTIFIED AND HIT EVEN MORE QUICKLY. SO FAR 13,000 AIRSTRIKES. THIS CAMPAIGN AT THIS STAGE IS FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS. AS A RESULT ISIL IS UNDER MORE PRESSURE THAN EVER BEFORE. ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE KEY LEADERS. THIS THIS INCLUDES SALMAN, SENIOR MILITARY LEADER, AL SUDANI, LEADER IN ANBAR PROVINCE AND HERE THE TOP ISIL COMMANDER IN SO FALLUJAH. SO FAR WE'VE TAKEN OUT MORE THAN 120 ISIL LEADERS AND COMMANDERS AND OUR MESSAGE IS CLEAR. IF YOU TARGET AMERICA AND OUR ALLIES, YOU WILL NOT BE SAFE. YOU WILL NEVER BE SAFE. ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE GROUND IN IRAQ. IN THE PAST IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS WITH SUPPORT HAVE LIBERATED THE TOWN OF RUPA AND PUSHED UP EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEY LIBERATING TOWN OF HIT AND HADIFA. MEANWHILE IN THE NORTH IRAQI FORCES CONTINUE TO PUSH UP THE TIGRESS TIGRESS RIVER VALLEY. ALL TOLLED, ISIL HAS LOST MORE THAN HALF THE TERRITORY IT CONTROLLED IN IRAQ AND WILL LOSE MORE.
ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE GROUND IN SYRIA, A COALITION OF LOCAL FORCES IS PRESSURING A KEY TOWN, WHICH MEANS THE NOOSE IS TIGHTENING AROUND ISIL IN RAQQAH AS WELL. IN SHORT OUR COALITION CONTINUES TO BE ON OFFENSE, ISIL IS ON IT'S DEFENSE. IT'S BEEN A FULL YEAR SINCE ISIL HAS BEEN ABLE TO MOUNT A MAJOR SUCCESSFUL OPERATION IN EITHER SYRIA OR IRAQ. AS ISIL CONTINUES TO LOSE TERRITORY, IT ALSO LOSES MONEY THAT IS ITS LIFE BLOOD. AS A RESULT OF OUR STRIKES AGAINST ITS OIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPLY LINES, WE BELIEVE THAT WE'VE CUT ISIL'S REVENUE FROM OIL BY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER MONTH. IN DESTROYING STORAGE SITES WHERE THEY KEEP THEIR CASH, WE'VE DEPRIVED ISIL OF MILLIONS THANKS MORE. THANKS TO GREAT WORK OF SECRETARY LU AND MARIANNE OTHERS TODAY AND WORKING WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD ISIL IS CUT OFF FROM INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM. CUTTING OFF ISIL'S MONEY MAY NOT BE AS DRAMATIC AS MILITARY STRIKES BUT IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AND WE'RE SEEING RESULTS. ISIL'S ISIL'S CASH RESERVES ARE DOWN, IT'S HAD TO CUT SALARIES FOR IT'S FIGHTERS. IT'S RESORTING TO EXTORTION OF THOSE TRAPPED IN ITS GRIP AND BY ISIL'S ADMISSION SOME OF ITS LEADERS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT STEALING CASH AND GOLD. ONCE AGAIN ISIM'S TRUE NATURE HAS BEEN REVEALED. THIS IS NOT RELIGIOUS WARRIORS, THEY ARE THUGS AND THIEVES. IN CONTINUING TO PUSH ON THIS FRONT, I WANT TO MENTION IT IS CRITICAL FOR OUR FRIENDS IN THE SENATE TO CONFIRM MY NOMINEE FOR UNDER-SECRETARY OF TERRORISM AND I ADAM ADAM SERVED AND EVERYONE AGREES HE'S IMMINENTLY QUALIFIED HE'S BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS. IT'S 120 DAYS AND HE'S NOT BEEN GIVEN A FULL VOTE. THERE'S NO GOOD REASON FOR IT. IT'S INEXCUSABLE. IT'S TIME FOR SENATE TO DO OUR JOB, PUT NATIONAL SECURITY FIRST AND HAVE A VOTE ON ADAM WHO CAN LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIL AND HELP KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE.
