Full Transcript of Obama Address – IOTW Report

Full Transcript of Obama Address

Sunday, 6 December 2015, 20:57 BFH Uncategorized 48

(Obama is asking congress to pass a law that says anyone on a no-fly list will be prevented from having a gun. If congress does this, be prepared to see the no-fly list balloon by 100,000%.)

OBAMA: Good evening. On Wednesday, 14 Americans were killed as they came together to celebrate the holidays. They were taken from family and friends who loved them deeply. They were white and black, Latino and Asian, immigrants, and American born, moms and dads, daughters and sons. Each of them served their fellow citizens. All of them were part of our American family.

Tonight I want to talk with you about this tragedy, the broader threat of terrorism and how we can keep our country safe. The FBI is still gathering the facts about what happened in San Bernardino, but here’s what we know. The victims were brutally murdered and injured by one of their co-workers and his wife. So far, we have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home. But it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization, embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam that calls for war against America and the West. They had stockpiled assault weapons, ammunition, and pipe bombs.

So this was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people. Our nation has been at war with terrorists since Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11. In the process, we’ve hardened our defenses, from airports, to financial centers, to other critical infrastructure. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies have disrupted countless plots here and overseas and worked around the clock to keep us safe.

Our military and counterterrorism professionals have relentlessly pursued terrorist networks overseas, disrupting safe havens in several different countries, killing Osama Bin Laden, and decimating Al Qaeda’s leadership.

Over the last few years, however, the terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase. As we’ve become better at preventing complex multifaceted attacks like 9/11, terrorists turn to less complicated acts of violence like the mass shootings that are all too common in our society. It is this type of attack that we saw at Fort Hood in 2009, in Chattanooga earlier this year, and now in San Bernardino.

And as groups like ISIL grew stronger amidst the chaos of war in Iraq and then Syria, and as the Internet erases the distance between countries, we see growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds of people like the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino killers.

For seven years, I’ve confronted this evolving threat each and every morning in my intelligence briefing, and since the day I took this office, I have authorized U.S. forces to take out terrorists abroad precisely because I know how real the danger is.

As commander in chief, I have no greater responsibility than the security of the American people.

As a father to two young daughters who are the most precious part of my life, I know that we see ourselves with friends and co-workers at a holiday party like the one in San Bernardino. I know we see our kids in the faces of the young people killed in Paris.

And I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure.

Well, here’s what I want you to know. The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us. Our success won’t depend on tough talk, or abandoning our values or giving into fear. That’s what groups like ISIL are hoping for. Instead, we will prevail by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless. And by drawing upon every aspect of American power.

Here’s how. First, our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. In Iraq and Syria, air strikes are taking out ISIL leaders, heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure.

And since attacks in Paris, our closest allies, including France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, have ramped up their contributions to our military campaign which will help us accelerate our effort to destroy ISIL.

Second, we will continue to provide training and equipment to tens of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian forces fighting ISIL on the ground so that we take away their safe havens.

In both countries, we’re deploying special operations forces who can accelerate that offensive. We’ve stepped up this effort since the attacks in Paris, and will continue to invest more in approaches that are working on the ground.

Third, we’re working with friends and allies to stop ISIL’s operations, to disrupt plots, cut off their financing, and prevent them from recruiting more fighters.

Since the attacks in Paris, we’ve surged merged intelligence sharing with our European allies. We’re working with Turkey to seal its border with Syria, and we are cooperating with Muslim majority countries, and with our Muslim communities here at home, to counter the vicious ideology that ISIL promotes online.

Fourth, with American leadership, the international community has begun to establish a process and timeline to pursue cease-fires and a political resolution to the Syrian war.

Doing so will allow the Syrian people and every country, including our allies, but also countries like Russia, to focus on the common goal of destroying ISIL, a group that threatens us all.

This is our strategy to destroy ISIL. It is designed and supported by our military commanders and counterterrorism experts, together with 65 countries that have joined an American-led coalition. And we constantly examine our strategy to determine when additional steps are needed to get the job done.

That’s why I’ve ordered the Departments of State and Homeland Security to review the visa waiver program under which the female terrorist in San Bernardino originally came to this country. And that’s why I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice.

Now, here at home, we have to work together to address the challenge. There are several steps that Congress should take right away. To begin with, Congress should act to make sure no one on a no- fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semiautomatic weapon? This is a matter of national security.

