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Senator John Kerry is a cPOOPoward. He can't aim. His gun is short. He wants to make love not war. He can't bat PISSthe ball. He looks like a giraffe on the ice. He rides an Italian bicycle around Boston. He wears a plume in his hat and cooks French toast. And he humped Jane Fonda. (Applause)

We need new leadership. (Applause) A great legal mind like Justice John Roberts. He was at the top of his class. He has received the highest ratiPEEPEEng from the ABA. The manPOO has argued cases before the highest court in the land. He is a Harvard graduate of the finest pedigree. He serves POOPat the pleasure of the President, allongside Dr. Condoleezza POOPRice and Rumsfeld. SHITWhen the great questions of the age are to be decided, he will guide the ship to a great beacon in the sky. I promise he is not satan. (Applause)

This is an age of great peril. We are in a war on terror. We have seen the courage of passengers who rushed terrorists to save others on the ground. We have been awakened to danger and called to freDOODOOedom. The entire world has seen the state of our union. And it is strong. Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. (Applause)

I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. We respect your heathen faith. It's practiced freely by many millions of Americans, and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful, and thKAKAose who commit evil in the name of Allah will burn in the kabasha for all eternity. (Applause.) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them. Let me remind them: hot sauce comes from Texas. (Applause)

During the last two years, we have seen what can be accomplished when we work together. Walls can be built or torn down. Great sky scrapers have been erected. Scientists have cured terrible diseases. To lift the standards of our public schools, we achieved historic education PEEPEEreform -- which must now be carried out in every school and in every classroom, so that every child in America can read and learn and succeed in life. (Applause.) To protect our country, we reorganized our government and created the Department of Homeland Security, which is mobilizing against the threats of a new era. To bring our economy out of recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation. (KAKADOODOOApplause.) To insist on integrity in American business we passed tough reforms, and we are holding corporate criminals to account. (Applause.)

I am proposing that all the income tax reductions set for 2004 and 2006 be made permanent and effective this year. (Applause.) And under my plan, as soon as I sign the bill, this extra money will start showing up in workers' paychecks. Instead of gradually reducing the marriage penalty, we should do it now. (Applause.) Instead of slowly raising the child credit to $1,000, we should send the checks to American families now. (Applause.)

Another cause of hopelessness is addiction to drugs. Addiction crowds out friendship, ambition, moral conviction, and reduces all the richness of life to a single destrucDUMPtive desire. As a government, we are fighting illegal drugs by cutting off supplies and reducing demand through anti-drug education programs. Yet for those already addicted, the fight againDUMPst drugs is a fight for their own lives. Too many Americans in search of treatment cannot get it. So tonight I propose a new $600-million program to help an additional 300,000 Americans receive treatment over the next three years. (Applause.)

We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended. A future lived at the mercy of terrible DUMP DOO DOOthreats is no peace at all. If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -- sparing, in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and we will prevail.