ISIL'S RANKS ARE SHRINKING AS THEIR THEIR MORAL IS SINKING. AS ONE DEFECTOR SAID, ISIL IS NOT BRINGING ISLAM TO THE WORLD AND PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT. THANKS TO INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS, THE FLOW OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS, INCLUDING FROM AMERICA TO SYRIA AND IRAQ HAS PLUMMETED. IN FACT, OUR INTELLIGENCE FEELS RANKS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO LOWEST LEVELS IN MORE THAN TWO AND A HALF YEARS. EVEN AS WE CONTINUE TO DESTROY ISIL MILITARILY, WE'RE ADDRESSING LARGER FORCES THAT HAVE ALLOWED THESE TERRORIST TOSS GAIN TRACTION IN PARTS OF THE WORLD. WITH REGARD TO IRAQ, THIS MEANS HELPING IRAQUIS STABILIZE COMMUNITIES AND PROMOTE INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENTS SO ISIL CANNOT RETURN. WITH REGARD TO SYRIA, IT MEANS OUR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE FRAGILE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES THE CESSATION OF THERE. THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES HAS NOT STOPPED ALL OR EVEN MOST OF THE HARDSHIP ON THE SYRIAN PEOPLE, THE HARDSHIP ON AND THE CIVILIANS. AND THE ASSAD REGIME HAS BEEN THE PRINCIPLE CULPRIT IN VIOLATING HOSTILITIES. ISIL AND AL NUSRA, AL QAEDA'S AFFILIATE IN SYRIA ALSO CONTINUE TO TERRORIZE SYRIANS. BUT AS FRAGILE AND INCOMPLETE AS CESSATION IS, IT HAS SAVED LIVES AND HAS ALLOWED DELIVER OF SOME LIFESAVING AID TO SYRIANS WHO ARE IN DESPERATE NEED. AS DIFFICULT AS IT IS, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR A POLITICAL PROCESS THAT CAN END THE CIVIL WAR AND RESULT IN TRANSITION AWAY FROM ASSAD. BEYOND SYRIA AND IRAQ, ISIL IS ALSO LOSING GROUND IN LIBYA. FORCES OF LIBYAN UNITY GOVERNMENT GOING AFTER ISIL IN THEIR STRONGHOLD IN SIRT AND WILL CONTINUE TO ASSIST THE GOVERNMENT AS IT WORKS TO SECURE ITS COUNTRY. LASTLY, HERE AT HOME, IF WE WANT TO HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT PROTECT AGAINST HOME GROWN EXTREMISTS, THE KIND OF TRAGEDIES THAT OCCURRED AT SAN BERNARDINO AND NOW HAVE OCCURRED IN ORLANDO, THERE IS A MEANINGFUL WAY TO DO THAT. WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL AMERICANS TO GET THEIR HANDS ON WEAPONS OF WAR THAT LET THEM KILL DOZENS OF INNOCENTS.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE, WE CANNOT PREVENT EVERY TRAGEDY. WE KNOW THAT CONSISTENT WITH THE SECOND AMENDMENT, THERE ARE COMMON SENSE STEPS THAT COULD REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE AND COULD REDUCE THE LETHALITY OF SOMEBODY WHO INTENDS TO DO OTHER PEOPLE WE SHOULD HARM. WE SHOULD GIVE ATF RESOURCES THEY NEED TO ENFORCE THE GUN LAWS WE ALREADY HAVE. PEOPLE WITH POSSIBLE TIES TO TERRORISM WHO AREN'T ALLOWED ON A PLANE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO BUY A GUN. ENOUGH TALKING ABOUT BEING TOUGH ON TERRORISM. ACTUALLY BE TOUGH ON TERRORISM AND STOP MAKING IT EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR TERRORISTS TO BUY ASSAULT WEAPONS. REINSTATE THE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN. MAKE MAKE IT HARDER FOR TERRORISTS TO USE THESE WEAPONS TO KILL US. OTHERWISE, DESPITE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS ACROSS OUR GOVERNMENT BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, BY OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, BY OUR MILITARY, DESPITE ALL THE SACRIFICES FOLKS MAKE, THESE KINDS OF EVENTS ARE GOING TO KEEP ON HAPPENING. AND THE WEAPONS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET MORE POWERFUL.