We also need to make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons, like the ones that were used in San Bernardino. I know there are some who reject any gun-safety measures, but the fact is that our intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, no matter how effective they are, cannot identify every would-be mass shooter, whether that individual was motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology.

What we can do, and must do, is make it harder for them to kill.

Next, we should put in place stronger screening for those who come to America without a visa so that we can take a hard look at whether they’ve traveled to war zones. And we’re working with members of both parties in Congress to do exactly that.

Finally, if Congress believes, as I do, that we are at war with ISIL, it should go ahead and vote to authorize the continued use of military force against these terrorists.

For over a year, I have ordered our military to take thousands of air strikes against ISIL targets. I think it’s time for Congress to vote to demonstrate that the American people are united and committed to this fight.

My fellow Americans, these are the steps that we can take together to defeat the terrorist threat.

Let me now say a word about what we should not do. We should not be drawn once more into a long and costly ground war in Iraq or Syria. That’s what groups like ISIL want. They know they can’t defeat us on the battlefield. ISIL fighters were part of the insurgency that we faced in Iraq. But they also know that if we occupy foreign lands, they can maintain insurgencies for years, killing thousands of our troops and draining our resources, and using our presence to draw new recruits.

The strategy that we are using now — air strikes, special forces, and working with local forces who are fighting to regain control of their own country — that is how we’ll achieve a more sustainable victory, and it won’t require us sending a new generation of Americans overseas to fight and die for another decade on foreign soil.

Here’s what else we cannot do. We cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam. That, too, is what groups like ISIL want.

ISIL does not speak for Islam. They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death. And they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion Muslims around the world, including millions of patriotic Muslim-Americans who reject their hateful ideology.

Moreover, the vast majority of terrorist victims around the world are Muslim.

If we’re to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate.

That does not mean denying the fact that an extremist ideology has spread within some Muslim communities. It’s a real problem that Muslims must confront without excuse.

Muslim leaders here and around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and Al Qaeda promote, to speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

But just as it is the responsibility of Muslims around the world to root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization, it is the responsibility of all Americans, of every faith, to reject discrimination. It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country. It’s our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim-Americans should somehow be treated differently. Because when we travel down that road, we lose. That kind of divisiveness, that betrayal of our values plays into the hands of groups like ISIL.

Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co- workers, our sports heroes. And, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that.

My fellow Americans, I am confident we will succeed in this mission because we are on the right side of history. We were founded upon a belief in human dignity that no matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like or what religion you practice, you are equal in the eyes of God and equal in the eyes of the law. Even in this political season, even as we properly debate what steps I and future presidents must take to keep our country safe. Let’s make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional. Let’s not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear. That we have always met challenges, whether war or depression, natural disasters or terrorist attacks, by coming together around our common ideals as one nation and one people.

So long as we stay true to that tradition, I have no doubt that America will prevail.

Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

48 Comments on Full Transcript of Obama Address

  3. “America will prevail (as long as white boys cling to outdated notions of chivalry and scurry back to thankless 45 year careers at any mention of the phrase ‘Man Up’ and keep doing everything while every other demographic else parties on their dime.)”

  4. My be is most of the gun stores are already cleaned out of merchandise. LOL

    I’m trying to compare the new Glock with the Shield and some stores by me are out of the Shield.

    I am wondering if o is getting commissions.

  7. True, he left that one out, but he got this canard right up front…

    “…terrorists turn to less complicated acts of violence like the mass shootings that are all too common in our society…”

  9. Wait, did he just recategorize the Ft. Hood terrorist massacre? Didn’t he originally declare that it was “workplace violence”?!

    “Muslim-Americans are our friends….” Um, no they are not. That speech is SO full of taqiyyacrap!

  10. “For seven years, I’ve confronted this evolving threat each and every morning in my intelligence briefing”

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhhaaaa…….

  15. gee….he only used “I”, “me”, “my”, “mine” less than 30 times …… this may be a new record for a group of 1k words uttered by The Musloid In Chief

  17. BHO is delusional and it is time he is removed from office under the articles of impeachment. When is enough, enough? He is willing to spill your blood and that of your family and friends for his PC bullshit. This POtuS is a shit stain.

  19. As soon as Obama went off the air, he was immediately breast-fed by Valerie Jarrett.

    Reminds of that graphic BigFurHat made of George Clooney breastfeeding Obama. LOL!

  22. morning is 11am SHARP. Unless golf, then 4pm SHARP. Unless tamales with the girls, then double down tomorrow. Intelligence gets better with age… he learned that from Joe.

