George W. Bush
SOT, Flight Tapes American Airlines Flight 11 :
SOT，飞行磁带 美国航空 11 号航班：
Betty Ong (Flight Attendant): : The cockpit’s not answering.
Betty Ong（空姐）：：驾驶舱没有回应。
Somebody’s stabbed in business class, and um I think there is Mace that we can’t breathe.
有人在商务舱被刺伤，嗯，我认为有梅斯让我们无法呼吸。
I don’t know, I think we’re getting hijacked.
我不知道，我想我们被劫持了。
Mohammed Atta: : Nobody move, everything will be O.K.
Mohammed Atta：：没人动，一切都会好起来的。
If you try to make any moves, you will injure yourself and the airplane.
如果您尝试采取任何行动，您就会伤害自己和飞机。
Just stay quiet.
保持安静。
Boston TMU: : We have a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New — New York.
波士顿 TMU：：我们这里遇到了问题，我们有一架被劫持的飞机飞往纽约。
Boston TMU: : No, this is not an exercise, not a test.
Boston TMU： ：不，这不是练习，也不是测试。
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary: : September 11 unfolded from clear blue skies, perfect cool weather in Florida.
新闻秘书阿里·弗莱舍 (Ari Fleischer)： 9 月 11 日，佛罗里达州晴空万里，天气凉爽。
The President went for an early-morning jog.
总统早上去慢跑了。
Interviewer: : Four and a half miles?
采访者：：四英里半？
Bush : I think so.
布什：我想是的。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefe: r: I went down to get into the President’s motorcade, and it was on the ride from the hotel to the elementary school that the first plane hit.
迈克尔·莫雷尔 (Michael Morell)，《中央情报局总统每日简报》： r：我下楼准备进入总统的车队，就在从酒店到小学的途中，第一架飞机撞上了。
I remember Ari turning around in the van and saying, Michael, do you know anything about a plane hitting the World Trade Center?
我记得阿里在货车里转身说，迈克尔，你知道飞机撞上世贸中心的事吗？
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: : We were just pulling up to the school when the first tower had been hit, and he had a quizzical look on his face.
丹·巴特利特（Dan Bartlett），白宫通讯主任：：我们正把车开到学校，第一座塔就被击中了，他脸上带着疑惑的表情。
Was it bad weather?
天气不好吗？
You know, he was a pilot, it didn’t make sense.
你知道，他是一名飞行员，这没有道理。
Narrator: : While President Bush sat in the Emma Booker elementary school classroom in Sarasota, Florida, his staff was scrambling for information.
旁白：当布什总统坐在佛罗里达州萨拉索塔艾玛·布克小学的教室里时，他的工作人员正在争先恐后地获取信息。
At just after 9am, Chief of Staff Andy Card interrupted the reading.
上午9点刚过，参谋长安迪·卡德打断了朗读。
Andy Card, Chief of Staff: The teacher told the students to take out their books, and I whispered into his right ear: “A second plane hit the second tower.
安迪·卡德，参谋长：老师让学生们把书拿出来，我在他的右耳边低声说：“第二架飞机撞上了第二座塔。
America is under attack.”
美国正受到攻击。”
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary: So I wrote on the back of a yellow legal pad “don't say anything yet.” I put my back to the press corps and I flashed the card to the President.
阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer），新闻秘书：所以我在黄色便笺簿的背面写下“现在什么也别说”。我背对着记者团，并向总统出示了卡片。
He made one of those little nods like that.
他像这样轻轻地点了点头。
Male Speaker: : Thank you press, can you step out the door we came in please?
男发言者：：谢谢记者，您能走出我们进来的门吗？
Press: Mr President, are aware of the reports of the plane crash in New York?
记者：主席先生，您是否了解纽约坠机事件的报道？
Bush: We’ll talk about it later.
布什：我们稍后再讨论。
Male Speaker: Thank you all, if you could step out the door we came in.
男发言者：谢谢大家，如果你们能走出我们进来的门。
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary: : And then we got the press out of the room where the reading was being done, assembled in the holding room.
新闻秘书阿里·弗莱舍 (Ari Fleischer)：：然后我们让媒体离开了宣读室，并聚集在等候室。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: : Immediately we have what is commonly called the fog of war.
丹·巴特利特（Dan Bartlett），白宫通讯主任：我们立刻就看到了通常所说的战争迷雾。
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary: : As the President’s on a secure phone, the rest of us are working our phones, trying to figure out what we can figure out, starting to work on a statement for the President to deliver.
新闻秘书阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer）：当总统使用安全电话时，我们其他人都在操作我们的电话，试图弄清楚我们能弄清楚什么，并开始起草一份供总统发表的声明。
It was controlled chaos in that room, and it was information gathering under immense, immense pressure.
那个房间里的混乱是受控制的，是在巨大、巨大的压力下收集信息的。
SOT, Caller: I saw a large plane like a jet go immediately headed directly into the World Trade Center.
SOT，呼叫者：我看到一架像喷气式飞机一样的大型飞机立即直冲世贸中心。
It – it just flew into it, into the – into the other tower, coming from South to North.
它——它刚刚飞进了里面，飞进了——飞进了另一座塔，从南到北。
I watched the plane fly into the World Trade Center.
我看着飞机飞进世贸中心。
News SOT: We’re just getting initial reports of that, and again, we must tell you that we’re trying to get as much information but it is trickling in.
新闻 SOT：我们刚刚收到有关此事的初步报告，我们必须再次告诉您，我们正在努力获取尽可能多的信息，但信息正在慢慢流入。
Narrator: After a brief televised address, Bush and his entourage sped toward the Sarasota airport.
旁白：在简短的电视讲话后，布什和他的随行人员疾驰前往萨拉索塔机场。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: : Normally a motorcade goes like 40 miles an hour.
Karl Rove，高级顾问： ：通常车队的行驶速度约为每小时 40 英里。
We got on the highway, and we were doing 85 miles an hour.
我们上了高速公路，时速是 85 英里。
Little was said.
很少有人说。
Narrator: In the car, Bush learned a third plane had been hijacked, and flown into the Pentagon.
旁白：在车上，布什得知第三架飞机被劫持，并飞入五角大楼。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: The phone rang and the President picked it up and began talking.
卡尔·罗夫，高级顾问：电话响了，总统接起电话并开始讲话。
I could only hear one side of the conversation, but I knew it was bad when he said, “is Rumsfeld alive?”
我只能听到谈话的一方面，但当他说“拉姆斯菲尔德还活着吗？”时我知道情况很糟糕。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily Cia Briefer: We got back to the airport and I remember seeing Air Force One ringed by secret service agents with automatic weapons visible.
迈克尔·莫雷尔（Michael Morell），《中央情报局总统日报简报》：我们回到机场，我记得看到空军一号被特勤人员包围，他们身上可以看到自动武器。
And I had never seen that before.
我以前从未见过这种情况。
I remember getting on the plane and I remember the plane taking off much more rapidly than it usually took off and ascending at a very steep angle.
我记得登上飞机时，飞机的起飞速度比平时起飞的速度要快得多，并且以非常陡的角度上升。
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary: The President wanted to get back to Washington, he thought it was important for the nation to see the President back in Washington.
阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer），新闻秘书：总统想要回到华盛顿，他认为看到总统回到华盛顿对国家来说很重要。
At the same time, it was the last thing the secret service would ever want to happen.
与此同时，这是特勤局最不希望发生的事情。
Richard Clarke, Counter-Terrorism Coordinator : We did not want to bring the President back into what, frankly, was a war zone.
理查德·克拉克，反恐协调员：坦率地说，我们不想让总统回到战区。
There were F-15s circling the White House, armored vehicles, like tanks.
有F-15在白宫上空盘旋，有装甲车，就像坦克一样。
The Pentagon had blown up.
五角大楼被炸毁了。
Most of the city had been evacuated.
该市大部分地区已被疏散。
We didn't know what was yet to happen.
我们不知道接下来会发生什么。
The White House might be a target for such an airplane attack.
白宫可能成为此类飞机袭击的目标。
Narrator: : In the President’s absence from Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney assumed operational control of the federal government from a secret bunker under the White House, where he was patched through to Air Force One.
旁白：：总统不在华盛顿期间，副总统迪克·切尼在白宫下的一个秘密掩体中接管了联邦政府的运营控制权，并在那里与空军一号进行了接驳。
Josh Bolten, Chief of Staff: There were several occasions when the Vice President was talking to the President and they got cut off.
幕僚长乔什·博尔滕：有好几次副总统与总统谈话时都被打断了。
The communications were frustratingly primitive.
通讯方式简陋得令人沮丧。
Narrator: Straining to hear each other, Bush and Cheney discussed what to do with planes still in the air, some of which were not communicating with ground control.
旁白：布什和切尼竭尽全力听对方说话，讨论如何处理仍在空中的飞机，其中一些飞机无法与地面控制进行通信。
Bush directed Cheney to ground every flight in US airspace.
布什指示切尼停飞美国领空的所有航班。
Josh Bolten, Chief of Staff: United Flight 93 was not responding to communications and was now headed toward Washington, DC.
参谋长乔什·博尔滕 (Josh Bolten)：美联航 93 号航班没有对通讯做出回应，目前正飞往华盛顿特区。
Narrator: After consulting with Cheney, Bush authorized fighter jets to shoot down United Flight 93.
旁白：在与切尼协商后，布什授权战斗机击落联合航空93号航班。
Josh Bolten, Chief of Staff: It was quiet around the table because everybody appreciated the gravity of that moment.
乔什·博尔滕（Josh Bolten），参谋长：桌子周围很安静，因为每个人都意识到那一刻的严肃性。
We were dispatching the US military to shoot down a civilian aircraft loaded with innocent Americans.
我们正在派遣美军击落一架载有无辜美国人的民用飞机。
SOT, Mission Crew Commander 9/11 Recordings: Pilot: The region commander has declared that we can shoot down aircrafts that do not respond to our directions.
SOT，任务机组指挥官 9/11 录音： 飞行员：地区指挥官宣布我们可以击落不听从我们指示的飞机。
Copy that?
复制那个？
Copy that.
复制那个。
The Vice President has cleared .
副总统已清除。
Josh Bolten, Chief Of Staff: We didn’t hear anything about what happened to it for some time until eventually, we heard that as it turned out it was a bunch of brave American civilians who brought that plane down on their own.
乔希·博尔滕，参谋长：有一段时间我们没有听到任何关于飞机发生了什么的消息，直到最后，我们听说是一群勇敢的美国平民自己击落了那架飞机。
Narrator: Although the President insisted on returning to Washington, the Secret Service remained adamant that it was not yet safe.
旁白：尽管总统坚持要返回华盛顿，但特勤局仍然坚持认为华盛顿尚不安全。
After a brief stop to refuel in Louisiana, Air Force One, flying at 45,000 feet and zig-zagging to avoid a possible missile attack, headed for Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.
在路易斯安那州短暂停留加油后，空军一号在 45,000 英尺高空飞行，呈之字形飞行以避免可能的导弹袭击，飞往内布拉斯加州奥马哈的奥法特空军基地。
Richard Clarke, Counter-Terrorism Coordinator: : We put him in one of the most secure places we could, the headquarters of strategic command.
理查德·克拉克（Richard Clarke），反恐协调员：：我们把他安置在我们能做到的最安全的地方之一，即战略指挥部总部。
We had a video set up so that we could talk to him, and we could see him walking into the bunker.
我们设置了一段视频，以便我们可以与他交谈，并且可以看到他走进掩体。
He looked very determined, he sat down, and before anybody could say anything, he looked at us, up on the TV screens and said, “I am coming back to Washington.
他看起来非常坚定，他坐下来，在任何人开口说话之前，他看着电视屏幕上的我们说：“我要回到华盛顿。
Don’t argue with me.
别跟我争论。
I’m coming back.
我回来了。
Now!”
现在！”
Narrator: : By 4:30pm, Air Force One was headed back to Washington.
旁白： 下午 4:30，空军一号返回华盛顿。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Directo: r: I’ll never forget the images arriving into DC airspace on Air Force One, with two fighter jets so close to our wings you could see the stubble of the beard of the pilot, and then to look down on our nation’s capital and it just be deserted, and seeing smoke billowing out of the Pentagon.
丹·巴特利特（Dan Bartlett），白宫通讯总监： r：我永远不会忘记空军一号抵达华盛顿领空的画面，两架战斗机距离我们的机翼如此之近，你可以看到飞行员的胡茬，然后俯视我们国家的首都，它空无一人，看到五角大楼冒出滚滚浓烟。
You could have heard a pin drop on that airplane.
你可能会听到那架飞机上一根针掉落的声音。
In all the chaos it was eerily silent.
一片混乱之中，四周却出奇的寂静。
Narrator: : Finally back at the White House, Bush and his team readied the most important speech of his presidency so far, which he would deliver to the nation that night.
旁白：：终于回到白宫，布什和他的团队准备了他担任总统以来最重要的演讲，他将在当晚向全国发表演讲。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director : There was a lot of debate internally about what was the appropriate message.
白宫通讯主任丹·巴特利特：内部对于什么是适当的信息存在很多争论。
It was certainly clear to President Bush that his presidency was fundamentally altered on that day.
布什总统当然清楚，他的总统任期在那一天发生了根本性的改变。
SOT, Bush Oval Office Address, 9/11: : Today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom, came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.
SOT，布什椭圆形办公室讲话，9/11：：今天，我们的同胞、我们的生活方式、我们的自由，在一系列蓄意而致命的恐怖行为中受到攻击。
Narrator: : Mid-way through the speech, Bush made a statement that would lay the groundwork for a sweeping war on terror, shifting the course of American foreign policy and defining his presidency.
旁白：在演讲中途，布什发表了一项声明，为全面反恐战争奠定了基础，改变了美国外交政策的方向并确定了他的总统任期。
SOT, Bush: We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts, and those who harbor them.
布什总统：我们不会区分实施这些行为的恐怖分子和窝藏这些行为的人。
Narrator: In the span of just over 12 hours, a President who had been scorned as inexperienced and unprepared, overshadowed by his father and unappreciated by the country, had been thrust into a crisis the likes of which few presidents had ever faced.
旁白：在短短12个多小时的时间里，一位被嘲笑为经验不足、准备不足、被父亲蒙蔽、不受国家赏识的总统，陷入了一场很少有总统面临过的危机。
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary: : He became a war president, as he would put it.
阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer），新闻秘书：：正如他所说，他成为了一名战争总统。
The nation rallied because we were attacked, but I think the nation also had question marks about its nine-month long president at that point.
全国因为我们受到攻击而团结起来，但我认为当时全国也对其任期九个月的总统存有疑问。
Who are you?
你是谁？
What will you do?
你会怎么做？
Narrator: : Little in the past of George Walker Bush had prepared him for the challenges he would face after 9/11, nor inspire much confidence that he would rise to them.
旁白：乔治·沃克·布什过去几乎没有为 9/11 后将面临的挑战做好准备，也没有激发他对自己能够应对这些挑战的信心。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: George Bush was almost the perfect example, if not the wastrel, the profligate kid, the good-time Charlie, the wonderfully engaging friend, and fraternity brother that you've met a thousand times.
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：乔治·布什几乎是一个完美的例子，如果不是浪费者、挥霍的孩子、快乐的查理、非常迷人的朋友和你见过一千次的兄弟会兄弟的话。
What he wasn't, at least to my mind, was someone who would emerge as Governor of Texas or President of the United States.
至少在我看来，他并不是一个会成为德克萨斯州州长或美国总统的人。
Narrator: In 1970, twenty-four year old George Bush was far from the Washington fast track -- often found poolside at Chateaux Dijon, an apartment complex catering to the young and single where he lived in Houston.
旁白：1970 年，24 岁的乔治·布什远离华盛顿的快车道，经常出现在第戎城堡的池畔，这是他在休斯敦居住的一座公寓大楼，专门为年轻人和单身人士服务。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: He was kind of drifting, to be honest with you.
Charlie Younger，儿时好友：说实话，他有点随波逐流。
I don't think he had a focus on where he was heading.
我不认为他专注于他的前进方向。
I don't think he had a regular job, you know, that was a career path for him.
我认为他没有一份固定的工作，你知道，那是他的职业道路。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: He had to figure out what he wanted to do, and he wasn't doing it very quickly.
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：他必须弄清楚自己想做什么，但他做得并不快。
Mostly, he was drinking, carousing, and having fun.
大多数时候，他都是在喝酒、狂欢、玩乐。
Robert McCleskey, Childhood Friend: He’d drink too much, and he could really be obnoxious when he drank too much.
罗伯特·麦克莱斯基（Robert McCleskey），儿时好友：他会喝太多酒，而且当他喝太多时，他真的会变得令人讨厌。
For lack of a better word, he could be a real asshole when he drank.
由于找不到更好的词来形容，他喝醉后可能会成为一个真正的混蛋。
Narrator: Bush’s father, George Herbert Walker Bush, was a political star in the Republican Party.
旁白：布什的父亲乔治·赫伯特·沃克·布什是共和党的政治明星。
Peter Baker, Journalist: At this point his father is in a succession of appointed jobs from Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：此时，他的父亲正接连接受理查德·尼克松（Richard Nixon）和杰拉尔德·福特（Gerald Ford）的任命。
Ambassador to the United Nations, Republican Party chairman, ambassador to China, and finally, CIA director.
驻联合国大使、共和党主席、驻华大使，最后是中央情报局局长。
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SOT, Bush: It’s a whole new realm of life for my dad and our family.
SOT，布什：这对我父亲和我们的家人来说是一个全新的生活境界。
Having been in elective politics you kind of deal in one area, and now in international politics, I think it’s going to add so much more breadth to this man’s life and it’s fantastically exciting.
从事过选举政治后，你就只涉足一个领域，现在进入国际政治，我认为这将为这个人的生活增添更多的广度，这是非常令人兴奋的。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He is the height of American government.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他是美国政府的最高层。
Diplomacy, foreign policy, he’s dealing with weighty issues.
外交、外交政策，他正在处理重大问题。
And back home, his son is trying to find himself.
回到家后，他的儿子正在努力寻找自我。
Narrator: Father and son were often at odds over W’s waywardness.
旁白：父子俩经常因为W的任性而发生争执。
The situation reached its breaking point during the Christmas holidays in 1972.
1972 年圣诞节期间，这种情况达到了临界点。
After a night of heavy drinking, Bush crashed into his neighbor’s garbage cans.