LET ME MAKE A FINAL POINT. FOR A WHILE NOW, THE MAIN CONTRIBUTION OF SOME OF MY FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE HAVE MADE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIL IS TO CRITICIZE THIS ADMINISTRATION AND ME FOR NOT USING THE PHRASE "RADICAL THAT'S ISLAM." THAT'S THE KEY, THEY TELL US. WE CAN'T BEAT ISIL UNLESS WE CALL THEM RADICAL ISLAMISTS.
WHAT EXACTLY WOULD USING THIS LABEL ACCOMPLISH? WHAT EXACTLY WOULD IT CHANGE? WOULD IT MAKE ISIL LESS COMMITTED TO TRY AND KILL AMERICANS? WOULD IT WOULD IT BRING IN MORE ALLIES? IS THERE A MILITARY STRATEGY THAT IS SERVED BY THIS? THE ANSWER IS NONE OF THE ABOVE. CALLING A THREAT BY A DIFFERENT NAME DOES NOT MAKE IT GO AWAY.
THIS IS A POLITICAL DISTRACTION. SINCE BEFORE I WAS PRESIDENT, I'VE BEEN CLEAR ABOUT HOW EXTREMIST GROUPS HAVE PERVERTED ISLAM TO JUSTIFY TERRORISM. AS PRESIDENT I HAVE REPEATEDLY CALLED ON OUR MUSLIM FRIENDS AND ALLIES AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD TO WORK WITH US TO REJECT THIS TWISTED INTERPRETATION OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT THERE'S NOT THERE'S NOT BEEN A MOMENT IN MY 7 1/2 YEARS AS PRESIDENT WHERE WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO PURSUE A STRATEGY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T USE THE LABEL RADICAL ISLAM. NOT ONCE HAS AN ADVISER OF MINE SAID, MAN, IF WE REALLY USED THAT PHRASE, WE'RE GOING TO TURN THIS WHOLE THING AROUND. NOT ONCE.
SO IF SOMEONE SERIOUSLY THINKS THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHO WE'RE FIGHTING, IF FIGHTING, IF THERE'S ANYONE OUT THERE WHO THINKS WE'RE CONFUSED ABOUT WHO OUR ENEMIES ARE, THAT WOULD COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOUSANDS OF TERRORISTS WHO WE'VE TAKEN OFF THE BATTLEFIELD. IF THE IMPLICATION IS THAT THOSE OF US UP HERE AND THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE WORKING TO DEFEAT ISIL AREN'T TAKING THE FIGHT SERIOUSLY, THAT WOULD COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOSE WHO SPENT THE LAST 7 1/2 YEARS DISMANTLING AL QAEDA AND ALFATAH, FOR EXAMPLE, INCLUDING MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM WHO PUT THEIR LIVES AT RISK, SPECIAL FORCES I ORDERED TO GET BIN LADEN AND NOW ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. THEY KNOW FULL WELL WHO THE ENEMY IS. SO DO THE INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO SPEND COUNTLESS HOURS DISRUPTING PLOTS AND PROTECTING ALL AMERICANS INCLUDING POLITICIANS WHO TWEET AND APPEAR ON CABLE NEWS SHOWS. THEY KNOW WHO THE NATURE OF THE ENEMY IS. SO THERE'S NO MAGIC TO THE PHRASE RADICAL ISLAM. IT'S A POLITICAL TALKING POINT. IT'S NOT A STRATEGY.