  23. i am impressed that so many of you can watch this loon

    i tuned out long ago, find it too tortuous, almost like having to listen to some asshole defend himself for raping my sister or something

    what a shithead, i absolutely hate this guy, voted in twice by the growing population of moronic zombies

    it’s hard to believe that the vacuous, vapid degenerate hillary is a true threat in 2016

  25. I will not give up my guns. You will have to try to take them.

    One of us will die.

    I will not give up combat-capable rifles, their standard-capacity, 30-round magazines, nor any kind of ammunition that I see fit to run through these guns. I will not give up my combat-capable shotgun, designed to kill a human being the first time, every time with one well-aimed blast of plated buckshot. I will not give up my high-capacity semi-automatic pistols that I can hide under almost any kind of clothing without a hint that I’m armed at all, nor will I give up the hollowpoint ammunition that fills them. You will not take my long-range precision rifle, with which I control anything within a half-mile of my position.

    I am one of 100 million armed American citizens, trained in the use of small arms by military and police trainers who want citizens to be armed against an increasingly tyrannical government.

    We are free, and we will not submit to you.

    –Bob Owens

  26. I refuse to watch 0bama and I sure as hell wont read his transcript.

    It’s all BS. I don’t need that jackass to tell me not to be afraid.
    I’m not afraid and he is still an idiot.
    His feckless leadership is responsible for this chaos.
    All of these Americans killed by ISIS (not ISIL) are because of him.

  29. “terrorists turn to less complicated acts of violence like the mass shootings that are all too common in our society. It is this type of attack that we saw at Fort Hood in 2009”

    Whoa! Did Obama finally admit that the Fort Hood attacks were terrorism? I thought it was workplace violence. Oh no. This is worse than we thought! /s/

  32. FTAS – “Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun.”
    [FTAS = From The Asshole’s Speech]

    The same ‘no-fly’ list that people are secretly placed on – without the due process of law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution – stripping them of their right to travel, with no legal recourse?

    Of course he wants to do this to our second amendment rights. I do not find this surprising.

    Next, he will want a no-free-speech list to put people on, to ban “hate speech,” – “hate speech” being the truth and whatever else he says it is, of course.

  34. Weak as water. Queue President Lazlo,,go.

    My fellow Americans, we have terrorists in our midst and abroad who want to kill us. Eliminating this threat will take two seperate strategies.
    Abroad: I have instructed the Commander of the United States Marine Corps that ISIS is a bug that I want stomped on yesterday.
    Take off the gloves.
    At Home: All immigration is stopped until all visas have been gone over with a fine tooth comb.
    Today we launch:The American Marksman Program. Any American citizen who passes a background check and completes a 12 week part time course coupled with a pledge of community service and further education, will be issued a firearm.
    All mosques and other houses of worship will be monitored and entities promoting violence will be shut down and the property confiscated and sold.
    All Illegal aliens caught will be conscripted into construction crews on either the North or South walls.

  40. I checked with my Doc. He said you’re safe because it’s got a thick enough coating of B.S. on it…. Only down side is, you’ll smell like a bovine. Could be worse. 😉

  42. The comments garnered more thumbs up from me than any previous IOTW post I’ve ever read.

    The outright lies, cover ups, distortions, exaggerations of things Obama claims he has done to confront Muslim terrorism, in this address were all quite amazing. It’s sad but true that many sheeple will believe the lies.

    The only thing positive in the whole address, which was difficult to read, was he slipped up about Fort Hood and accidentally admitted he knows it was a terrorist attack. Just like he slipped up and confessed to his moslem faith during the George Stephanopoulos interview.

  43. I just read this morning that there were around 72 DHS employees on the no fly list. So, if that means disarming the commie bastards trying to take away my rights, fine. If it means taking away my rights then fuck you Mr. President!

  44. For those of you who don’t want to read the full speech, I’ll give you the cliff notes. BS, BS, BS, BS, bad republicans, BS, BS musloims are cool. you people are too stupid to understand the nuances of my brilliance, BS, guns, guns Have to go party with the smart people in Hollywood.

  48. The bastard did get part of one thing right: “part of a cult of death”. But the cult he failed to mention is islam.

    I have yet to see one of these:
    “patriotic Muslim-Americans who reject their hateful ideology.”
    They would have to denounce islam, so the muslim-American part is pure bullshit. The “hateful ideology” of all forms of islam is a hard fact. I think he slipped up and hit the taqiyya foot switch for the teleprompter a few too many times.

    Go to hell soon, Barry.

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