布什喝了一晚酒后，撞进了邻居的垃圾桶。
His 16 year-old brother Marvin was in the car.
车里有他 16 岁的弟弟马文。
When his parents confronted him, Bush revealed a seething resentment, challenging his father to a fight.
当他的父母与他对峙时，布什流露出强烈的怨恨，向父亲发起挑战。
Peter Baker, Journalist: The father was always measuring the son, and the measuring, of course, is what makes it so hard for, you know, the firstborn of a storied family.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：父亲总是在衡量儿子，当然，这种衡量对于一个传奇家庭的长子来说是非常困难的。
They share a name, they share a family, they share a legacy.
他们有共同的名字，有共同的家庭，有共同的遗产。
It is possible to overstate the level of tension there, but it is important to understand who they are.
那里的紧张程度可能被夸大了，但了解他们是谁很重要。
Narrator: W, or Little George, as his family called him, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 6th, 1946, while his father was studying at Yale.
旁白：W，即家人对他的称呼，即“小乔治”，1946 年 7 月 6 日出生于康涅狄格州纽黑文，当时他的父亲正在耶鲁大学学习。
Peter Baker, Journalist: His father is from a family that mixed with the Roosevelts and the Vanderbilts and the elites of American society.
记者彼得·贝克：他的父亲出身于罗斯福、范德比尔特家族和美国社会精英的混合家庭。
No pressure, right?
没有压力吧？
But here is the inheritor of a dynasty, in effect.
但这实际上是一个王朝的继承人。
Ron Suskind, Journalist: My God, George W.
罗恩·苏斯金德，记者：天哪，乔治·W·布什
Bush grows up with his insanely accomplished dad.
布什和他才华横溢的父亲一起长大。
He’s the captain of every team he’s on, from Yale baseball on forward.
他是他所效力的每支球队的队长，从耶鲁大学棒球队的前锋开始。
Peter Baker, Journalist: His father was the youngest Navy aviator in the Pacific.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他的父亲是太平洋地区最年轻的海军飞行员。
He was shot down over the ocean.
他在大洋上空被击落。
Two of his crewmates died.
他的两名船员死亡。
He survived and was rescued by a submarine.
他幸存下来并被一艘潜艇救起。
Narrator: After graduating from Yale, George H.
旁白：从耶鲁大学毕业后，乔治·H.
W.
W.
Bush, or Poppy as he was called in the family, set about building up his own fortune, moving his wife Barbara and young son from Connecticut to Midland-Odessa, Texas, where the oil was gushing.
布什（他在家里被称为波比）开始积累自己的财富，将他的妻子芭芭拉和年幼的儿子从康涅狄格州搬到石油喷涌而出的得克萨斯州米德兰-敖德萨。
Bill Minutaglio, Writer: This wasn't, you know, Connecticut, they parachuted into a foreign country.
比尔·米努塔利奥（Bill Minutaglio），编剧：你知道，这不是康涅狄格州，他们跳伞到了外国。
It was just a culture shock, and out in far West Texas, where people literally were chewing tobacco, where literally tumbleweeds would come tumbling by.
这只是一种文化冲击，在遥远的德克萨斯州西部，人们确实在咀嚼烟草，风滚草会翻滚而过。
Narrator: But, little George was very much at home in Texas.
旁白：但是，小乔治在德克萨斯州过得很自在。
“The word I'd use is idyllic,” he recalled of his childhood home.
“我会用田园诗这个词来形容，”他回忆起童年的家。
”When I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind."
“当我谈到美国梦时，我想到的就是米德兰。”
In 1953, tragedy would strike the family when Bush’s three year-old sister Robin died after battling Leukemia.
1953年，悲剧降临到这个家庭，布什三岁的妹妹罗宾在与白血病作斗争后去世。
Barbara Bush fell into a deep depression.
芭芭拉·布什陷入了深深的抑郁之中。
Peter Baker, Journalist: His father responded by working even harder and not being around very much so it was left to George W.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他的父亲的反应是更加努力地工作，并且不在身边，所以这一切都留给了乔治·W·布什（George W.
to be the comforter to his mother.
成为他母亲的安慰者。
He told jokes, he cracked wise, he was trying to get her to smile.
他讲笑话，讲道理，试图让她微笑。
And it became a lifelong trait for him, you know.
你知道，这成为了他一生的特质。
The cutup.
剪切图。
The class clown.
班上的小丑。
He was a bit of a scamp.
他有点像个无赖。
He was a bit of a trouble maker.
他有点麻烦制造者。
He got in trouble when he was caught with a cigarette.
当他因抽烟而被发现时，他遇到了麻烦。
He got in trouble when he crashed the family car when he was 14, twice.[3]
14 岁时，他两次撞毁了家里的汽车，从而陷入了麻烦。[3]
Narrator: “Georgie aggravates the hell out of me at times,” an exasperated Poppy would complain.
旁白：“乔吉有时让我很恼火，”愤怒的波比会抱怨道。
“But then at times I am so proud of him I could die.”
“但有时我为他感到骄傲，甚至想死。”
Narrator: Like all Bush boys, George was sent to prep school at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts.
旁白：像所有布什男孩一样，乔治被送到马萨诸塞州菲利普斯学院的预科学校。
Unable to match his father’s exploits on the baseball diamond, Bush concentrated on his social skills, becoming head cheerleader.
由于无法与父亲在棒球场上的成就相媲美，布什专注于自己的社交技能，成为拉拉队队长。
Upon graduation, he followed two previous generations of Bush’s to Yale University.
毕业后，他跟随前两代布什进入耶鲁大学。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He doesn’t have his father’s history, he doesn’t have his father’s academic or athletic skills, so he becomes a student of people, a student of other kids.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他没有他父亲的历史，他没有他父亲的学术或运动技能，所以他成为了人们的学生，其他孩子的学生。
Clay Johnson, Classmate: He is a people person.
克莱·约翰逊（Clay Johnson），同学：他是一个善于交际的人。
He was friendly, warm, humorous, uh, but had this fantastic, genuine interest in people.
他很友好、热情、幽默，呃，但对人有一种奇妙的、真诚的兴趣。
Narrator: Bush spent most of his time at Yale drinking, socializing, and studiously ignoring the growing discord in the country over the war in Vietnam.
旁白：布什在耶鲁大学的大部分时间都在喝酒、社交，并刻意忽视越南战争导致的国内日益严重的不和。
But by 1968, Bush’s senior year, he could no longer hold the outside world at bay.
但到了 1968 年，即布什大四的那一年，他再也无法阻止外部世界了。
The campus was roiled with protests.
校园里充满了抗议活动。
Bush knew that with commencement, he would lose the academic deferment that had shielded him from the draft.
布什知道，随着毕业典礼的进行，他将失去使他免受选秀影响的学业延期。
Bill Minutaglio, Writer: In his heart of hearts he did not want to go to Vietnam but he knew damn well that his father's next step had been to join the military and then become a war hero.
比尔·米努塔利奥（Bill Minutaglio），作家：在他内心深处，他不想去越南，但他非常清楚，他父亲的下一步就是参军，然后成为一名战争英雄。
Narrator: To avoid combat in Vietnam, Bush joined the 147th Texas Air National Guard, along with other sons of wealthy and well-connected Texans.
旁白：为了避免越南战争，布什和其他富有、人脉广泛的德克萨斯人的儿子一起加入了第 147 德克萨斯州空军国民警卫队。
Though Bush proved an able pilot, he was never tested in battle.
尽管布什被证明是一位出色的飞行员，但他从未在战斗中接受过考验。
The 147th, it was said, would only see action if Oklahoma decided to invade Texas.
据说，只有俄克拉荷马州决定入侵德克萨斯州，第 147 团才会采取行动。
Bill Minutaglio, Writer: Some people derisively called it a champagne unit.
Bill Minutaglio，作家：有些人嘲笑它为香槟单位。
Certainly Bush had help getting into the National Guard.
当然，布什在加入国民警卫队方面得到了帮助。
It was a matter of privilege and access.
这是一个特权和访问权的问题。
Narrator: Decades later, questions would surface whether Bush had pulled strings to join the 147th, and whether he left before fulfilling his full term.
旁白：几十年后，人们开始质疑布什是否幕后黑手加入第 147 团，以及他是否在任期结束前离开。
But in 1970, he was honorably discharged, a fighter pilot who had never seen combat.
但在 1970 年，他作为一名从未参加过战斗的战斗机飞行员光荣退役。
Peter Baker, Journalist: At each stage, you know, he’s following his dad’s footsteps, each stage never as successful as the dad.
记者彼得·贝克：在每个阶段，你知道，他都在追随他父亲的脚步，每个阶段都没有父亲那么成功。
Narrator: With little direction of his own, Bush remained on the course his father had set; this time seeking his fortune in the Texas oil fields.
旁白：布什自己没有什么方向，他仍然沿着他父亲设定的路线前进。这次他在德克萨斯州的油田寻找财富。
After earning an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1975, W procured some seed money from the family and returned to Midland.
1975 年从哈佛商学院获得 MBA 学位后，W 从家族获得了一些种子资金，然后回到了米德兰。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: It was an opportunity to duplicate his father's success in the oil business.
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：这是一个复制他父亲在石油行业成功的机会。
But it was also a place, I think, he felt comfortable immediately.
但我想，这也是一个让他立刻感到舒服的地方。
This is who I am.
这就是我。
I'm a guy who's wearing cowboy boots.
我是一个穿着牛仔靴的人。
I'm a guy who knows what a pumpjack is and can go down to the Midland diner and eat with anyone.
我是一个知道什么是抽油机的人，可以去米德兰的餐馆和任何人一起吃饭。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: He probably was tired of drifting, if that's a good term, so he came to Midland with a singular focus, I think.
查理·杨格（Charlie Younger），儿时好友：我认为，他可能已经厌倦了随波逐流（如果这是一个好词的话），所以他带着一个单一的焦点来到了米德兰。
Narrator: In Midland, Bush formed his own oil exploration company, named “Arbusto,” Spanish for “Bush.” He drilled across West Texas looking for a big strike.
旁白：布什在米德兰成立了自己的石油勘探公司，名为“Arbusto”，西班牙语为“布什”。他在德克萨斯州西部进行钻探，寻找大罢工。
But as he worked to get Arbusto off the ground, W found himself tempted by yet another Bush family tradition.
但当他努力让阿布斯托起步时，W 发现自己被布什家族的另一个传统所吸引。
SOT, Bush: I’m George Bush, running for the Congress.
SOT，布什：我是乔治·布什，正在竞选国会议员。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: This group of conservative Midland oil men thought he would be a good candidate.
查理·杨格，儿时朋友：这群保守的米德兰石油人认为他会是一个很好的候选人。
They encouraged him to run, and he accepted the challenge, and he was a natural.
他们鼓励他跑步，他接受了挑战，他是天生的。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: While it was way premature for someone who, relatively speaking, just got there, his life was a pattern, and part of that pattern was duplicating the father's successes, but at the same time defining himself in the West Texas tradition as his own man.
记者韦恩·斯莱特：相对而言，对于刚刚到达那里的人来说，这还为时过早，但他的生活是一种模式，这种模式的一部分是复制父亲的成功，但同时在西德克萨斯传统中将自己定义为自己的人。
Narrator: A few weeks after announcing his candidacy, Bush attended a backyard barbecue where a pretty young librarian named Laura Welch caught his eye.
旁白：宣布参选几周后，布什参加了后院的烧烤会，一位名叫劳拉·韦尔奇（Laura Welch）的年轻漂亮图书管理员引起了他的注意。
“If there is love at first sight,” Bush would later write, “this was it.”
布什后来写道：“如果有一见钟情，那就是它了。”
Robert McCleskey, Childhood Friend: I don’t know that anybody would have put them together at all.
童年好友罗伯特·麦克莱斯基：我不知道有人会把它们放在一起。
They just were two totally different personalities.
他们只是两个性格完全不同的人。
Most people that knew both of them were surprised.
大多数认识他们的人都感到惊讶。
Barbara Perry, Historian: This is clearly a case of opposites attracting: the quiet, somewhat shy introverted school librarian meets up with the wise-cracking, rough-edged, cowboy persona, hard drinking George Bush.
芭芭拉·佩里（Barbara Perry），历史学家：这显然是一个异性相吸的例子：安静、有点害羞内向的学校图书管理员遇到了爱说俏皮话、粗鲁的牛仔形象、酗酒的乔治·布什。
As he put it, she was beautiful, she was elegant, she was smart, and he said, "she accepted my rough edges and helped to smooth them."
正如他所说，她很美丽，她很优雅，她很聪明，他说，“她接受了我的粗糙边缘，并帮助磨平了它们。”
Narrator: No sooner had they married than the couple was back out on the road, driving the West Texas district from Lubbock to Abilene.
旁白：他们结婚后不久，这对夫妇就又上路了，开车从拉伯克到阿比林的西德克萨斯地区。
SOT, Bush: That campaign was my first year of my marriage.
SOT，布什：那次竞选是我结婚的第一年。
It was like honeymooning on the campaign trail.
这就像在竞选过程中度蜜月一样。
SOT, Bush 1978 campaign advertisement: I feel sure I can be an effective congressman.
SOT，布什 1978 年竞选广告：我确信我可以成为一名有效的国会议员。
I’ll listen to you, I’ll work hard for you, and I’ll introduce and vote for legislation that’s in our best interest.
我会听你的，我会为你努力工作，我会提出并投票支持最符合我们利益的立法。
Together we can do a lot for West Texas.
我们齐心协力可以为西德克萨斯州做很多事情。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He was running against a Democrat named Kent Hance and Hance just portrayed him as a, as an outsider, somebody from New England and Bush had to prove himself as being an authentic Texan.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：他正在与一位名叫肯特·汉斯（Kent Hance）的民主党人竞选，汉斯只是把他描绘成一个来自新英格兰的局外人，而布什必须证明自己是一个真正的德克萨斯人。
Kent Hance, Political Opponent: We put a theme of I’m one of you, and he’s not, he’s an outsider.
肯特·汉斯（Kent Hance），政治对手：我们的主题是“我是你们中的一员，而他不是，他是一个局外人”。
We tried to make it a race of Texas Tech versus Yale.
我们试图让它成为德克萨斯理工大学与耶鲁大学的竞赛。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He has to answer for it.
记者彼得·贝克：他必须为此负责。
He has to answer for this New England family he’s trying to escape from in some ways.
他必须为这个他试图以某种方式逃离的新英格兰家庭负责。
Narrator: With Poppy’s help, W’s campaign broke Texas state fundraising records, but along with the money came charges of nepotism.
旁白：在 Poppy 的帮助下，W 的竞选活动打破了德克萨斯州的筹款记录，但随之而来的是裙带关系的指控。
SOT, Hance: You look at the four fundraisers he’s had and the fact that his dad’s there.
SOT，汉斯：你看看他举办的四次筹款活动以及他父亲在那里的事实。
That definitely helps him raise money.
这绝对有助于他筹集资金。
SOT, Bush: It’s amazing to me that here we are running for an important position and we’re now talking about whether or not people in the 19th congressional district are confusing me with my dad.
SOT，布什：令我惊讶的是，我们正在竞选一个重要职位，而且我们现在正在讨论第 19 国会选区的人们是否将我和我父亲混淆了。
Narrator: Although the race was closer than anyone expected, Bush’s congressional run ended in defeat.
旁白：尽管竞选比任何人预期的都激烈，布什的国会竞选还是以失败告终。
Kent Hance, Political Opponent: He used to say that we tried to “good-old-boy” him to death.
肯特·汉斯（Kent Hance），政治对手：他常说我们试图把他“老好人”弄死。
Uh, we did “good-old-boy” him but I’ll say this.
呃，我们对他做了“好老男孩”，但我要这么说。
After the race was over he said he’d never be “out-good-old-boy-ed” again in the state of Texas.
比赛结束后，他说他在德克萨斯州再也不会成为“好老男孩”了。
Narrator: After his congressional loss, W returned to the oil business, now suffering through a prolonged slump.
旁白：在国会失利后，W 重返石油行业，但目前正经历长期的低迷。
George and Laura were also struggling to start a family, and had begun interviews with a Fort Worth adoption agency.
乔治和劳拉也在努力组建家庭，并开始接受沃斯堡一家收养机构的采访。
They were well into the process when Laura learned she was pregnant with twin girls.
当劳拉得知自己怀上了双胞胎女儿时，他们已经进入了这个过程。
Jenna and Barbara Bush were born in 1981, each named after a grandmother.
珍娜·布什 (Jenna Bush) 和芭芭拉·布什 (Barbara Bush) 出生于 1981 年，各自以祖母的名字命名。
With a young family to provide for, Bush was ever more pressured to make a big strike, and ever more frustrated by his repeated failures.
由于要养活一个年轻的家庭，布什面临着更大的压力，要做出一次大的打击，而他的一次又一次的失败也让他更加沮丧。
His company, some joked, should change its name from Arbusto to “Ar-BUST-o.”
有人开玩笑说，他的公司应该将名称从 Arbusto 改为“Ar-BUST-o”。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: : It's very risky.
Charlie Younger，童年好友： ：这是非常危险的。
You know, you can be a millionaire one day and absolutely broke the next day.
你知道，你可能有一天成为百万富翁，但第二天就彻底破产了。
It was always better to be lucky than good.
幸运总是比优秀更好。
I mean let's face it, he wasn't particularly lucky.
我的意思是让我们面对现实吧，他并不是特别幸运。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He’s ranked, I think, in the 995th biggest oil company in Texas or something like that.
Peter Baker，记者：我认为，他在德克萨斯州最大的石油公司中排名第 995 位。
At one point he says, “I’m all name and no money.”
有一次他说：“我只有名气，没有钱。”
Michael Gerson, Chief Speechwriter: I think his friends and family when he was nearly 40 years old were worried about what he was going to do with his life.
迈克尔·格尔森（Michael Gerson），首席演讲撰稿人：我认为，当他快 40 岁的时候，他的朋友和家人都担心他的一生要做什么。
He drank too much and he had very little direction.
他喝了太多酒，而且没有什么方向。
Narrator: Feeling lost, Bush began to attend a weekly bible study session at the suggestion of some friends.
旁白：感到失落的布什在一些朋友的建议下开始参加每周的查经班。
The program was called Community Bible Study and was a scriptural boot-camp.
该计划被称为社区圣经研究，是一个圣经训练营。
Peter Baker, Journalist: Bush, he’s looking for something, right?
记者彼得·贝克：布什，他正在寻找一些东西，对吗？
He’s seeking out direction, meaning, understanding.