THE REASON I AM CAREFUL ABOUT HOW I DESCRIBE THIS THREAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH ACTUALLY DEFEATING GROUPS GROUPS LIKE ISIL AND AL QAEDA WANT TO MAKE THIS WAR A WAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND AMERICA, OR BETWEEN ISLAM AND THE WEST. THEY WANT TO CLAIM THAT THEY ARE? THE TRUE LEADERS OF OVER A BILLION MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD WHO REJECT THEIR CRAZY NOTIONS. THEY WANT US TO VALIDATE THEM BY IMPLYING THEY SPEAK FOR THOSE BILLION PLUS PEOPLE, THAT THEY SPEAK FOR ISLAM. THAT'S THEIR PROPAGANDA. THAT'S HOW THEY RECRUIT. IF WE FALL INTO THE TRAP OF PAINTING ALL MUSLIMS WITH A BROAD BRUSH AND COMPLY WE ARE AT WAR WITH AN ENTIRE RELIGION, THEN WE ARE DOING THE TERRORISTS WORK FOR THEM. UP UNTIL THIS POINT THIS ARGUMENT ABOUT LABELS HAS MOSTLY JUST BEEN PARTISAN RHETORIC. SADLY WE'VE ALL BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO THAT KIND OF PARTISANSHIP. EVEN EVEN WHEN IT INVOLVES THE FIGHT AGAINST THESE EXTREMIST GROUPS.
THAT KIND OF YAPPIN' HAS NOT PREVENTED FOLKS ACROSS GOVERNMENT FROM DOING THEIR JOBS, FROM SACRIFICING AND WORKING REALLY HARD TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. BUT WE ARE NOW SEEING HOW DANGEROUS THIS KIND OF MIND-SET AND THIS KIND OF THINKING CAN WE'RE WE'RE STARTING TO SEE WHERE THIS KIND OF RHETORIC AND LOOSE TALK AND SLOPPINESS ABOUT WHO EXACTLY WE'RE FIGHTING, WHERE THIS CAN LEAD US. WE NOW HAVE PROPOSALS FROM THE PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BAR ALL MUSLIMS FROM EMIGRATING TO AMERICA. YOU HEAR LANGUAGE THAT SINGLES OUT IMMIGRANTS AND SUGGESTS ENTIRE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ARE COMPLICIT IN VIOLENCE. WHERE DOES THIS STOP? THE ORLANDO KILLER, ONE OF THE SAN BERNARDINO KILLERS, THE FT. HOOD KILLER, THEY WERE ALL U.S. CITIZENS.
ARE ARE WE GOING TO START TREATING ALL MUSLIM AMERICANS DIFFERENTLY? ARE ARE WE GOING TO START SUBJECTING THEM TO SPECIAL SURVEILLANCE? ARE WE GOING TO START DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH SOME WE'VE HEARD THESE SUGGESTIONS DURING THE COURSE OF THIS DO CAMPAIGN. DO REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS ACTUALLY AGREE WITH THIS? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE AMERICA WE WANT. IT DOESN'T REFLECT OUR DEMOCRATIC IDEALS. IT WON'T MAKE US MORE SAFE, IT WILL MAKE US LESS SAFE FUELING ISIL'S NOTION AMERICA HATES MUSLIMS, MAKING YOUNG MUSLIMS IN THIS COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD FEEL LIKE NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO, THEY ARE GOING TO BE UNDER SUSPICION AND UNDER ATTACK ATTACK. IT IT MAKES MUSLIM AMERICANS FEEL LIKE THEIR GOVERNMENT IS BETRAYING THEM. IT BETRAYS THE VERY VALUES AMERICA STANDS FOR. WE'VE GONE THROUGH MOMENTS IN OUR HISTORY BEFORE WHEN WE ACTED OUT OF FEAR AND WE CAME TO REGRET IT. WE'VE SEEN OUR GOVERNMENT MISTREAT OUR FELLOW CITIZENS, AND IT'S BEEN A SHAMEFUL PART OF OUR HISTORY.