他正在寻找方向、意义和理解。
Religion begins to give him that definition, that path forward.
宗教开始给他这样的定义和前进的道路。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: The oil business was up and down, and there was a kind of spiritual sense in Midland, an understanding that things go down, but they will go up, and that fundamentally you must have faith, and part of that faith was a Christian faith.
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：石油业起起落落，米德兰有一种精神上的感觉，一种理解，事情会下降，但它们会上升，从根本上来说，你必须有信仰，而这种信仰的一部分是基督教信仰。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: He transitioned from a churchgoer to a Christ follower and wanted to emulate the tenets and teachings of Jesus Christ, and he made a definite transformation there.
查理·杨格（Charlie Younger），儿时的朋友：他从常去教堂的人转变为基督的追随者，并想效仿耶稣基督的教义和教义，他在那里做出了明确的转变。
Narrator: Armed with a newfound faith, Bush finally addressed one of his lifelong demons: alcohol.
旁白：怀着新的信仰，布什终于解决了他一生的恶魔之一：酒精。
The decisive moment would come after Bush’s 40th birthday party.
决定性的时刻将在布什 40 岁生日聚会之后到来。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: He woke up hungover, he'd overdone it the night before, and he didn't feel good, and I think Laura told him that he could have behaved better.
查理·杨格（Charlie Younger），儿时好友：他宿醉醒来，前一天晚上喝醉了，他感觉不太好，我想劳拉告诉他，他可以表现得更好。
He just said I don't need this in my life, it's robbing me of my energy, it’s taking too much of my time.
他只是说我的生活中不需要这个，它剥夺了我的能量，它占用了我太多的时间。
SOT, Bush: “Well, I quit because at times I thought I liked to drink too much.
SOT，布什：“嗯，我戒烟了，因为有时我觉得自己喜欢喝太多酒。
Somebody said to me, “can you think of any day you haven’t had a beer?” And I couldn’t.
有人对我说：“你能想象一下你有哪一天没有喝啤酒吗？”但我不能。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: I think another big factor is he didn't want to be an embarrassment to his dad.
查理·杨格（Charlie Younger），童年好友：我认为另一个重要因素是他不想让他的父亲难堪。
And it’s always been a driving force in his life.
这一直是他生活的驱动力。
Narrator: After serving two terms as Ronald Reagan’s Vice President, George H.W.
旁白：在担任罗纳德·里根的副总统两届任期后，乔治·H·W·布什 (George H.W.
Bush was the GOP’s leading candidate for the 1988 presidential election.
布什是 1988 年总统选举中共和党的主要候选人。
With a White House bid would come increased scrutiny of the entire Bush family.
随着入主白宫，整个布什家族将受到更严格的审查。
Peter Baker, Journalist: His father was gearing up to run for President.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他的父亲正准备竞选总统。
A bad incident by his son would reflect terribly on the father.
儿子发生的一件坏事会给父亲带来可怕的影响。
It’s that fear that helps him finally get his act together.
正是这种恐惧帮助他最终振作起来。
He sells his oil business, he moved to Washington, and he joins the campaign.
他卖掉了自己的石油业务，搬到了华盛顿，并加入了竞选活动。
And he has no title.
而且他没有头衔。
His dad says, ‘you don’t need a title, you’re my son.
他的父亲说，‘你不需要头衔，你是我的儿子。
SOT, Bush: What time is it?
SOT，布什：现在几点了？
It’s victory time!
胜利时刻到了！
This is the non-political part of this.
这是其中的非政治部分。
Peter Baker, Journalist: This is a moment that begins to change their relationship.
记者彼得·贝克：这是一个开始改变他们关系的时刻。
His father begins to trust his son, and give him responsibility knowing he can rely on him, and for W, he begins to sort of shed some of the baggage that had been there in the past.
他的父亲开始信任他的儿子，并赋予他责任，知道他可以依靠他，而对于 W 来说，他开始摆脱过去的一些包袱。
News SOT: George Bush is the 41st President of the United States.
新闻 SOT：乔治·布什是美国第 41 任总统。
Doug Wead, Spiritual Advisor: After the ’88 election, he started talking about who’s going to go where, who on the staff is going to go to the inaugural committee, who’s going to go to the White House, and in the middle of that conversation, he pauses, and he says, “What’s going to happen to me?” SOT, speaker unknown: First child, of the first family, George Bush Jr.
道格·韦德（Doug Wead），精神顾问：88年大选后，他开始谈论谁将去往何处，工作人员中的谁将前往就职委员会，谁将前往白宫，在谈话中，他停了下来，他说：“我会发生什么？” SOT，发言者未知：第一家庭的第一个孩子，小乔治·布什。
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Ratcliffe, Journalist: There was sort of a push for both him and his brother Jeb to go into politics.
拉特克利夫，记者：有人推动他和他的兄弟杰布进入政界。
The family kind of favored Jeb.
家人都比较偏爱杰布。
George had been sort of the ne’er-do-well son.
乔治是个不善事的儿子。
SOT, Barbara Bush: Jeb is our politician.
SOT，芭芭拉·布什：杰布是我们的政客。
He’s the Republican county chairman of Dade County, Florida, Miami.
他是迈阿密佛罗里达州戴德县的共和党县主席。
You oughta ask Jeb, don’t skip him.
你应该问杰布，不要跳过他。
“My pool has been expanded so much because of who my Dad is,” Bush would tell a reporter.
“因为我的父亲，我的池子扩大了很多，”布什告诉记者。
“The advantage is that everybody knows who I am.
“好处是每个人都知道我是谁。
The disadvantage is no matter how great my accomplishments, no one is going to give me credit for them.” While his father prepared to move into the White House, Bush returned to Texas, and for the first time, set out on a course of his own.
缺点是无论我取得多么伟大的成就，没有人会相信我。”当他的父亲准备入主白宫时，布什回到德克萨斯州，并第一次开始了自己的道路。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: The opportunity came up to buy the Texas Rangers baseball team.
记者 Wayne Slater：收购德克萨斯游骑兵棒球队的机会出现了。
And there was no question I think, in his mind, that there was a political calculus in the sense that this can’t hurt.
我认为毫无疑问，在他看来，这存在某种政治算计，因为这不会造成伤害。
SOT, Bush: We’re fixing to build the best baseball park ever built.
SOT，布什：我们正在努力建造有史以来最好的棒球公园。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He didn’t have enough to buy a baseball team, so what he does is, he does what he does best, he networks.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他没有足够的钱买一支棒球队，所以他所做的是，他做他最擅长的事情，他建立人际网络。
Pulls together, tens of millions of dollars by other people’s money, and he becomes sort of this fixture at the ballpark.
靠别人的钱凑到了数千万美元，他就成了球场上的固定人物。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: Bush, being Bush, put on his Texas Rangers cowboy boots, and got a seat not up in the box, not where the owners usually sit, but down there where the rest of the fans sat, and that's where he was, game after game.
韦恩·斯雷特，记者：布什，作为布什，穿上他的德克萨斯游骑兵队牛仔靴，找到了一个座位，不是在包厢里，不是老板通常坐的地方，而是在下面其他球迷坐的地方，那是他在一场又一场比赛中坐的地方。
SOT, Bush: It really is the most fabulous place to watch baseball ever built.
SOT，布什：这确实是有史以来最棒的观看棒球比赛的地方。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: And he became a really beloved figure for the Texas Rangers.
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：他成为了德克萨斯游骑兵队真正深受喜爱的人物。
Now, Bush could say I did this on my own, I'm my own man.
现在，布什可以说这是我自己做的，我是我自己的人。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: There was one little other subtle thing.
Charlie Younger，童年好友：还有一件微妙的事情。
While he was partner with the Rangers, he went to all 254 counties in the state of Texas in the name of promoting Rangers baseball, but he was also getting name recognition in all 254 counties and I think that would fend him well in any future statewide political run.
当他是流浪者队的合伙人时，他以推广流浪者队棒球的名义走遍了德克萨斯州的所有 254 个县，但他也在所有 254 个县中获得了知名度，我认为这将在未来的全州政治竞选中为他提供很好的帮助。
I think that was another motive.
我认为这是另一个动机。
Narrator: In 1992, Poppy’s long political career came to an abrupt and shocking end with his reelection defeat by the dynamic Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton.
旁白：1992 年，波比漫长的政治生涯突然而令人震惊地结束，他在连任中被充满活力的阿肯色州州长比尔·克林顿击败。
SOT, Bush 41 speaking on election night: There is important work to be done, and America must always come first.
SOT，布什 41 在选举之夜发表讲话：有重要的工作要做，美国必须永远放在第一位。
Barbara Perry, Historian: The loss to Bill Clinton was a blow to the whole family.
芭芭拉·佩里，历史学家：输给比尔·克林顿对整个家庭来说都是一个打击。
Uh, I just don't think they ever thought that the war hero, George H.W.
呃，我只是认为他们从来没有想过战争英雄乔治·H·W·布什 (George H.W.
Bush, the statesman that he was, could lose to the baby boomer, draft-dodging, marijuana-smoking Bill Clinton.
布什，这位政治家，可能会输给婴儿潮一代、逃避兵役、吸食大麻的比尔·克林顿。
They were devastated by it.
他们被它摧毁了。
But as one door closes, another door opens.
但当一扇门关闭时，另一扇门就会打开。
It turns out that for George W.
事实证明，对于乔治·W.
Bush, this would be the door opener for him.
布什，这将为他打开大门。
Narrator: Just days after his little brother, Jeb, declared his candidacy for Governor of Florida, W.
旁白：就在他的弟弟杰布宣布竞选佛罗里达州州长几天后，W.
announced his own in Texas.
在德克萨斯州宣布了自己的决定。
SOT, Bush’s announcement: Let’s make it official.
SOT，布什的声明：让我们正式宣布吧。
I’m a candidate for Governor of Texas.
我是德克萨斯州州长的候选人。
Narrator: He would be challenging Ann Richards, the popular Democrat incumbent and long-time nemesis of the Bush family.
旁白：他将挑战安·理查兹，她是受欢迎的民主党现任议员，也是布什家族的长期宿敌。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He’s going to run against the very person, Ann Richards, Democratic governor, who had mocked his dad so viciously, in his view, at the Democratic Convention.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：他将与民主党州长安·理查兹（Ann Richards）竞争，在他看来，安·理查兹在民主党全国代表大会上如此恶毒地嘲笑了他的父亲。
SOT, Ann Richards at DNC: Poor George.
SOT，民主党全国委员会的安·理查兹：可怜的乔治。
He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
他出生时嘴里含着一只银足。
Charlie Younger, Childhood Friend: A lot of people, myself included, thought that she'd be very hard to beat.
Charlie Younger，儿时好友：很多人，包括我自己，都认为她很难被击败。
But he said I'm going to run, and I'm going to beat her.
但他说我要跑，我要打败她。
I think that he wanted to even that score.
我认为他想扳平比分。
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Ratcliffe, Journalist: Ann Richards was a stage persona.
拉特克利夫，记者：安·理查兹是一个舞台人物。
I mean she was charismatic, electric, she was funny, she was quick witted.
我的意思是她很有魅力、充满活力、很有趣、机智敏捷。
And she could be really mean.
她可能真的很刻薄。
SOT, Ann Richards: You know, I have a fella who is challenging me for Governor, and I am sure…thank you.
SOT，安·理查兹：你知道，我有一个人正在挑战我的州长职位，我确信……谢谢。
And I really and truly, and I have said a million times, I know he means well and if he would start by running for the city council or for...
我真的，我已经说过一百万遍了，我知道他的本意是好的，如果他首先竞选市议会或......
Doug Wead, Spiritual Advisor: Inside the family, I think they were a little nervous, because they were afraid he’d fail at it, and he knew that, which drove him on all the more.
道格·韦德（Doug Wead），精神顾问：在家庭内部，我认为他们有点紧张，因为他们担心他会失败，而他知道这一点，这更加激励他前进。
Narrator: On the surface, Richards looked unbeatable, an incumbent with an approval rating in the high 60’s.
旁白：从表面上看，理查兹看起来是无与伦比的，是一位支持率高达 60 多岁的现任总统。
But Bush had an edge - the help of a clever Republican strategist named Karl Rove.
但布什有一个优势——一位聪明的共和党战略家卡尔·罗夫的帮助。
Rove was a longtime associate of Poppy’s and one of the most formidable and ruthless strategists in the country
罗夫是波比的长期合作伙伴，也是这个国家最强大、最无情的战略家之一
He had been captivated by W.
他已经被W迷住了。
since their first meeting in the 1970’s.
自从他们在 1970 年代第一次见面以来。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: In walks this guy in his National Guard Air Flight jacket wearing cowboy boots and Levis, exuding more charisma than anybody should and he was smart as heck.
卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove），高级顾问：这个家伙穿着国民警卫队空军飞行夹克、牛仔靴和李维斯鞋走进来，散发出比任何人都应有的魅力，而且他非常聪明。
I mean, I know the reputation, the good old boy from Midland, the village idiot.
我的意思是，我知道这个名声，来自米德兰的好老男孩，村里的白痴。
But, here’s a Yale history major and a Harvard MBA.
但是，这是耶鲁大学历史专业和哈佛 MBA 学位。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: He was a screwup at the time.
劳伦斯·赖特（Lawrence Wright），记者：他当时搞砸了。
Karl saw something in Bush before anybody else did.
卡尔先于其他人在布什身上看到了一些东西。
He was smitten.
他被迷住了。
Narrator: : W.
旁白：：W.
was central to Karl Rove’s vision of a solid red Texas.
是卡尔·罗夫 (Karl Rove) 纯红色德克萨斯愿景的核心。
Someone who could appeal to centrist Democrats and Republicans alike.
一个可以吸引中间派民主党人和共和党人的人。
For Bush, Rove was the strategic brain who could take him to the political heights he dreamed of.
对于布什来说，罗夫是战略大脑，可以将他带到他梦想的政治高度。
Lou Dubose, Writer: I mean, Karl Rove was pygmalion and he created George W.
卢·杜博斯（Lou Dubose），作家：我的意思是，卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove）是皮格马利翁，他创造了乔治·W·布什（George W.
Bush.
布什。
He saw that this was a kind of ruggedly handsome guy, young man, who could be groomed for something greater.
他看到这是一位粗犷英俊的小伙子，年轻人，可以为更伟大的事业做好准备。
He convinced George W.
他说服了乔治·W.
Bush he was that candidate and then he made him that candidate.
布什，他是那个候选人，然后他让他成为那个候选人。
I have spent eleven long, long joyous months campaigning all over the state.
我已经度过了漫长、漫长、欢乐的十一个月，在全州各地进行竞选活动。
My mission was to tell Texas that there is another George Bush in this state.
我的任务是告诉德克萨斯州，这个州还有另一个乔治·布什。
And I have been able to do so.
我已经能够做到这一点。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: The only thing George W.
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：乔治·W·布什（George W.
Bush doesn't have is any knowledge of how government works.
布什对政府如何运作一无所知。
And so what Rove did is recruited experts, and put Bush onto a series of lessons that went for months, in which he learned about the budget, and he learned about taxes.
因此，罗夫所做的就是招募专家，让布什接受一系列持续数月的课程，其中他了解了预算，也了解了税收。
Learned how to answer questions.
学会了如何回答问题。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: Every politician, if they’re smart, recognizes they need help.
卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove），高级顾问：每个政治家，如果他们聪明的话，都会认识到他们需要帮助。
He kept going around saying ‘I’m a capitalist!” You know, Mr. Bush, you maybe oughta stop saying capitalist and start saying, “I believe in free enterprise and I’m a businessman.”
他到处说‘我是资本家’！”你知道，布什先生，你也许应该停止说资本主义，而开始说：“我相信自由企业，我是一名商人。”
Wayne Slater, Journalist: Ann Richards knew that George W.
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：安·理查兹（Ann Richards）知道乔治·W·布什（George W.
Bush could run a good race against her, but she underestimated him because she thought he was dumb.
布什可以与她赛跑，但她低估了他，因为她认为他很愚蠢。
Karen Hughes, Counselor To The President: He just relished that.
总统顾问凯伦·休斯：他只是喜欢这样。
He's self confident enough that he didn't let that get to him.
他足够自信，所以他没有让这件事影响到他。
He made fun of it, and was able to let it roll off his back.
他取笑了它，并且能够让它从他的背上滚下来。
SOT, Richards: Unless you can put a dollar figure to what you propose and then tell the people how you are going to pay for it, you are being inexperienced at the cost of the taxpayers’ of Texas.
SOT，理查兹：除非你能用美元数字来表达你的提议，然后告诉人们你将如何支付它，否则你就缺乏经验，而代价是德克萨斯州纳税人的利益。
SOT, Bush: The incumbent Governor of the State of Texas is spending all her money on TV, trying to make me something I’m not.
SOT，布什：现任德克萨斯州州长把所有的钱都花在电视上，试图让我成为我不是的人。
We ought to be discussing welfare reform, juvenile justice, education, ways to make Texas a better place for our children.
我们应该讨论福利改革、少年司法、教育以及如何让德克萨斯州成为对我们的孩子来说更美好的地方。
Narrator: Bush’s discipline took the Richards campaign by surprise.
旁白：布什的纪律让理查兹竞选团队大吃一惊。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: One thing that Bush was capable of doing is staying on message.
记者劳伦斯·赖特：布什能够做的一件事就是坚持信息。
He just never went outside the lines.
他只是从来没有越过界限。
He was an incredibly disciplined candidate.
他是一位纪律严明的候选人。
Narrator: By election day, he was polling higher than anyone had thought possible.
旁白：到选举日时，他的民意支持率比任何人想象的都要高。
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Ratcliffe, Journalist: Running for Governor was important to Bush for his own self validation.
拉特克利夫，记者：竞选州长对于布什来说很重要，因为他可以证明自己。
To win an office, do it on his own, and kind of prove to his parents that he could be as good as Jeb was.
为了赢得职位，他必须自己做，并向他的父母证明他可以像杰布一样优秀。
News SOT: Their younger son Jeb lost a close race for the Governor of Florida.
新闻 SOT：他们的小儿子 Jeb 在一场势均力敌的佛罗里达州州长竞选中落败。
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Ratcliffe, Journalist: Surprise surprise, Jeb lost and George won.
拉特克利夫，记者：令人惊讶的是，杰布输了，乔治赢了。
News SOT: A race that was supposed to last well into the night was over early.
新闻 SOT：一场原本要持续到深夜的比赛却提前结束了。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: Lots of people are cheering and getting excited.
Karl Rove，高级顾问：很多人都欢呼雀跃，兴奋不已。
Lots of friends of his are in the room and he wants to go talk to his parents.
他的很多朋友都在房间里，他想去和他的父母谈谈。
So he motions to me and he walks into the, to the bathroom and calls up his dad.
于是他向我示意，然后走进浴室，给他爸爸打电话。
It's clear his father's just in complete meltdown about Jeb losing and finally, the now governor-to-be of Texas, said, “Well, Dad I won.”
很明显，他的父亲对杰布的失败彻底崩溃了，最后，现任德克萨斯州准州长说：“好吧，爸爸，我赢了。”
Narrator: On January 17, 1995, George W.
旁白：1995年1月17日，乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush was sworn in as governor of Texas.
布什宣誓就任德克萨斯州州长。
SOT, Bush inauguration: So help me god.
SOT，布什就职典礼：上帝啊，请帮助我。
So help me god
所以请上帝帮助我
Narrator: Bush was just the second Republican governor elected in Texas in over 100 years.
旁白：布什是德克萨斯州一百多年来第二位当选的共和党州长。
He would soon have to hold his own against the entrenched Democratic powers who ran the state legislature with an iron hand.
很快，他将不得不与铁腕统治州立法机构的根深蒂固的民主党势力作斗争。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: The governor of Texas is constitutionally weak.
卡尔·罗夫，高级顾问：德克萨斯州州长在宪法上是软弱的。
The speaker and particularly the lieutenant governor are all-powerful.
议长，特别是副州长拥有全权。
Literally no bill can be brought up without the permission of the lieutenant governor.
从字面上看，未经副州长许可，任何法案都不能提出。
And the lieutenant governor was Bob Bullock, who was strong as an acre of garlic.
副州长是鲍勃·布洛克，他像一英亩大蒜一样强壮。
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Lou Dubose, Writer: He was meaner than a snake.
卢·杜博斯（Lou Dubose），作家：他比蛇还卑鄙。
He was intimidating.
他很吓人。
Senators described his drive-by ass-chewings.
参议员们描述了他的驾车嚼屁股行为。
Narrator: To Bullock’s surprise, Bush approached him with an olive branch.
旁白：令布洛克惊讶的是，布什向他伸出了橄榄枝。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: : George W.
丹·巴特利特 (Dan Bartlett)，白宫通讯总监：乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush didn’t come in acting like he knew everything.
布什进来时并没有表现得好像他什么都知道。
He listened.
他听着。
And I think Bullock probably didn’t expect that.
我认为布洛克可能没有预料到这一点。
Lou Dubose, Writer: : George W.
卢·杜博斯 (Lou Dubose)，编剧：乔治·W.
Bush and Karl Rove seduced him.
布什和卡尔·罗夫引诱了他。
They courted him.
他们向他求爱。
They worked him.
他们为他工作。
And he came to hold Bush in really high regard, and in the end was something of a political godfather.
他开始非常尊重布什，最终成为了一位政治教父。
Narrator: With Bullock’s support, Bush sailed through his first term -- easily fending off a Democratic challenger for re-election in 1998.
旁白：在布洛克的支持下，布什顺利完成了他的第一个任期——轻松击退了民主党挑战者，争取连任，并于 1998 年获胜。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: It was Bob Bullock who was the first person to declare on Bush’s 50th Birthday: “We're looking at the next President of the United States.” Nobody had ever said that.
记者劳伦斯·赖特：鲍勃·布洛克是第一个在布什 50 岁生日之际宣布“我们正在寻找下一任美国总统”的人。从来没有人这么说过。
And, it was a democrat.
而且，这是一位民主党人。
It was a leading Democrat in the state.
这是该州领先的民主党人。
It was a kind of anointing.
这是一种恩膏。
Narrator: By the mid-1990’s, the one time good old boy, the Bush family’s black sheep, was being seriously discussed as a Republican presidential candidate.
旁白：到了1990年代中期，曾经的好孩子、布什家族的害群之马，作为共和党总统候选人而受到认真讨论。
Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President: I got a call one day from, uh, from a reporter and they were asking me about a poll that shows your boss as the front-runner to be the GOP nominee for President.
总统顾问凯伦·休斯：有一天，我接到一位记者打来的电话，他们问我一项民意调查，该民意调查显示你的老板是共和党总统候选人的领跑者。
I made a beeline for his office and he said, what?
我径直走向他的办公室，他说，什么？
We were both kind of incredulous.
我们都有点难以置信。
And then it sort of snowballed from there.
然后事情就从那里滚雪球般越滚越大。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: People began to look at him as a presidential contender.
劳伦斯·赖特（Lawrence Wright），记者：人们开始将他视为总统竞争者。
But he thought he wasn't ready.
但他认为自己还没有准备好。
He told his friends and you know, he felt like a cork in the river that it was just, it was carrying him along almost without his own volition.
他告诉他的朋友们，你知道，他感觉就像河里的软木塞一样，它几乎不自觉地带着他前进。
SOT, Bush: : I come here under no illusions.
SOT，布什：我来到这里并不抱任何幻想。
I know expectations are sky high.
我知道期望值很高。
But I got a pretty good reminder about life its own self when my daughter, one of our twins said, “Daddy, I’ve been reading the polls.
但当我的女儿（我们的双胞胎之一）说：“爸爸，我一直在看民意调查时，我得到了关于生活本身的一个很好的提醒。
You’re not nearly as cool as cool as the people think you are.”
你并不像人们想象的那么酷。”
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: We built up a gigantic fundraising apparatus outside of Texas.
卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove），高级顾问：我们在德克萨斯州郊外建立了一个巨大的筹款机构。
So we went to California, we went to New York.
所以我们去了加利福尼亚，我们去了纽约。
We took his dad’s network.
我们拿走了他父亲的网络。
SOT, Bush: I’m running for President of the United States.
SOT，布什：我正在竞选美国总统。
There’s no turning back.
没有回头路。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: He had Harvard Business School classmates that were being successful all around the country.
卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove），高级顾问：他的哈佛商学院同学在全国各地都取得了成功。
SOT, Bush: And I intend to be the next President of the United States.
SOT，布什：我打算成为下一任美国总统。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: Baseball friends.
Karl Rove，高级顾问：棒球朋友。
We had his brother’s network by then.
那时我们已经有了他兄弟的网络。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: There was an early announcement of the campaign contributions.
记者韦恩·斯莱特：很早就宣布了竞选捐款。
And it was stunning.
这是令人惊叹的。
It was so many millions of dollars, that was simply beyond anything anybody expected.
数额如此之多，数百万美元，这简直超出了任何人的预期。
Narrator: By the summer of 2000, Bush had built an insurmountable lead in the Republican race.
旁白：到 2000 年夏天，布什在共和党竞选中已经建立了不可逾越的领先优势。
But as he accepted the nomination of his party, he knew he faced an uphill battle to defeat the Democratic candidate, Vice President Al Gore.
但当他接受党内提名时，他知道自己面临着一场艰苦的战斗，要击败民主党候选人、副总统阿尔·戈尔。
Peter Baker, Journalist: Al Gore is running to succeed a popular President.
记者彼得·贝克：阿尔·戈尔正在竞选一位受欢迎的总统的继任者。
Bill Clinton had been impeached but his approval ratings were in the 60s.
比尔·克林顿遭到弹劾，但他的支持率只有 60 多岁。
So once again Bush is kind of taking on, in effect, an underdog role.
因此，布什实际上再次扮演了一个失败者的角色。
Narrator: Bush had always done best when least was expected.
旁白：布什总是在最意想不到的时候做得最好。
In the fall of 2000, he took to the campaign trail criss-crossing the country with the energy of a Texas twister.
2000年秋天，他带着德克萨斯州龙卷风般的能量，开始了穿越全国的竞选活动。
Peter Baker, Journalist: He felt very comfortable on the campaign trail, he enjoyed it, he enjoyed being with people, he was a classic extrovert in that sense, he got energy from other people.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他在竞选过程中感觉非常舒服，他喜欢它，他喜欢与人相处，从这个意义上说，他是一个典型的外向者，他从其他人那里获得能量。
SOT, Bush: We need a leader to bring Republicans and Democrats together to reform...
布什总统：我们需要一位领导人将共和党和民主党团结起来进行改革......
Josh Bolten, Chief of Staff: One of the best one-on-one politicians of the modern age and was always a frustration to those of us who worked for him that that didn’t always communicate through mass media.
乔什·博尔滕（Josh Bolten），幕僚长：现代最优秀的一对一政治家之一，对于我们这些为他工作的人来说，他总是感到沮丧，因为他并不总是通过大众媒体进行沟通。
Narrator: While Bush shined when face to face with voters, on television he often seemed unready to be President.
旁白：虽然布什在与选民面对面时表现出色，但在电视上他似乎还没有准备好担任总统。
SOT, Bush: If you are a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I’m concerned, and you’re working hard to put food on your family.
SOT，布什：如果你是一位有两个孩子的单亲母亲，就我而言，这是美国最艰难的工作，而你正在努力工作来养家糊口。
Michael Gerson, Chief Speechwriter: The American public was seeing someone who had not spent their entire life in politics.
迈克尔·格尔森（Michael Gerson），首席演讲撰稿人：美国公众看到的是一个没有一生都在从政的人。
I mean, he went into politics as a middle-aged person and he didn’t have a set of acting skills that a lot of other politicians had developed over time, so you did get certain gaffes.
我的意思是，他在中年时进入政界，他没有许多其他政客随着时间的推移而发展起来的一套表演技巧，所以你确实会出现某些失态。
SOT, Bush: I want to make it clear to people that, you know, the idea of putting subliminable messages in the ads is...
SOT，布什：我想向人们明确表示，你知道，在广告中放入可升华信息的想法是......
is ridiculous.
太荒谬了。
We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
我们不能让恐怖分子和流氓国家敌视这个国家或敌视我们的盟友。
More nations have nukular weapons, and still more have nukular aspirations.
越来越多的国家拥有核武器，更多的国家有核武器的愿望。
Colbert: That guy mispronounces everything.
科尔伯特：那家伙什么都念错。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: While his opponents howled what a clown he was...
韦恩·斯莱特（Wayne Slater），记者：当他的对手们大喊他是个小丑时……
SOT, Bush: I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully.
SOT，布什：我知道人类和鱼类可以和平共处。
Wayne Slater, Journalist: ...he never really worried that this was going to cost him a single vote.
记者韦恩·斯莱特：……他从来没有真正担心这会让他失去一票。
People were gonna vote for him because he, George W.
人们会投票给他，因为他，乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush, why he’s just like we are.
布什，为什么他和我们一样。
Eugene Robinson, Journalist: If you think about it, it is quite a trick for this man who was born to wealth and power in the sort of most exclusive eschalon of American society, to somehow convince a lot of voters that he was just a regular guy.
尤金·罗宾逊，记者：如果你想一想，对于这个出生在美国社会最排外阶层的财富和权力的人来说，以某种方式让很多选民相信他只是一个普通人，这真是一个诡计。
Narrator: His missteps also played into a key strategy - one that had served Bush well for much of his political life - to set expectations low and consistently surpass them.
旁白：他的失误也影响了布什的一项关键战略——这一战略在布什政治生涯的大部分时间里都发挥了重要作用——降低期望并不断超越期望。
But Bush knew his inexperience was a vulnerability, particularly on foreign policy and national security.
但布什知道他的经验不足是一个弱点，特别是在外交政策和国家安全方面。
Bush: Uh the new Prime Minister of India is uh…
布什：呃，印度新总理是呃……
uh no.
呃不。
Narrator: He’d need to compensate by weighing his ticket with a seasoned Vice President, someone with unquestionable bona fides.
旁白：他需要与一位经验丰富的副总统一起权衡自己的选票，而副总统是一个有着无可置疑的诚意的人。
SOT, Bush: So I’m proud to announce that Dick Cheney, a man of great integrity, sound judgement and experience is my choice to be the next Vice President of the United States.
SOT，布什：我很自豪地宣布，我选择迪克·切尼作为下一任美国副总统，他是一位正直、判断力强、经验丰富的人。
Narrator: For Bush, there was only one choice: Dick Cheney, a veteran of Congress who had served as his father’s Secretary of Defense.
旁白：对于布什来说，只有一个选择：迪克·切尼，一位国会资深人士，曾担任他父亲的国防部长。
Robert Draper, Journalist: There’s no question as to what drew Bush to Dick Cheney.
记者罗伯特·德雷珀：毫无疑问，是什么吸引了布什走向迪克·切尼。
There were two qualities.
有两种品质。
First, Cheney was experienced.
首先，切尼经验丰富。
Second, Cheney did not have presidential ambitions.
其次，切尼没有当总统的野心。
So Bush would never have to look over his shoulder.
因此布什永远不必回头看。
Narrator: After initially declining, Cheney finally agreed, but only after extracting a pledge that he would be given unprecedented power and access.
旁白：在最初拒绝之后，切尼最终同意了，但前提是他承诺将获得前所未有的权力和访问权限。
Barton Gellman, Journalist: He would be welcome in any meeting, that he would have a strong voice in foreign policy, defense policy, economic policies.
巴顿·盖尔曼（Barton Gellman），记者：他在任何会议上都会受到欢迎，因为他在外交政策、国防政策、经济政策方面都有强有力的发言权。
He turned it into a much more attractive job before he accepted it.
在接受之前，他把它变成了一份更有吸引力的工作。
Narrator: While the selection of Cheney lent gravitas to the ticket, Bush still needed to prove that he could go toe to toe with Gore.
旁白：虽然切尼的当选给竞选带来了庄重感，但布什仍然需要证明他可以与戈尔正面交锋。
The public saw the two men square off in the first of three nationally televised debates.
公众看到这两个人在三场全国电视辩论中的第一场中展开对决。
As Bush took to the stage, expectations were at historic lows, exactly where he and Rove wanted them.
当布什走上舞台时，人们的期望值处于历史最低点，这正是他和罗夫所希望的。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: The most decisive moments in a presidential campaign always seem to come down to the debates.
白宫通讯主任丹·巴特利特：总统竞选中最具决定性的时刻似乎总是取决于辩论。
That’s really where Al Gore really got pretty bollocksed up.
这确实是阿尔·戈尔真正搞砸的地方。
SOT, Bush: Well, we do come from different places.
SOT、布什：嗯，我们确实来自不同的地方。
I come from West Texas.
我来自德克萨斯州西部。
Peter Baker, Journalist: Al Gore is seen rolling his eyes and sighing at the things that George W.
记者彼得·贝克 (Peter Baker)：人们看到阿尔·戈尔 (Al Gore) 对乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush is saying and kind of looking down at Bush, who of course is not as practiced or as knowledgeable about national and international issues as Gore is.
布什这样说，有点瞧不起布什，他当然不像戈尔那样对国内和国际问题有经验或了解。
It looked kind of, you know, condescending and unappealing.
你知道，它看起来有点居高临下，毫无吸引力。
Narrator: As election day approached, polls showed that Gore’s once significant lead had vanished, and Bush had vaulted ahead.
旁白：随着选举日的临近，民意调查显示，戈尔一度显着的领先优势已经消失，布什一跃领先。
The mood in Bush’s camp was ecstatic.
布什阵营的气氛欣喜若狂。
Then, with just days remaining, a long-buried secret suddenly surfaced in the national media.
然后，就在剩下几天的时间里，一个埋藏已久的秘密突然在全国媒体上浮出水面。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: It was actually a staffer on my team who came to me.
白宫通讯主任丹·巴特利特：实际上是我团队的一名工作人员来找我的。
And he says hey, Bartlett, you're not going to believe this, but there’s this Fox affiliate up there who claims that they have evidence of a DUI.
他说嘿，巴特利特，你不会相信这一点，但是福克斯的附属机构声称他们有酒后驾车的证据。
SOT, Bush: Obviously there’s a report out there tonight that 24 years ago, I was apprehended in Kennebunkport, Maine for a DUI.
SOT，布什：显然今晚有一份报道称，24 年前，我因酒后驾车在缅因州肯纳邦克波特被捕。
That’s an accurate story.
这是一个准确的故事。
I’m not proud of that.
我并不为此感到自豪。
I’ve often times said that years ago I made some mistakes, occasionally drank too much, and I did on that night.
我经常说，几年前我犯了一些错误，偶尔喝了太多酒，那天晚上我就这么做了。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: : We always knew this was going to be close.
白宫通讯总监 Dan Bartlett：我们一直都知道事情会很接近。
But there was a sense that weekend when you saw the polling numbers, that this hurt and that this was gonna make it a real nail-biter.
但那个周末，当你看到民意调查数字时，有一种感觉，这很伤人，而且这会让它变得真正令人紧张。
Narrator: The 11th hour revelation had hurt Bush, but no one knew exactly how much.
旁白：第 11 个小时的爆料对布什造成了伤害，但没有人知道具体伤害有多大。
On election night, Bush retreated to Texas with his family to watch the returns.
选举之夜，布什与家人撤退到德克萨斯州观看选举结果。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: He was at the Governor’s Mansion.
卡尔·罗夫，高级顾问：他在州长官邸。
He’s surrounded by family and friends.
他周围都是家人和朋友。
I was in my office at the campaign.
竞选期间我在办公室里。
Early returns come in obviously, Indiana, Kentucky, we’re looking okay, we’re looking good.
很明显，早期回报到来了，印第安纳州、肯塔基州，我们看起来还不错，我们看起来不错。
But Florida, you know, Jeb had been nervous about Florida, and we’re watching Florida and then we get the early call on Florida.
但是佛罗里达州，你知道，杰布一直对佛罗里达州感到紧张，我们正在关注佛罗里达州，然后我们会提前接到佛罗里达州的电话。
News SOT: A big call to make.
新闻 SOT：需要做出重大决定。
CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column.
美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 宣布我们在阿尔·戈尔 (Al Gore) 专栏中称呼佛罗里达州。
This is a state both campaigns desperately wanted to win.
这是两个竞选阵营都迫切希望赢得的局面。
JOSH BOLTEN, Chief of Staff: Karl believed, and persuaded all of us, that the networks were – were getting it wrong.
乔什·博尔滕（Josh BOLTEN），参谋长：卡尔相信并说服了我们所有人，电视网正在犯错误。
Peter Baker, Journalist: They called it for Gore at first and that looked like it was it.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker），记者：他们一开始把它称为戈尔，看起来就是这样。
That looked like it was over.