THIS IS A COUNTRY FOUNDED ON BASIC FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF RELIGION. WE DON'T HAVE RELIGIOUS TESTS OUR HERE. OUR FOUNDERS, OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS ARE CLEAR ABOUT THAT. AND IF WE EVER ABANDON THOSE VALUES, WE WOULD NOT ONLY MAKE IT A LOT EASIER TO RADICALIZE PEOPLE HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD BUT WE WOULD HAVE BETRAYED THE VERY THINGS WE'RE TRYING TO PROTECT, THE PLURALISM AND THE OPENNESS, OUR RULE OF LAW, OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES, THE VERY THINGS THAT MAKE US GREAT, THE VERY THINGS THAT MAKE US EXCEPTIONAL, AND THEN THE TERRORIST WOULD HAVE WON. WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN. I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. TWO WEEKS AGO I WAS AT THE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY AT THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY, AND IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE INSPIRING TO SEE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE STEPPING UP DEDICATED TO SERVE AND PROTECT THIS COUNTRY. AND PART OF WHAT WAS INSPIRING WAS THE INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY OF THESE CADETS. WE SAW CADETS WHO ARE STRAIGHT APPLAUDING CLASSMATES WHO ARE OPENLY GAY.
WE SAW CADETS BORN HERE IN AMERICA APPLAUDING CLASSMATES WHO WERE IMMIGRANTS AND LOVED THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH THEY DECIDED THEY WANTED TO BE PART OF OUR ARMED FORCES. WE SAW CADETS AND FAMILIES OF ALL RELIGIONS APPLAUD CADETS WHO ARE PROUD, PATRIOTIC MUSLIM AMERICANS, SERVING THEIR COUNTRY IN UNIFORM, READY TO LAY THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE TO PROTECT YOU AND TO PROTECT ME. WE SAW MALE CADETS APPLAUDING FOR FEMALE CLASSMATES WHO CAN NOW SERVE IN COMBAT POSITIONS. THAT'S THE AMERICAN MILITARY. THAT'S AMERICA. ONE TEAM, ONE NATION. THOSE ARE THE VALUES ISIL IS TRYING TO DESTROY, AND WE SHOULDN'T HELP THEM DO IT. OUR DIVERSITY AND OUR RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER, OUR DRAWING ON THE TALENTS OF EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY, OUR MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE TREATING EVERYBODY FAIRLY, WE'RE NOT JUDGING PEOPLE ON THE BASIS OF WHAT FAITH THEY ARE OR WHAT RACE THEY ARE OR WHAT ETHNICITY THEY ARE OR WHAT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS, THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS COUNTRY GREAT. THAT'S THE SPIRIT WE SEE IN THAT'S THE THAT'S THE UNITY AND RESOLVE THAT WILL ALLOW US TO DEFEAT ISIL. THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT WILL PRESERVE OUR VALUES AND IDEALS THAT DEFINE US AS AMERICANS. THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO DEFEND THIS NATION, AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO DEFEND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
uke1:He has never been qualified to be Commander In Chief.
It was an unveiling of something we had not seen in the President before. He showed no empathy or feelings for Americans , for the victims,its always about we can't be mean to the other guy.
There killing us, but he is saying take our guns away.
What next outlaw pressure cookers.
He is almost normalising the atrocity that happened.
It was an unveiling of something we had not seen in the President before. He showed no empathy or feelings for Americans , for the victims,its always about we can't be mean to the other guy.
There killing us, but he is saying take our guns away.
What next outlaw pressure cookers.
He is almost normalising the atrocity that happened.
No offense Vit. You pack devastating KO power and have landed haymaker after haymaker on these idiots. But what Obama just did to Drumpf was worse than any beat down you've ever given any of these clowns. And this was just him arriving at the arena. He hasn't even warmed up yet. Not only are Drumpf's teefus gone, he doesn't even remember that he ever had any.