看起来一切都结束了。
News SOT: Stand by.
新闻 SOT：待命。
Stand by.
支持。
CNN, right now, is moving our earlier declaration of Florida back to the too-close-to-call column.
美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 现在正在将我们之前对佛罗里达州的声明移回“势均力敌”栏目。
Josh Bolten, Chief of Staff: Projections start changing and it goes to, we don't know, Florida is a toss-up.
乔什·博尔滕（Josh Bolten），参谋长：预测开始发生变化，我们不知道，佛罗里达州是一个难以抉择的事情。
And then one of the networks came out and called it for Bush.
然后其中一个电视网出面称其为布什。
News SOT: At 18 minutes past 2 o’clock eastern time, CNN declares that George Walker Bush has won Florida’s 25 electoral votes.
SOT新闻：美国东部时间2点18分，CNN宣布乔治·沃克·布什赢得佛罗里达州25张选举人票。
Josh Bolten, Chief of Staff: And I remember catching Karl Rove’s eye.
乔什·博尔滕（Josh Bolten），幕僚长：我记得我吸引了卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove）的目光。
Even he, at that moment, thought that the networks had been premature.
就连他，在那一刻也认为网络还为时过早。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: It’s one thing to remove the call for Gore, it’s another thing to call a state for Bush.
卡尔·罗夫，高级顾问：取消对戈尔的呼吁是一回事，为布什呼吁建立一个州是另一回事。
I don’t see where that’s coming from.
我不明白那是从哪里来的。
But it’s clear Florida’s gonna be tight, tight, tight, tight, tight.
但很明显佛罗里达州会很紧张，很紧张，很紧张，很紧张，很紧张。
Narrator: Certain he’d lost an agonizingly close race, Al Gore called Bush to concede the election.
旁白：阿尔·戈尔确信自己在一场势均力敌的竞选中落败，他打电话给布什，要求他承认选举失败。
Peter Baker, Journalist: Bush graciously accepts it and says you ran a good race.
记者彼得·贝克：布什慷慨地接受了这一点，并说你跑得很好。
Thanks very much.
非常感谢。
But suddenly it’s not over.
但突然事情还没结束。
Suddenly, there are more numbers coming in.
突然，又有更多的人涌进来。
News SOT, Dan Rather: Call a doctor, call the police, call a psychic.
新闻 SOT，丹·拉瑟：打电话给医生，打电话给警察，打电话给通灵者。
In Florida it’s tightened up.
在佛罗里达州，情况更加严格。
Only 37,000 votes now separate George Bush and Al Gore.
乔治·布什和阿尔·戈尔现在仅相差 37,000 票。
49% to 49%.
49% 到 49%。
Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President: : And then all of a sudden the phone rang again.
总统顾问凯伦·休斯：：突然电话又响了。
And I remember hearing him just sort of incredulously saying, “you're retracting your concession?” It was unimaginable!
我记得听到他有点难以置信地说：“你要收回你的让步？”简直难以想象！
News SOT: The Vice President has re-called the Governor and retracted his concession.
新闻 SOT：副总统已召回总督并收回了他的让步。
Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President: The last two months of a campaign, it feels like you're running a marathon and the only thing that gets you through those last two months is the knowledge that come election day, win or lose, at least it's over.
总统顾问凯伦·休斯：竞选的最后两个月，感觉就像是在跑一场马拉松，唯一能让你度过最后两个月的就是知道选举日到来时，无论输赢，至少一切都结束了。
And they're basically saying, keep running and we'll let you know when you can stop.
他们基本上是说，继续跑，我们会告诉你什么时候可以停下来。
News SOT: Alright we’re officially saying that Florida is too close to call because of a recall.
新闻 SOT：好吧，我们正式宣布佛罗里达州因召回而无法确定。
Campaign and vote counters are being called back to work to count absentee ballots.
竞选和计票员正在被召回工作以清点缺席选票。
Will that be going on…?
会这样吗……？
Michael Gerson, Chief Speechwriter: A speechwriter has to be prepared for any eventuality.
Michael Gerson，首席演讲撰稿人：演讲撰稿人必须为任何可能发生的情况做好准备。
We were prepared for victory, we were prepared for defeat, but we were not prepared for that outcome.
我们为胜利做好了准备，我们为失败做好了准备，但我们没有为那个结果做好准备。
Narrator: By dawn the next morning, the country’s future leadership was no clearer.
旁白：到第二天黎明时分，国家未来的领导层还没有变得更加清晰。
SOT, Bush: We were fully prepared to go out and give a speech thanking my supporters.
SOT，布什：我们已经做好充分准备，可以出去发表演讲，感谢我的支持者。
He withdrew his earlier comments, and here we sit.
他撤回了之前的评论，我们就坐在这里。
Narrator: Overnight counting had narrowed Bush’s lead to less than 1,800 votes out of nearly six million cast – a statistical dead heat.
旁白：隔夜计票将布什的领先优势缩小到了近 600 万票中的不到 1,800 张——统计上不分胜负。
The race was so close that a machine recount was ordered for all of Florida’s sixty-seven counties.
竞选结果非常接近，以至于佛罗里达州所有 67 个县都被机器重新计票。
SOT, Bush: I feel like a man who worked my heart out, put out a positive message, and uh, a person who is looking forward to a quick resolution of the ballots in the State of Florida.
SOT，布什：我感觉自己是一个竭尽全力、发出积极信息的人，呃，一个期待佛罗里达州选票快速解决的人。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: But it was, uh, it was like up and down, up and down, up and down.
Karl Rove，高级顾问：但是，呃，就像上下，上下，上下。
And the skies over Tallahassee were filled with jets of personal injury trial lawyers, delivering tons of lawyers to Florida.
塔拉哈西的上空布满了人身伤害审判律师的飞机，将大量律师运送到佛罗里达州。
And the battle is on.
战斗已经开始。
Narrator: Much of the disputes centered on the minutiae of imperfectly cast ballots -- holes that hadn’t been fully punched through, lines that hadn’t been fully connected.
旁白：很多争议都集中在选票不完美的细节上——没有完全打通的漏洞，没有完全连接的线条。
Millions of Americans learned the phrase “hanging chad” – the dangling bit of paper that only vaguely hinted at a voter’s intentions.
数以百万计的美国人学会了“hanging chad”这个短语——那张悬挂着的纸片，只能模糊地暗示选民的意图。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: Tens of thousands of ballots that were incorrectly marked.
记者劳伦斯·赖特：数以万计的选票被错误标记。
And if you counted them one way, Bush would win.
如果你以一种方式计算，布什就会获胜。
If you counted them in another way, Gore would win.
如果你用另一种方式来计算的话，戈尔会赢。
Narrator: By November 10th, Bush’s lead had dwindled to a mere 327 votes.
旁白：到11月10日，布什的领先优势已经缩小到只有327票。
Peter Baker, Journalist: They’ve got the lead.
记者彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：他们处于领先地位。
Their demand is to shut down any recounts.
他们的要求是停止任何重新计票。
The minute that lead switches they lose the argument they have, which is that they’re ahead and that the other guy is trying to steal the election.
一旦领先优势改变，他们就失去了自己的论点，即他们领先，而另一个人试图窃取选举结果。
SOT, Protesters: Hey, Al, get out of Cheney’s house!
SOT，抗议者：嘿，艾尔，离开切尼的房子！
Hey, Al, get out of Cheney’s house!
嘿，阿尔，滚出切尼的房子！
News SOT: Both sides are getting more frustrated at each other by the day.
新闻 SOT：双方都对彼此越来越感到沮丧。
Narrator: As the battle over the White House dragged on, Bush retreated to his ranch, a 1600-acre expanse of canyons, ponds and cedar forests near Crawford, Texas.
旁白：随着白宫争夺战持续下去，布什撤退到了他的牧场，这是德克萨斯州克劳福德附近占地 1600 英亩的峡谷、池塘和雪松林。
Michael Gerson, Chief Speechwriter: I remember him showing me his arms, which were covered with scratches from clearing cedar on his ranch and I think taking out a lot of frustration on the...on vegetation.
迈克尔·格尔森（Michael Gerson），首席演讲撰稿人：我记得他向我展示了他的手臂，上面布满了在他的牧场上清理雪松时留下的划痕，我认为他在植被上消除了很多挫败感。
Narrator: By December, the focus of the recount had shifted to the courts, where a flurry of decisions left both sides declaring victory.
旁白：到了12月，重新计票的焦点已经转移到法庭上，法庭上一系列的判决让双方都宣布胜利。
Finally, on December 11th, the US Supreme Court heard the case.
最终，12月11日，美国最高法院审理了此案。
News SOT: This is a CBS News special report.
新闻 SOT：这是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的特别报道。
Dan Rather at CBS News, World Headquarters in New York.
纽约哥伦比亚广播公司全球总部的丹·拉瑟 (Danrath)。
Good evening.
晚上好。
We are on the air because the United States Supreme Court has reached a decision in the case of Bush versus Gore...
我们播出这个节目是因为美国最高法院就布什诉戈尔案做出了裁决……
Narrator: Thirty six days after the election was held, the Supreme Court ruled that all recounts must stop immediately, thereby preserving Bush’s razor-thin lead.
旁白：选举举行三十六天后，最高法院裁定所有重新计票必须立即停止，从而保持了布什微弱的领先优势。
SOT, Bush: The election was close, but tonight after a count, a recount, and yet another manual recount, Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes to win the election.
布什总统：选举结果很接近，但今晚经过一次计票、一次重新计票和另一次手动重新计票后，切尼国务卿和我为赢得佛罗里达州感到荣幸和谦卑，这为我们提供了赢得选举所需的选举人票。
We will therefore undertake the responsibility of preparing to serve as America’s next President and Vice President.
因此，我们将承担起准备担任美国下一任总统和副总统的责任。
Narrator: On January 20th, 2001, in a chilly Washington drizzle, George W.
旁白：2001年1月20日，华盛顿阴雨绵绵，乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush was inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States.
布什就任美国第 43 任总统。
Few presidents had come into office facing greater doubts about their legitimacy.
很少有总统在就职时面临对其合法性的更大质疑。
Maria Shriver, News SOT: Tom, the protesting is now very intense as we’re coming up here screaming “Fraud, Bush stole the election.” The police are now in about three or four rows deep along here trying to push back protesters.
玛丽亚·施赖弗（Maria Shriver），新闻 SOT：汤姆，抗议活动现在非常激烈，因为我们来到这里尖叫着“欺诈，布什窃取了选举”。警察现在在这里排成三四排，试图击退抗议者。
Police are in riot gear, a lot of screaming, a lot of pushing, a lot of yelling.
警察全副武装，大声尖叫、推搡、大喊大叫。
It’s hard to tell exactly how much the President can see but he can hear all of this ...
很难确切地说总统能看到多少，但他能听到这一切……
Eugene Robinson, Journalist: The division was so bitter and neither side really won.
尤金·罗宾逊，记者：这场比赛非常激烈，双方都没有真正获胜。
The decision was made by the Supreme Court.
该决定是由最高法院做出的。
It’s like a fight that never really got resolved and I think that we’ve been in our corners ever since.
这就像一场从未真正解决的战斗，我认为从那时起我们就一直处于困境。
SOT, protesters: Racist, sexist, anti-gay!
SOT，抗议者：种族主义、性别歧视、反同性恋！
Bush and Cheney go away!
布什和切尼走开！
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: The mood of the country, obviously the mood of the opposition party it was raw, you could feel it, it was palpable in Washington DC.
丹·巴特利特，白宫通讯主任：这个国家的情绪，显然是反对党的情绪，它是原始的，你可以感觉到，在华盛顿特区是显而易见的。
There were going to be a part of the public, and a large part of the opposition party that there was always in their mind going to be an asterisk on this presidency.
将会有一部分公众和很大一部分反对党在他们的心目中始终将这个总统职位打上星号。
Narrator: As he addressed the largest crowd he had ever faced, Bush sought to calm the frayed nerves of the country.
旁白：当布什向他所面对的最大规模的人群发表讲话时，他试图安抚全国紧张的神经。
SOT, Bush: And sometimes, our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent but not a country.
SOT，布什：有时，我们的分歧如此之深，似乎我们共享一个大陆，但不是一个国家。
We do not accept this.
我们不接受这一点。
And we will not allow it.
我们不会允许这样做。
David Frum, Speechwriter: We could not say, “That’s the job the American people elected us to do.” You couldn’t say that, because the American people had, in their totality, preferred the other guy.
演讲撰稿人大卫·弗鲁姆：我们不能说，“这是美国人民选举我们来做的工作。”你不能这么说，因为美国人民总体上更喜欢另一个人。
That was something that we were conscious of.
这是我们意识到的事情。
SOT, Bush: Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion, and character.
布什总统：今天，我们重申一项新的承诺，即通过文明、勇气、同情心和品格来兑现我们国家的承诺。
Narrator: Even as he pursued reconciliation, Bush was eager to quickly assert control.
旁白：尽管布什追求和解，但他仍渴望迅速掌握控制权。
But the mechanisms of government, particularly foreign policy, were still mysterious.
但政府机制，特别是外交政策，仍然是神秘的。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: His father was one of the most experienced people in foreign affairs.
劳伦斯·赖特（Lawrence Wright），记者：他的父亲是外交事务中最有经验的人之一。
And George Bush was untraveled and, and not interested.
乔治·布什没有出过国，而且也不感兴趣。
So he picked people to do that part of the job for him.
所以他挑选了一些人来为他完成这部分工作。
Narrator: As Secretary of Defense, Bush named Dick Cheney’s mentor, Donald Rumsfeld, who had held the same job under President Gerald Ford.
旁白：作为国防部长，布什任命迪克·切尼的导师唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德为国防部长，他曾在杰拉尔德·福特总统的领导下担任过同样的职务。
Rumsfeld brought with him to the Pentagon a coterie of advisors known as “neo-conservatives”, foremost among them his deputy Paul Wolfowitz.
拉姆斯菲尔德带着一群被称为“新保守派”的顾问来到五角大楼，其中最重要的是他的副手保罗·沃尔福威茨。
The neo-cons ardently believed in the spread of American power and values through military strength.
新保守派坚信通过军事力量传播美国的力量和价值观。
James Mann, Writer: Their view was that the United States had enough power to exert its will, at least on any major issue.
詹姆斯·曼（James Mann），作家：他们的观点是，美国有足够的力量来表达自己的意愿，至少在任何重大问题上都是如此。
The emphasis was particularly on military power, as opposed to diplomacy.
重点特别是军事力量，而不是外交。
There was a mistrust of diplomacy and international institutions.
人们对外交和国际机构不信任。
Narrator: While a neo-conservative enclave was forming in the Pentagon, Bush named a moderate, Condoleeza Rice, to be his National Security Advisor.
旁白：当五角大楼正在形成新保守派飞地时，布什任命温和派康多莉扎·赖斯担任他的国家安全顾问。
At the State Department, he appointed one of his father’s most trusted advisors, General Colin Powell.
在国务院，他任命了他父亲最信任的顾问之一科林·鲍威尔将军。
Karen Deyoung, Journalist: He was a person of great stature.
凯伦·德扬（Karen Deyoung），记者：他是一个很有地位的人。
He had military experience.
他有军事经验。
He was widely respected across the country.
他在全国范围内受到广泛尊重。
He could calm a lot of people, certainly Republican moderates who felt that Bush was getting his advice from people who were pretty far over to the right of a neoconservative bent.
他可以安抚很多人，当然是共和党温和派，他们认为布什是从新保守主义倾向相当右的人那里得到建议的。
SOT, Bush: General Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet.
SOT，布什：鲍威尔将军是一个坚强的人物，迪克·切尼也不是胆怯的人。
But neither is Don Rumsfeld.
但唐·拉姆斯菲尔德也不是。
Nor Condi Rice.
康迪·赖斯也没有。
I view the four as being able to compliment each other.
我认为这四个人能够互相恭维。
Narrator: This arrangement – Rumsfeld and the neo-cons at Defense; Powell and moderates at State – established a lasting fault line in the administration’s foreign policy.
旁白：这种安排——拉姆斯菲尔德和国防部的新保守派；鲍威尔和国务院的温和派在政府的外交政策中建立了持久的断层线。
Josh Bolten, Chief Of Staff: I don’t think President Bush’s intentionally went for a team of rivals.
乔什·博尔滕，幕僚长：我不认为布什总统有意选择一个竞争对手团队。
I think he went for a team of strong members.
我认为他选择了一支由强大成员组成的团队。
And if that meant they were rivals, so be it.
如果这意味着他们是竞争对手，那就这样吧。
But he came into office not lacking in confidence about his own position and his own abilities to sort out good advice.
但他上任后并不缺乏对自己的地位和自己提出良好建议的能力的信心。
Timothy Naftali, Historian: This is in a way, a dream team, although when people made that argument, they forgot that no group of smart, articulate foreign policy experts agrees, usually.
蒂莫西·纳夫塔利（Timothy Naftali），历史学家：在某种程度上，这是一个梦之队，尽管当人们提出这一论点时，他们忘记了通常没有一群聪明、善于表达的外交政策专家会同意这一点。
And what you need is a president who can make the decision.
你需要的是一位能够做出决定的总统。
Barbara Perry, Historian: There was this vacuum for George Bush about his foreign policy, his defense policy.
历史学家芭芭拉·佩里：乔治·布什的外交政策和国防政策存在真空。
He had no ideology in those spaces.
他在那些空间里没有意识形态。
And so those with strong views obviously saw the opening or the vacuum there and they filled it.
因此，那些有强烈观点的人显然看到了那里的空缺或真空，并填补了它。
Narrator: But the foreign entanglements which were to define Bush’s presidency were nowhere in sight as he took office in January, 2001.
旁白：但是，当布什 2001 年 1 月上任时，他的总统任期中的外交纠葛还没有出现。
With the country peaceful and prosperous, Bush could focus on the domestic agenda on which he had campaigned.
随着国家的和平与繁荣，布什可以专注于他竞选的国内议程。
In May, he pushed through a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cut with provisions to help all taxpayers, but especially the wealthy.
5月，他推动了1.3万亿美元的减税计划，其中包括帮助所有纳税人，特别是富人的条款。
He also moved forward on education reform with the help of Massachusetts Democratic Ted Kennedy.
他还在马萨诸塞州民主党人特德·肯尼迪的帮助下推进了教育改革。
George Bush had been elected on a very clear mandate.
乔治·布什是根据非常明确的授权当选的。
He was going to cut taxes, he was going to institute certain education reforms, and he was going to continue on the debt reduction path that Bill Clinton had put the country on.
他要减税，他要实行某些教育改革，他要继续走比尔·克林顿让国家走上的债务削减道路。
The tax cut is passed.
减税法案通过了。
The education bill is well on the way.
教育法案正在顺利进行中。
The debt reduction was going to continue as long as the prosperity continued.
只要繁荣持续下去，债务削减就会继续下去。
And by August you had this tremendous feeling of “now what?”
到了八月，你就有了一种“现在怎么办？”的强烈感觉。
News SOT: At the White House today, the President gathered his cabinet to mark what he calls six months of accomplishments.
SOT 新闻：今天，总统在白宫召集内阁成员，纪念他所说的六个月的成就。
The President starts a month long vacation tomorrow, the longest of any president since Richard Nixon.
总统明天将开始为期一个月的长假，这是自理查德·尼克松以来历届总统中最长的一次。
Narrator: By the summer of 2001, his presidency seemed to be going so well that Bush took an extended vacation at his Texas ranch.
旁白：到了 2001 年夏天，布什的总统任期似乎进展顺利，以至于他在德克萨斯州的牧场度过了一个长假。
SOT, Bush: Coming out here makes you realize that Washington is a wonderful place but it’s certainly not the center of all wisdom and knowledge.
SOT，布什：来到这里会让你意识到华盛顿是一个美妙的地方，但它肯定不是所有智慧和知识的中心。
Narrator: He fished, cut wood, and enjoyed his time away from Washington.
旁白：他钓鱼、砍柴，享受着远离华盛顿的时光。
Bush continued to receive daily intelligence briefings during his vacation, but he did not seem particularly concerned by an August 6th briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
布什在假期期间继续每天收到情报简报，但他似乎并不特别担心 8 月 6 日题为“本拉登决心袭击美国”的简报。
Ever since taking office, Bush had received regular reports about the activities of the terrorist group Al Qaeda led by a Saudi millionaire named Osama Bin Laden.
自上任以来，布什经常收到有关沙特百万富翁奥萨马·本·拉登领导的恐怖组织“基地”组织活动的报告。
Ron Suskind, Journalist: The bells are ringing in the intelligence community.
罗恩·苏斯金德，记者：情报界的钟声已经敲响。
Red alerts.
红色警报。
They don’t know specifically what it is, but they can see the activation of a whole array of people that they follow.
他们不知道具体是什么，但他们可以看到他们所关注的一大群人的激活。
Bush doesn't want to hear it.
布什不想听。
Richard Clarke, Counter-Terrorism Coordinator: : We heard from a number of intelligence sources, that a major attack was being planned by Al Qaeda.
理查德·克拉克（Richard Clarke），反恐协调员：我们从多个情报来源获悉，基地组织正在策划一次重大袭击。
As the summer went on, we thought perhaps it would occur around July the Fourth.
随着夏天的推移，我们认为这可能会发生在七月四号左右。
When July the Fourth passed, and there was no attack, I think some people in the Bush administration thought “uh well, we were wrong.
当“七四”过去并且没有发生袭击时，我认为布什政府中的一些人认为“呃，我们错了。
We were making this all up.”
这一切都是我们编造的。”
Narrator: : President Bush wasn’t alone in failing to appreciate the threat Al Qaeda posed.
旁白：：布什总统并不是唯一一个未能认识到基地组织所构成威胁的人。
His more seasoned National Security team also took little note of the warnings they received that summer.
他经验丰富的国家安全团队也几乎没有注意到他们那年夏天收到的警告。
Timothy Naftali, Historian: : These old dinosaurs of U.S. foreign policy, were stuck in a time warp.
历史学家蒂莫西·纳夫塔利 (Timothy Naftali)：：这些美国外交政策的老古董，陷入了时间扭曲。
They're not mentally flexible enough to understand the world has changed since they were in office.
他们的思维不够灵活，无法理解自他们上任以来世界已经发生的变化。
They were thinking about the Cold War, where states were the source of threat.
他们正在思考冷战时期，国家是威胁的来源。
They dismissed these non-state actors, these shadowy groups.
他们驳斥了这些非国家行为者、这些影子团体。
That was one of the flaws in W's thinking.
这是W想法的缺陷之一。
That bringing old veterans in would be useful in a time of change.
在变革时期，引进老退伍军人将会很有用。
It wasn't.
事实并非如此。
It was the opposite.
事实恰恰相反。
Narrator: : In the days after the attacks on September 11, a pall descended over much of Washington.
旁白： ：9 月 11 日袭击事件发生后的几天里，华盛顿大部分地区笼罩着一层阴影。
Robert Draper, Journalist: : The belief was not only strong.
记者罗伯特·德雷珀 (Robert Draper)：这种信念不仅坚定。
It was a near certainty that a next wave of attacks was going to happen.
几乎可以肯定，下一波攻击将会发生。
There were credible threats on the President and on the White House that took place, day after day.
总统和白宫日复一日地面临着可信的威胁。
David Frum, Speechwriter: : This city was in the grip of wild rumors.
演讲撰稿人大卫·弗鲁姆 (David Frum)： 这座城市充斥着疯狂的谣言。
I remember having a thought every time I walked through downtown.
我记得每次走过市中心时都会有一个想法。
Is this the day a car bomb goes off?
今天是汽车炸弹爆炸的日子吗？
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, CIA Counter-Terrorism Expert: Our perception wasn’t just that they had conducted this incredible attack directly against the United States, it was that they could even do something bigger in the future like use nuclear weapons or biological weapons.
中央情报局反恐专家罗尔夫·莫瓦特-拉森：我们的看法不仅是他们直接针对美国进行了这次令人难以置信的袭击，而且他们甚至可以在未来做出更大的事情，例如使用核武器或生物武器。
That suddenly became a reality.
这突然成为了现实。
Narrator: : The terrorist threat Bush had dismissed only weeks earlier now consumed him.
旁白：布什几周前还驳斥了恐怖主义威胁，现在却让他心力交瘁。
He instructed his national security staff to inform him of any possible attack, no matter how unlikely.
他指示他的国家安全人员将任何可能的袭击通知他，无论可能性有多大。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefer: : We put together, what we called the “threat matrix” that listed every single threat report, where it came from, who the source was, what was being done about it, what kind of credibility we gave to it and we would begin the briefing by him going through it.
迈克尔·莫雷尔（Michael Morell），中央情报局总统每日简报：我们将所谓的“威胁矩阵”放在一起，其中列出了每一份威胁报告，它来自哪里，消息来源是谁，正在采取什么措施，我们给予它什么样的可信度，然后我们将由他来开始简报。
“Michael, tell me about number 21.
“迈克尔，告诉我关于 21 号的事情。
Michael, tell me about number 45.”
迈克尔，告诉我 45 号的事。”
Narrator: Bush struggled to conceal his own grief and worry.
旁白：布什努力掩饰自己的悲伤和担忧。
“I could see the lines cut deeper in his face,“ Laura said, “and I knew he was lying awake next to me at night.”
“我可以看到他脸上的皱纹更深了，”劳拉说，“我知道他晚上躺在我身边，睡不着觉。”
SOT, Bush: : I am a loving guy, and I’m also someone, however, who’s got a job to do, and I intend to do it.
SOT，布什：我是一个有爱心的人，但我也是一个有工作要做的人，而且我打算这样做。
And um, this is a terrible moment.
嗯，这是一个可怕的时刻。
Michael Gerson, Chief Speechwriter: : He was not conveying what he wanted to convey, this message of strength.
首席演讲撰稿人迈克尔·格尔森：：他没有传达他想传达的信息，即力量的信息。
Colin Powell sent him a note, essentially saying “Don’t show too much emotion in public.” The President read the note in front of everyone who was assembled at a cabinet meeting and said “Don’t worry, I’m not losing it.”
科林·鲍威尔给他发了一张便条，大意是“不要在公共场合表现出太多情绪”。总统在内阁会议上的所有人面前宣读了这张纸条，并说：“别担心，我不会失去它。”
Narrator: : Above all, Bush felt he had let the country down, and he was determined never to do so again.
旁白：：最重要的是，布什觉得他让国家失望了，他决心不再这样做。
“I felt my responsibility was clear,” he later confessed.
“我觉得我的责任很明确，”他后来承认。
“I would pour my heart and soul into protecting the country, whatever it took."
“无论付出什么代价，我都会全心全意地保护国家。”
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefer: : He told me that his number one job was to protect the American people, and he told me that he failed on 9/11 and that he could not let that happen again.
迈克尔·莫雷尔 (Michael Morell)，《中央情报局每日简报》总统简报：他告诉我，他的首要工作是保护美国人民，他还告诉我，他在 9/11 事件中失败了，他不能让这种情况再次发生。
Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor: : While he campaigned as a domestic president, he was now going to be a wartime president.
国家安全顾问斯蒂芬·哈德利：虽然他以国内总统身份竞选，但现在他将成为战时总统。
He had to get the country ready for what was going to be a long struggle.
他必须让国家为这场长期斗争做好准备。
Narrator: : Three days after the attack, Bush rose early for a day that would test his leadership as few others; a day to console the country in its grief, while also giving voice to its anger.
旁白： 袭击发生三天后，布什早起，这一天对他的领导力进行了极少的考验。这是一个安慰国家悲痛同时也表达愤怒的日子。
That morning, he attended a service at the National Cathedral before an extraordinary assemblage of dignitaries, including his parents.
那天早上，他参加了在国家大教堂举行的仪式，出席仪式的包括他的父母在内的众多政要。
SOT, Bush National Cathedral Address: : Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.
SOT，布什国家大教堂地址：：我们对历史的责任已经很明确：回应这些袭击并消除世界上的邪恶。
War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder.
战争是通过秘密、欺骗和谋杀来对付我们的。
This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.
这个国家爱好和平，但一旦被激怒，就会变得凶猛。
Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President: : And I remember him telling me he didn’t want to look at his family because he knew that if they were in tears, he would break down.
总统顾问凯伦·休斯：我记得他告诉我他不想看着他的家人，因为他知道如果他们流泪，他就会崩溃。
And so he was, I think, trying to look generally over people’s heads in order not to let the emotions of the moment overcome him.
所以，我认为，他试图从总体上审视人们的头脑，以免让当下的情绪压倒他。
SOT, Bush National Cathedral Address: : It is said that adversity introduces us to ourselves.
SOT，布什国家大教堂 地址： ：据说逆境让我们认识自己。
This is true of a nation as well.
对于一个民族来说也是如此。
Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director: : He was very much embracing and understanding the moment in history, what it was going to require of him.
白宫通讯主任丹·巴特利特：他非常拥抱并理解这一历史时刻，以及这对他的要求。
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor: : I don’t know where he summoned it, I don’t know where, because that was a tough moment for anybody.
卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove），高级顾问：：我不知道他在哪里召唤它，我不知道在哪里，因为那对任何人来说都是一个艰难的时刻。
He sits back down and his father takes his hand and squeezes it.
他坐回原位，父亲握住他的手并握紧。
I mean, he did it.
我的意思是，他做到了。
He did what he needed to do.
他做了他需要做的事。
The pride of a father seeing his son in that awesome moment of responsibility and then the son feeling the support and confidence of his parents.
父亲看到儿子在这个伟大的责任时刻感到自豪，然后儿子感受到父母的支持和信任。
Narrator: : Later that day, the President traveled to New York to visit the wreckage of the World Trade Center for the first time.
旁白： ：当天晚些时候，总统首次前往纽约参观世贸中心的废墟。
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary: : Five miles out, you could actually smell the burning, the ashes, three days later.
新闻秘书阿里·弗莱舍 (Ari Fleischer)：三天后，五英里外，你实际上可以闻到燃烧的味道和灰烬的味道。
That was the first thing all of us noticed.
这是我们所有人注意到的第一件事。
Andy Card, Chief of Staff: Police barricades are up.
安迪·卡德，参谋长：警察路障已竖起。
People behind the barricades are all wearing hardhats, and the President says “I want to stop and get out.”
路障后面的人都戴着安全帽，总统说“我想停下来出去”。
Narrator: : Although no public remarks had been scheduled, Bush grabbed a bullhorn and climbed atop the ruins of a firetruck.
旁白：：尽管没有安排公开讲话，布什还是抓起了扩音器，爬上了消防车的废墟。
SOT, President Bush at Ground Zero: : As we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.
SOT，布什总统在归零地：当我们哀悼成千上万的公民丧生时。
Person : We can’t hear you!
人：我们听不到你的声音！
President Bush: I can hear you!
布什总统：我能听到你的声音！
I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you – and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
我能听到你的声音，世界其他地方也能听到你的声音——而那些推倒这些建筑物的人很快就会听到我们所有人的声音。
Timothy Naftali, Historian: : This is where George W.
历史学家蒂莫西·纳夫塔利 (Timothy Naftali)：：这是乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush’s talent as a politician was evident.
布什的政治才能是显而易见的。
He wanted to send a signal from there that we were going to rebuild this country.
他想从那里发出一个信号，表明我们将重建这个国家。
That the tearing down the Twin Towers created a, a wound, but it wasn't going to be a scar.
双子塔的拆除造成了伤口，但这不会是疤痕。
That’s where he showed a certain visceral understanding of the American spirit.
这就是他对美国精神表现出某种发自内心的理解的地方。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefer: : I watched him that day turn from a President whose presidency was drifting a little bit to a man with a purpose.
迈克尔·莫雷尔（Michael Morell），《中央情报局总统每日简报》：那天，我看到他从一个总统任期有点偏离的总统变成了一个有目标的人。
I saw him become the Commander in Chief that day.
那天我看到他成为总司令。
Narrator: : On the trip back to Washington, word reached Bush that Congress had voted overwhelmingly to authorize the use of force against those responsible for 9/11.
旁白：：在返回华盛顿的途中，布什得到消息称，国会以压倒性多数投票通过，授权对 9/11 事件的责任人使用武力。
The next day, he convened a meeting of his national security team at Camp David in rural Maryland.
第二天，他在马里兰州乡村的戴维营召开了国家安全团队会议。
By now, U.S. intelligence had confirmed that Al Qaeda had been responsible for the attack, and were being sheltered and supported by the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
目前，美国情报部门已确认基地组织对此次袭击负责，并得到阿富汗塔利班政府的庇护和支持。
SOT, Bush: : We’re going to meet and deliberate and discuss, but there’s no question about it.
SOT、布什：我们将开会、深思熟虑和讨论，但这是毫无疑问的。
This act will not stand.
这种行为是站不住脚的。
We will find those who did it.
我们会找到那些这样做的人。
We will smoke ‘em out of their holes.
我们会把他们从洞里熏出来。
We will get ‘em running.
我们会让他们运行。
And we will bring ‘em to justice.
我们会将他们绳之以法。
Narrator: Some advisors urged Bush to exercise diplomacy, but the President was having none of it.
旁白：一些顾问敦促布什采取外交手段，但总统不予理睬。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefer: : There was breakfast before the policy meeting started, and I was standing with the President and a state department official came over and essentially lobbied the President that we should put pressure on the Taliban to give Bin Laden over to the United States and to kick Al Qaeda out of their country.
迈克尔·莫雷尔，《总统每日中央情报局简报》：政策会议开始前吃早餐，我和总统站在一起，一位国务院官员过来游说总统，要求我们向塔利班施加压力，将本·拉登交给美国，并将基地组织赶出他们的国家。
And the President looked at us and he said, “fuck it, we’re going to war.”
总统看着我们说：“操，我们要开战了。”
The President’s mindset was “they did this, they have the capability to do this and I have to make sure they don't do it again, and the only way to do that is militarily.”
总统的心态是“他们做到了，他们有能力做到这一点，我必须确保他们不再这样做，而做到这一点的唯一方法是军事手段。”
Narrator: : Some members of the administration believed that Afghanistan was the wrong target.
旁白：：一些政府成员认为阿富汗是错误的目标。
Paul Wolfowitz, one of the leading neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, urged Bush to focus military action on what he regarded as the greater threat: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
五角大楼的新保守派领袖之一保罗·沃尔福威茨敦促布什将军事行动的重点放在他认为更大的威胁上：伊拉克独裁者萨达姆·侯赛因。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: They thought that the solution to all problems in the Mideast ran through Baghdad.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：他们认为中东所有问题的解决办法都是通过巴格达。
If we could just get rid of Saddam Hussain it would all fall into place.
如果我们能够除掉萨达姆·侯赛因，一切都会水到渠成。
Karen Deyoung, Journalist: : Wolfowitz and other people I think saw this finally as an opportunity to say “we're going to get Iraq.”
凯伦·德扬（Karen Deyoung），记者：我认为沃尔福威茨和其他人最终认为这是一个机会，可以说“我们将赢得伊拉克”。
Bush, I think wisely and with the advice of others around the table said, you know, maybe someday we'll get to that.
布什，我明智地思考，并根据桌旁其他人的建议说，你知道，也许有一天我们会做到这一点。
But right now people want to know who did it and what are you going to do about it?
但现在人们想知道是谁干的以及你将采取什么措施？
SOT, Bush: : On my orders, the United States Military has begun strikes against Al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
布什总统：根据我的命令，美国军方已开始对阿富汗塔利班政权的基地组织恐怖分子训练营和军事设施进行打击。
Narrator: On October 7th, military operations began in Afghanistan.
旁白：10月7日，阿富汗开始军事行动。
Together with an Afghan rebel force called The Northern Alliance, CIA paramilitary units planned to drive the Taliban out of the capital and capture Osama Bin Laden.
中央情报局准军事部队与阿富汗叛军“北方联盟”一起计划将塔利班赶出首都并抓获奥萨马·本·拉登。
Though confident of victory, Bush’s team understood that Afghanistan posed unique challenges.
尽管布什团队对胜利充满信心，但他们也明白阿富汗面临着独特的挑战。
Elisabeth Bumiller, Journalist: Condi Rice recalls that they put out a big map of Afghanistan it was very rough terrain, very rough territory and she recalls looking at it saying, “Oh my God isn’t that where empires go to die?”
伊丽莎白·布米勒（Elisabeth Bumiller），记者：康迪·赖斯（Condi Rice）回忆说，他们拿出了一张阿富汗大地图，地形非常崎岖，领土非常崎岖，她回忆起当时看着地图时说的：“天哪，这不是帝国灭亡的地方吗？”
Narrator: : At first, progress was slow.
旁白： ：一开始进展缓慢。
As newspapers and pundits wondered whether the US had waded into a quagmire, Bush pressed his aides for answers on why military victories were so hard to come by.
当报纸和专家怀疑美国是否已经陷入泥潭时，布什向他的助手们施压，要求他们回答为什么军事胜利如此难以取得。
Richard Haass, Advisor to Colin Powell: : I began to almost avoid him because I knew his first question was going to be how’s this going?
理查德·哈斯，科林·鲍威尔的顾问：：我开始几乎回避他，因为我知道他的第一个问题将是这是怎么回事？
How’s this going, and he was demonstrably, palpably, visibly, frustrated.
这是怎么回事，他明显地、明显地、明显地感到沮丧。
I was pretty confident that as soon as they had one big military victory that it would be, to use an expression from Vietnam, something of a domino phenomenon.
我非常有信心，一旦他们取得一场重大的军事胜利，用越南的话来说，就会出现多米诺骨牌现象。
It was just getting that first big military victory.
当时刚刚取得了第一次重大军事胜利。
Narrator: : On November 9, US and Northern Alliance forces broke through in Mazar-I-Sharif, a Northern city held by the Taliban for several years.
旁白： 11月9日，美国和北方联盟军队突破塔利班控制多年的北方城市马扎里沙里夫。
Other Taliban strongholds quickly succumbed as well.
塔利班的其他据点也很快被攻陷。
But the military victories created a new problem for which the administration was unprepared: what to do with suspected terrorists captured on the battlefield.
但军事胜利带来了一个令政府措手不及的新问题：如何处理在战场上抓获的恐怖分子嫌疑人。
Karen Deyoung, Journalist: : As they started to gather more detainees in Afghanistan, the question arose, what are you going to do with these people?
记者凯伦·德扬 (Karen Deyoung)：当他们开始在阿富汗聚集更多的被拘留者时，出现了一个问题：您将如何处置这些人？
And there was enormous, uh, urge to get intelligence from them.
人们有强烈的，呃，想要从他们那里获取情报的冲动。
That was the goal.
这就是目标。
Andy Card, Chief of Staff: Remember, there was a tremendous expectation that there were other attacks pending, real-time and that caused the President to face some pretty difficult decisions.
安迪·卡德（Andy Card），幕僚长：请记住，人们对还有其他实时攻击未决的期望很高，这导致总统面临一些相当困难的决定。
How do you detain people?
怎么拘留人呢？
Where do you detain people?
你们把人关在哪里？
How do you get information, and what do you do with what you learned?
您如何获取信息？您如何利用所学到的信息？
Narrator: : For more than half a century, the United States had abided by the Geneva Conventions, rules protecting prisoners of war from abusive treatment.
旁白： 半个多世纪以来，美国一直遵守《日内瓦公约》的规定，保护战俘免受虐待。
But Vice President Dick Cheney and others believed those rules were too restrictive when dealing with possible terrorists in a post 9/11 world.
但副总统迪克·切尼和其他人认为，在 9/11 事件后的世界中，这些规则在应对可能的恐怖分子时限制过于严格。
Barton Gellman, Journalist: : If you gave them the status of prisoners of war, they would be subject to the Geneva Conventions and very strict limits on how you could interrogate them.
记者巴顿·盖尔曼：如果你给予他们战俘地位，他们将受到《日内瓦公约》的约束，并且对审讯他们的方式有非常严格的限制。
All you have to tell the interrogator is your name, rank and serial number.
您只需告诉审讯者您的姓名、军衔和序列号即可。
Cheney and his allies believed they could remove these people from the protections of Geneva.
切尼和他的盟友相信他们可以将这些人从日内瓦的保护中移除。
You were going to have to ask very tough questions with very tough consequences and compulsion in order to get answers from Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners, and that in order to do so you had to deny them the legal status of prisoners of war.
为了从塔利班和基地组织囚犯那里得到答案，你必须提出非常棘手的问题，并带来非常严重的后果和强迫，而为了做到这一点，你必须否认他们战俘的法律地位。
SOT, Cheney: We also have to work the dark side, if you will.
SOT，切尼：如果你愿意的话，我们还必须致力于黑暗面。
Spend time in the shadows of the intelligence world.
花时间在情报世界的阴影中。
A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies if we’re going to be successful.
如果我们想取得成功，这里需要做的很多事情都必须悄悄地完成，无需任何讨论，使用我们情报机构可用的资源和方法。
That’s the world these folks operate in.”
这就是这些人所处的世界。”
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: : There was very much a macho quality to this.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：：这很有男子气概。
These were people of action, people who didn’t get hung up and endless meetings and debates and we have to worry about what Congress might think or how the media might react.
这些人都是行动派，不会陷入无休止的会议和辩论，我们不得不担心国会会怎么想或媒体会如何反应。
No. They were going to do what needed to be done and consequences be damned.
不。他们要做需要做的事情，而后果却是该死的。
Narrator: To justify “working the dark side” without congressional approval, Cheney relied on a theory of executive power that placed the President beyond the oversight of Congress.
旁白：为了证明在未经国会批准的情况下“从事黑暗面”的合理性，切尼依赖于一种行政权力理论，该理论将总统置于国会的监督之外。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: : As Cheney saw it, this was a mortal threat to the country this was none of Congress’ business to tell the president of the United States how to conduct foreign policy
记者迈克尔·伊西科夫：在切尼看来，这是对国家的致命威胁，国会无权告诉美国总统如何实施外交政策
Narrator: For years, Cheney had been preoccupied by so-called weapons of mass destruction, particularly biological agents that could easily and rapidly spread through a defenseless population.
旁白：多年来，切尼一直专注于所谓的大规模杀伤性武器，特别是可以轻松快速地在手无寸铁的人群中传播的生物制剂。
Narrator: Cheney’s worst fears seemed realized just three weeks after 9/11, when another attack began to unfold on American soil.
旁白：9/11 事件发生后仅仅三周，切尼最担心的事情似乎就变成了现实，当时另一场袭击开始在美国领土上展开。
SOT, Tom Brokaw: : A Florida man has contracted a very rare and potentially deadly form of Anthrax.
SOT，汤姆·布罗考：佛罗里达州一名男子感染了一种非常罕见且可能致命的炭疽病。
Narrator: In early October, envelopes containing a powdered, deadly form of anthrax were received in the mail by news anchors and politicians around the country.
旁白：十月初，全国各地的新闻主播和政界人士收到了装有致命炭疽粉末的信封。
The envelopes also contained crudely written letters with the words: DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO ISRAEL.
信封上还装着写得很粗糙的信件，上面写着：美国之死，以色列之死。
ALLAH IS GREAT.
安拉是伟大的。
David Frum, Speechwriter: : The anthrax attacks — that is one of the most underappreciated events of the period, because I think that was the thing that really locked in a lot of the mood of dread that was such a feature of those first months after 9/11.
David Frum，演讲撰稿人：炭疽袭击是这一时期最被低估的事件之一，因为我认为正是这一事件真正锁定了很多恐惧情绪，而这正是 9/11 事件后头几个月的一个特点。
Narrator: : In all, 17 people were stricken with anthrax; five would die.
旁白：：总共有17人感染炭疽病；五个人会死。
A massive investigation would eventually point to domestic origins for the attack, but at the time the anthrax attacks only strengthened Cheney’s argument that there could be no limits to the war on terror.
大规模调查最终将查明这次袭击的国内根源，但当时炭疽袭击只是强化了切尼的论点，即反恐战争不可能受到限制。
Ron Suskind, Journalist: Cheney says, we need to think in a new way about these high impact threats.
记者罗恩·苏斯金德：切尼说，我们需要以新的方式思考这些高影响力的威胁。
He says if there’s a 1 percent chance that terrorists have gotten their hands on weapons of mass destruction, we need to treat it as a certainty.
他说，如果恐怖分子获得大规模杀伤性武器的可能性有 1%，我们就需要将其视为必然。
It’s not about our analysis.
这与我们的分析无关。
It’s about our response.
这是关于我们的回应。
Narrator: : Cheney urged Bush to suspend the Geneva Conventions for captured fighters in Afghanistan, so that an array of more extreme interrogation techniques, including harsh physical punishment, could be used against them.
旁白：切尼敦促布什暂停对在阿富汗被俘武装人员执行《日内瓦公约》，以便对他们使用一系列更极端的审讯手段，包括严厉的体罚。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: Colin Powell was uncomfortable with this.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：科林·鲍威尔对此感到不舒服。
He was a military guy who operated under military rules in which there were very clear prohibitions on using tactics like were being proposed by his colleagues in the Bush administration.
他是一名军人，按照军事规则行事，军事规则明确禁止使用他在布什政府的同事们提出的战术。
Narrator: : The decision over what to do with suspected Al Qaeda prisoners would be one of the most momentous of Bush’s presidency.
旁白：关于如何处理基地组织嫌疑犯的决定将是布什总统任期内最重要的决定之一。
As the President weighed how to proceed, Cheney was a persistent and persuasive presence.
当总统权衡如何推进时，切尼的表现是坚持不懈且具有说服力的。
Eugene Robinson, Journalist: It became the narrative that Cheney was really the brains of the operation, that he was leading Bush wherever he wanted him to go.
尤金·罗宾逊，记者：人们普遍认为，切尼实际上是整个行动的大脑，他带领布什去任何他想让他去的地方。
I have really come to doubt that.
我真的开始怀疑这一点了。
George W.
乔治·W.
Bush is not a stupid person.
布什不是一个愚蠢的人。
He is a very bright man.
他是一个非常聪明的人。
He certainly delegated a lot of tasks to Cheney, but I don’t for a minute believe that the wool was comprehensively pulled over his eyes by this sort of scheming vice president.
他当然给切尼委派了很多任务，但我一点也不相信这位诡计多端的副总统完全蒙蔽了他的双眼。
Barton Gellman, Journalist: : On the issues that Bush cared about, when a decision was before him, he was the decider, as he said.
记者巴顿·盖尔曼：在布什关心的问题上，当决策摆在他面前时，正如他所说，他是决定者。
The caricature that Cheney would tell him what to do is just false.
切尼会告诉他该怎么做的漫画是错误的。
Bush would not have put up with that.
布什不会容忍这种事。
But Cheney was very good at setting the table and lining up the shot so that Bush was likely to take it.
但切尼非常善于摆好桌子并安排好镜头，以便布什有可能接受它。
Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Colin Powell: It was kind of remarkable to watch him work.
劳伦斯·威尔克森（Lawrence Wilkerson），科林·鲍威尔（Colin Powell）的幕僚长：看着他工作真是太了不起了。
Powell put it this way to me, in a metaphor I’ll never forget.
鲍威尔这样对我说的，这是一个我永远不会忘记的比喻。
He came back from a meeting with the President and he said, “Larry, the Vice President knows how to get the cowboy in Bush to pull his 45 and start shooting, and I don’t know how to get him to put it back in the holster.”
他与总统会面回来后说：“拉里，副总统知道如何让布什的牛仔拔出 45 枪并开始射击，但我不知道如何让他把枪放回枪套里。”
Narrator: : In a series of decisions beginning in January of 2002, Bush suspended Geneva’s protections for captured enemy combatants in Afghanistan, and approved a menu of so-called “enhanced interrogation tactics.”
旁白：在2002年1月开始的一系列决定中，布什暂停了日内瓦对阿富汗被俘敌方战斗人员的保护，并批准了一系列所谓的“强化审讯策略”。
Administration lawyers provided legal cover.
政府律师提供了法律保障。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefer: : At the time, the Department of Justice attorneys said that these enhanced interrogation techniques were not torture, they did not violate any anti-torture treaties, they did not rise to that level, that they were indeed legal.
迈克尔·莫雷尔（Michael Morell），《中情局总统每日简报》：：当时，司法部律师表示，这些强化审讯技术不是酷刑，它们没有违反任何反酷刑条约，也没有上升到那个程度，它们确实是合法的。
President Bush was told that.
布什总统被告知这一点。
Narrator: : Already, the first wave of captured enemy combatants were being transferred from the battlefields of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan to Guantanamo Bay -- a US military in Cuba converted into a makeshift prison.
旁白：第一波被俘的敌方战斗人员已经从阿富汗和邻国巴基斯坦的战场转移到关塔那摩湾——古巴的美军基地改建为临时监狱。
News SOT: : We’re talking about cells they prefer to call outdoor cells, many will call them cages.
新闻 SOT：：我们谈论的是他们更喜欢称之为室外牢房的牢房，许多人会称它们为笼子。
They are simply roofed cubicles surrounded by wire mesh.
它们只是简单的有屋顶的小隔间，周围有金属丝网。
Exposure to the elements.
暴露于自然环境中。
There will be a concrete floor, a mat, a bucket to be used for personal hygiene, that’s it.
会有水泥地板、垫子、用于个人卫生的水桶，仅此而已。
Very very tight security.
安全非常非常严密。
Narrator: : CIA specialists descended on Guantanamo, where they put into practice the newly approved interrogation techniques.
旁白：中央情报局的专家们来到关塔那摩，在那里他们运用了新批准的审讯技术。
Dana Priest, Journalist: The tactics included everything from slapping somebody in the face, pushing them up against a wall, denying them food, denying them liquids, putting someone in a confined space for a long period of time, rectal feeding, continuous sleep deprivation, and then the worst of them that we’ve heard about is waterboarding where you simulate drowning somebody.
达纳·普里斯特（Dana Priest），记者：这些策略包罗万象，从打人的脸、把他们推到墙上、不让他们吃东西、不让他们喝水、把人长时间关在密闭空间里、直肠喂食、持续剥夺睡眠，然后我们听说过的最糟糕的就是模拟溺水的水刑。
Narrator: Bush believed the CIA’s use of violence against captured prisoners in Guantanamo and at secret “black sites” around the world, was justified if it saved American lives.
旁白：布什认为，中央情报局对关塔那摩和世界各地秘密“黑色地点”的被俘囚犯使用暴力，如果它拯救了美国人的生命，那么它就是合理的。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefer: If you really believe that Al Qaeda is about ready to attack you again and if you really believe that these individuals, who you have captured, know what those attack plans are, and you couldn't get the information any other way, and if those attacks happened many, many, many more Americans could die, how could you not do it?
迈克尔·莫雷尔（Michael Morell），《中央情报局每日简报》总统：如果你真的相信基地组织准备再次攻击你，如果你真的相信你抓到的这些人知道这些攻击计划是什么，而你无法以任何其他方式获得信息，如果这些攻击发生，可能会有更多、更多、更多的美国人死亡，你怎么能不这么做呢？
Narrator: Bush’s critics argued that his approval of the enhanced interrogation program created a ripple effect, a culture of cruelty that trickled down to all those charged with carrying out the war on terror.
旁白：布什的批评者认为，他对加强审讯计划的批准产生了连锁反应，一种残忍的文化蔓延到所有被指控开展反恐战争的人。
Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Colin Powell: : The President said, “torture people”.
科林·鲍威尔的幕僚长劳伦斯·威尔克森：总统说，“折磨人民”。
That’s the message that went down from the highest power in America.
这是美国最高权力机构发出的信息。
That’s what it got interpreted in the field.
这就是它在现场的解释。
I don’t think anyone at that moment realized the effects that that decision would have down where the rubber meets the road.
我认为当时没有人意识到这个决定会产生怎样的影响。
Barbara Perry, Historian: : All presidents who are in wartime are having to try to balance national security with civil rights and liberties, all presidents.
历史学家芭芭拉·佩里：：所有战时总统都必须努力平衡国家安全与公民权利和自由，所有总统。
Every day they lived with the thought that another terrorist attack could occur and they were going to do everything they could to try to stop that.
他们每天都生活在这样的想法中：另一场恐怖袭击可能会发生，他们将尽一切努力阻止这种情况的发生。
And sometimes that meant skating right up to the line of civil rights and liberties, and sometimes it meant crossing it.
有时这意味着滑向公民权利和自由的界限，有时则意味着跨越它。
Narrator: : But many worried that these tactics would exact a heavy toll, both morally and practically.
旁白：：但许多人担心这些策略会在道义上和实践上造成重大损失。
Dana Priest, Journalist: It’s these bigger issues, who are we as a country, are we a leader in humanitarian issues or not, do we care about human rights or not?
记者达纳·普里斯特：这些更大的问题是，我们作为一个国家是谁，我们是否是人道主义问题的领导者，我们是否关心人权？
All of these things were up for grabs.
所有这些东西都可以争夺。
Richard Clarke, Counter-Terrorism Coordinator: The days after 9/11, the entire world was with us.
理查德·克拉克（Richard Clarke），反恐协调员：9/11 事件发生后的几天里，全世界都与我们同在。
There were tens of thousands of people in the streets of Tehran, not yelling death to America, but expressing their sympathy with America.
德黑兰街头有数万人，不是喊美国去死，而是表达对美国的同情。
The world was with us, and we squandered it.
世界与我们同在，但我们却浪费了它。
The reputation of the United States was tarnished for generations to come in the Middle East by the things that we did.
美国在中东的声誉因我们所做的事情而受到玷污。
Narrator: : By mid-November, 2001, the war in Afghanistan seemed to be nearing its end, as US-led forces stormed the capital, Kabul.
旁白： 2001年11月中旬，阿富汗战争似乎已接近尾声，美国领导的军队袭击了首都喀布尔。
A few weeks later, they took Kandahar, the Taliban’s last stronghold.
几周后，他们占领了塔利班最后的据点坎大哈。
But the sweetness of victory was tempered when Osama Bin Laden slipped away from allied forces during a ferocious battle in the mountainous region of Tora Bora.
但当奥萨马·本·拉登在托拉博拉山区的一场激烈战斗中从盟军手中溜走时，胜利的甜蜜被冲淡了。
Michael Morell, President’s Daily CIA Briefer: : The President said “Michael, is there anything new this morning?” and I said “Mr. President, I have some really bad news for you.
迈克尔·莫雷尔（Michael Morell），总统的中央情报局每日简报：：总统说：“迈克尔，今天早上有什么新消息吗？”我说：“先生。”总统先生，我有一些非常坏的消息要告诉你。
Bin Laden has escaped from Tora Bora”, and I had never seen the President lose his temper in my entire year of briefing him.
本·拉登已经从托拉博拉逃脱了”，在我向他通报情况的整整一年里，我从未见过总统发脾气。
I had never seen him get mad.
我从未见过他生气。
He did in this case.
在这种情况下他做到了。
Narrator: Bin Laden’s escape, and the swift collapse of the Taliban government, left Bush, and much of the country, unsatisfied.
旁白：本·拉登的逃亡和塔利班政府的迅速垮台，让布什和全国大部分地区都感到不满。
Ron Suskind, Journalist: Afghanistan’s not big enough.
记者 Ron Suskind：阿富汗还不够大。
It’s not proportional.
这不成正比。
It needs to be bigger.
它需要更大。
The towers are burning, the Pentagon’s burning.
塔楼在燃烧，五角大楼在燃烧。
They attacked the United States, the response has to be proportional to what occurred to us.
他们攻击美国，其反应必须与我们所遭遇的情况成正比。
Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Colin Powell: Afghanistan really didn’t do it.
科林·鲍威尔的幕僚长劳伦斯·威尔克森：阿富汗确实没有这么做。
Afghanistan did not send the signal to the world, “Don’t mess with the United States”.
阿富汗没有向世界发出“不要惹美国”的信号。
We need a state actor.
我们需要一个国家演员。
Saddam Hussein, let’s go after him.
萨达姆·侯赛因，我们去追捕他吧。
That’ll send a signal to the world that you don’t mess with the United States.
这将向世界发出一个信号：不要惹恼美国。
Narrator: : Initially resistant to the neo-cons arguments to invade Iraq right away, Bush felt himself increasingly drawn to the idea.
旁白：布什最初抵制新保守派立即入侵伊拉克的论点，但他觉得自己越来越被这个想法所吸引。
The reasons were not only political; they were personal.
原因不仅是政治上的，而且是政治上的。他们是个人的。
In 1991, Bush’s father had waged the first Gulf War against Saddam’s forces in Kuwait.
1991年，布什的父亲在科威特发动了针对萨达姆军队的第一次海湾战争。
The war was over quickly, but to avoid a bloody occupation, George H.W.
战争很快就结束了，但为了避免血腥占领，乔治·H·W·布什 (George H.W.
Bush had halted the U.S. advance before reaching Baghdad, allowing Saddam to survive.
布什在到达巴格达之前阻止了美国的前进，使萨达姆得以幸存。
Barton Gellman, Journalist: : Bush developed a sense that there was unfinished business from the first Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s; that leaving Saddam in power had been a mistake.
巴顿·盖尔曼（Barton Gellman），记者：布什意识到 20 世纪 90 年代初第一次海湾战争还有未竟的事业；让萨达姆掌权是一个错误。
Bush was attracted to the idea of finishing something his father had left undone.
布什被完成他父亲未完成的事情的想法所吸引。
There was also a strong sense that Iraq was a growing threat to U.S. interests, and that was because the regime of arms control restrictions and sanctions that was keeping Iraq bottled up after that first Gulf War were beginning to erode.
人们还强烈地感觉到，伊拉克对美国利益的威胁越来越大，这是因为第一次海湾战争后使伊拉克陷入困境的军备控制限制和制裁制度开始受到侵蚀。
Eugene Robinson, Journalist: There was this powerful determination within the administration, that nothing like 9/11 would ever happen again.
尤金·罗宾逊（Eugene Robinson），记者：政府内部有一个强有力的决心，决不会再发生像 9/11 这样的事情。
I mean, they racked their brains, like how did we not see this?
我的意思是，他们绞尽脑汁，就像我们怎么没看到这一点？
How do we make sure that we never ever miss something like this again.
我们如何确保我们永远不会再错过这样的事情。
In that sense, what you get is a classic overreaction, and you go not just into Afghanistan, but you go into Iraq.
从这个意义上说，你得到的是典型的过度反应，你不仅进入阿富汗，而且进入伊拉克。
Narrator: For President Bush, removing Saddam also presented an opportunity: to spread American values throughout the Middle East, and to put his personal stamp on history.
旁白：对于布什总统来说，推翻萨达姆也提供了一个机会：在整个中东传播美国价值观，并在历史上留下他个人的印记。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: : W’s opinion of the role of America and the world was very much formed by his father's experience in World War II.
记者劳伦斯·赖特 (Lawrence Wright)：W 对美国和世界角色的看法在很大程度上是由他父亲在二战中的经历形成的。
So many sons of fathers like that.
很多父亲的儿子都是这样的。
Uh, they, they looked back at how America saved civilization as, as they saw it.
呃，他们，他们回顾了美国如何拯救文明，就像他们所看到的那样。
That image of a powerful America sheltering the rest of the world under his arm was very much in, in Bush’s, mind.
布什的脑海中深深地浮现出一个强大的美国将世界其他国家置于其腋下的形象。
SOT, President Bush: : All of us need to understand it is now time to plant the flag of freedom firmly in our nation and around the world.
SOT，布什总统：：我们所有人都需要明白，现在是在我们的国家和世界各地牢固地插上自由旗帜的时候了。
Because what we do today will determine whether or not our children and our grandchildren can grow up in a life that we knew.
因为我们今天的所作所为将决定我们的子孙能否在我们熟悉的生活中成长。
Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Colin Powell: He truly believed that there were things he was destined to do.
科林·鲍威尔的幕僚长劳伦斯·威尔克森：他确实相信有些事情是他注定要做的。
And one of those things was to spread the American way in opportune moments.
其中之一就是在适当的时机传播美国方式。
An almost evangelical sense of rectitude and righteousness did motivate Bush.
一种近乎福音派的正直和正义感确实激励了布什。
Narrator: : Throughout late 2001 and early 2002, Bush moved closer to a decision to invade Iraq.
旁白： ：整个2001年底和2002年初，布什更接近做出入侵伊拉克的决定。
He ordered the Pentagon to revise its war plans, and tasked Cheney with turning up proof of Saddam’s weapons program.
他命令五角大楼修改其战争计划，并责成切尼提供萨达姆武器计划的证据。
Cheney threw himself into the effort, making frequent trips to CIA headquarters where he met directly with CIA analysts.
切尼全身心投入到这项工作中，经常前往中央情报局总部，在那里他直接会见中央情报局分析师。
Ron Suskind, Journalist: And he’s saying in briefings, I want to hear everything, even the rawest intelligence, and there’s a pushback.
罗恩·苏斯金德（Ron Suskind），记者：他在简报中说，我想听到一切，甚至是最原始的情报，但存在阻力。
You don’t want to hear the raw stuff.
你不想听到原始的东西。
Some of it’s meaningless.
有些是没有意义的。
You know, it hasn’t...it’s not vetted intelligence.
你知道，这不是……这不是经过审查的情报。
But Cheney wants to hear everything.
但切尼想听听一切。
So Cheney’s getting a feed of fear.
所以切尼感到恐惧。
Narrator: Cheney’s hands-on approach reflected a deep skepticism of the CIA’s ability to interpret its own intelligence.
旁白：切尼的亲力亲为的做法反映出对中央情报局解释自己情报的能力的深深怀疑。
Barton Gellman, Journalist: : He was suspicious that the CIA as an institution was too conservative about threats, was willing to gloss things over, or required a higher standard of proof than Cheney believed was necessary in order to respond to a potential threat.
记者巴顿·盖尔曼：他怀疑中央情报局作为一个机构对威胁过于保守，愿意掩盖事实，或者要求提供比切尼认为应对潜在威胁所需的更高标准的证据。
Narrator: Cheney had seen for himself how the CIA had missed Saddam’s nuclear weapons program during the first gulf war.
旁白：切尼亲眼目睹了中央情报局在第一次海湾战争期间如何错过了萨达姆的核武器计划。
Michael Gerson, Chief Speechwriter: : When they accounted for non-conventional weapons at the end of that war, they found a nuclear program by Saddam Hussein and his regime that was far more advanced than the intel that they had at the time.
首席演讲撰稿人迈克尔·格尔森：当他们在战争结束时考虑非常规武器时，他们发现萨达姆·侯赛因及其政权的核计划比他们当时掌握的情报要先进得多。
There was this feeling that we were underestimating the risk in this case.
有一种感觉是我们低估了这种情况下的风险。
Narrator: : To repeat the same mistake this time, Cheney believed, would be catastrophic.
旁白：切尼相信，这次再犯同样的错误将是灾难性的。
He and his allies weren’t going to let that happen.
他和他的盟友不会让这种事发生。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: : Cheney had an agenda.
迈克尔·伊西科夫（Michael Isikoff），记者：：切尼有一个议程。
He knew what he wanted the answer to be, he knew what he wanted the end result to be.
他知道他想要的答案是什么，他知道他想要的最终结果是什么。
And they begin pressuring the intelligence community to find the evidence that supports their preconceived notions about the threat that Saddam posed to the world.
他们开始向情报界施压，要求他们找到证据来支持他们对萨达姆对世界构成的威胁的先入为主的看法。
Narrator: : Under Cheney’s prodding, the CIA began to generate reports that Iraq was harboring weapons of mass destruction.
旁白：：在切尼的推动下，中央情报局开始制作伊拉克藏有大规模杀伤性武器的报告。
Barton Gellman, Journalist: In terms of biological and chemical weapons, it was not an outlandish position at all to believe that Saddam Hussein still had them.
巴顿·格尔曼，记者：就生化武器而言，相信萨达姆·侯赛因仍然拥有这些武器一点也不奇怪。
He had had them, he had built them, he had used them, he had lied many, many times before, during, and after UN weapons inspections.
他拥有它们，他建造了它们，他使用过它们，他在联合国武器检查之前、期间和之后多次撒谎。
The nuclear case was always much, much weaker.
核案件总是要弱得多。
But the idea that there was a threat of an atomic attack by a man like Saddam Hussein was much more likely to capture the public imagination
但像萨达姆·侯赛因这样的人威胁发动原子弹袭击的想法更有可能激发公众的想象力
Narrator: : Cheney briefed Bush on intelligence that Iraq was attempting to acquire uranium from Africa, and the centrifuges necessary to enrich it into a nuclear bomb.
旁白：切尼向布什通报了伊拉克试图从非洲获取铀以及将其浓缩成核弹所需的离心机的情报。
These reports, and many others, were poorly sourced, uncorroborated, and doubted by experts in the field.
这些报告以及许多其他报告来源不明，未经证实，并受到该领域专家的怀疑。
But, under pressure, the CIA presented them as proof.
但迫于压力，中央情报局将它们作为证据。
Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Colin Powell: They took raw intelligence, they picked through it.
科林·鲍威尔的幕僚长劳伦斯·威尔克森：他们获取原始情报，并从中挑选。
It didn't matter what its credibility was, its credibility could be assessed as poor.
不管它的可信度如何，它的可信度都可以被评定为很差。
It didn't matter as long as it fit what they wanted to do, they plucked it out and put it on the board.
只要符合他们想做的就没关系，他们把它拔出来放在板上。
And then they packaged it once they got enough pieces and they sent it to the White House
然后他们在收到足够的碎片后将其包装并发送到白宫
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen CIA Counter-Terrorism Expert: : Yes, the agency pushed a story beyond the facts, beyond the truth.
罗尔夫·莫瓦特·拉森 (Rolf Mowatt-Larssen) 中央情报局反恐专家： ：是的，该机构的故事超出了事实，超出了真相。
That was our failure, but we were fully aware of the consequences, that the noose was around our neck.
那是我们的失败，但我们充分意识到后果，绞索套在我们的脖子上。
We can’t afford to fail one time, and we got it wrong.
我们不能承受一次失败，而且我们也犯了错误。
Narrator: Woefully uneducated in foreign affairs, inclined to believe the worst about Saddam, Bush did nothing to probe the reliability of the CIA’s reporting.
旁白：可悲的是，布什在外交方面没有受过多少教育，倾向于相信萨达姆最坏的一面，他没有采取任何措施来调查中央情报局报告的可靠性。
Instead, he accepted as fact what Cheney and others had long argued: that Iraq had a viable chemical, biological and nuclear weapons program.
相反，他接受了切尼和其他人长期以来所主张的事实：伊拉克拥有可行的化学、生物和核武器计划。
Karen Deyoung, Journalist: : Bush thought of himself as a big picture kinda guy.
凯伦·德扬（Karen Deyoung），记者：布什认为自己是一个有大局观的人。
But I think in many cases he didn't recognize how he was gradually being moved to those positions.
但我认为，在很多情况下，他并没有意识到自己是如何逐渐被调到这些职位的。
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: George Bush was surrounded by people who had an agenda.
劳伦斯·赖特（Lawrence Wright），记者：乔治·布什周围都是有议程的人。
And they had a president who in every other respect was a very self-confident person, but in terms of foreign affairs, he was uncertain.
他们的总统在其他方面都是一个非常自信的人，但在外交事务方面，他却很不确定。
And so they used that.
And so they used that.
Bush is presented with one idea after another that, uh, Saddam is actually seeking these weapons of mass destruction.
布什收到了一个又一个的想法，呃，萨达姆实际上正在寻求这些大规模杀伤性武器。
Had that been true it would have been justified, but it wasn't true.
如果这是真的，那就有道理了，但事实并非如此。
It was cooked up.
It was cooked up.
I hold his cabinet and his advisers responsible.
我要求他的内阁和顾问负责。
But ultimately, the president is the one who has to take the blame
但最终，总统是必须承担责任的人
Narrator: By the summer of 2002, Bush and his team had transitioned from contemplating invasion to selling the idea to the American people.
旁白：到 2002 年夏天，布什和他的团队已经从考虑入侵转向向美国人民兜售这个想法。
Timothy Naftali, Historian: : You needed to bring the country along because you were going to send some Americans to their deaths.
蒂莫西·纳夫塔利（Timothy Naftali），历史学家：：你需要带领整个国家一起前进，因为你会让一些美国人走向死亡。
And so there was this torturous effort to give the impression that Saddam was on the verge of having a full fledged WMD program which meant he could use nuclear weapons against us.
因此，这种痛苦的努力给人留下这样的印象：萨达姆即将拥有一个成熟的大规模杀伤性武器计划，这意味着他可以对我们使用核武器。
And that's where they misled the American people.
这就是他们误导美国人民的地方。
Narrator: : Senior members of the administration fanned out across the airwaves to make the case for war, sometimes repeating unfounded or incorrect intelligence claims.
旁白：政府高级成员通过广播散布开来，为战争辩护，有时重复毫无根据或不正确的情报主张。
SOT, Rice: There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire a nuclear weapon.
SOT，赖斯：他能以多快的速度获得核武器总是存在一些不确定性。
But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
但我们不希望确凿的证据成为蘑菇云。
SOT, Cheney: : He now is trying through his illicit procurement network to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium.
SOT，切尼：他现在正试图通过他的非法采购网络获取浓缩铀所需的设备。
Cheney: : Specifically aluminum tubes.
切尼：：特别是铝管。
There is a story in the New York Times...
《纽约时报》上有这样一个故事……
SOT, Powell: : Reporting just this morning, he is still trying to acquire, for example, some of the specialized aluminium tubing one needs to develop centrifuges that would give you an enrichment capability.
SOT，鲍威尔：：今天早上报道时，他仍在努力获取，例如，开发离心机所需的一些专用铝管，这些离心机将赋予您浓缩能力。
Narrator: : Though he would participate in the administration’s public relations offensive, Colin Powell was growing uncomfortable with the unilateral rush to war.
旁白：：尽管科林·鲍威尔会参与政府的公共关系攻势，但他对单方面仓促发动战争感到越来越不安。
On August 5th, he sat down with Bush in the White House Treaty Room, warning the President that he could not simply win a quick military victory and walk away.
8月5日，他在白宫条约室与布什坐下来，警告总统他不能简单地赢得快速的军事胜利就走开。
“If you break it,” he said, “you own it.”
“如果你打破了它，”他说，“你就拥有了它。”
Instead, Powell advised, Bush should build an international coalition before heading into war.
相反，鲍威尔建议，布什应该在发动战争之前建立一个国际联盟。
Karen Deyoung, Journalist: : Certainly Colin Powell was saying slow down.
记者凯伦·德扬 (Karen Deyoung)：科林·鲍威尔当然是在说放慢速度。
He was not arguing with the, with the intelligence.
他并不是在与智慧争论。
What Powell was saying is, “if you're going to do this, don't do it without allies.
鲍威尔的意思是，“如果你要这样做，就不要在没有盟友的情况下这样做。
Don't just rush in.
Don't just rush in.
You have to convince the rest of the world that this has to be the next step in the war on terror.” It's not the kind of thing you go out and do by yourself.
你必须让世界其他国家相信，这必须是反恐战争的下一步。”这不是那种你一个人出去做的事情。
Narrato: r: But Powell’s advice was drowned out by a chorus of hawks and hardliners who were certain that Saddam’s army could be easily vanquished, and the country quickly turned over to an elected Iraqi government.
旁白：r：但鲍威尔的建议被一群鹰派和强硬派淹没了，他们确信萨达姆的军队可以轻易被击败，国家很快就会移交给民选的伊拉克政府。
SOT, Cheney: : My belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators.
SOT，切尼：我相信我们实际上会被视为解放者。
The read we get on the people of Iraq is, there’s no question but what they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein, and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that.
我们从伊拉克人民那里得到的信息是，毫无疑问，他们想要摆脱萨达姆·侯赛因，当我们这样做时，他们将欢迎美国作为解放者。
Dana Priest, Journalist: : So many people around George Bush were telling him, this is a cakewalk.
记者达纳·普里斯特 (Dana Priest)：乔治·布什周围的很多人都告诉他，这很容易。
We’re going to go in.
We’re going to go in.
The people are going to be happy we liberated them.
人们会为我们解放了他们而感到高兴。
Democracy will flourish.
Democracy will flourish.
We’ll be thanked.
We’ll be thanked.
So, I do think that President Bush thought he would be seen as a hero and be out of there quickly.
所以，我确实认为布什总统认为他会被视为英雄并很快离开那里。
Narrator: : Though Colin Powell was isolated inside the administration, he did have some powerful friends on the outside.
旁白：：虽然科林·鲍威尔在政府内部受到孤立，但他在外部确实有一些有权势的朋友。
Ten days after his meeting with Bush, an Op-Ed appeared in the Wall Street Journal written by Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor under George H.
Ten days after his meeting with Bush, an Op-Ed appeared in the Wall Street Journal written by Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor under George H.
W.
W.
Bush and a close family friend.
布什和一位亲密的家庭朋友。
The editorial was immediately interpreted as a message from Bush’s father: “Don’t attack Iraq.”
这篇社论立即被解读为布什父亲的信息：“不要攻击伊拉克。”
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: : There was a lot of discussion when Bush became President that his father would be the sort of shadow figure, and he never was.
Lawrence Wright, Journalist: : There was a lot of discussion when Bush became President that his father would be the sort of shadow figure, and he never was.
According to Bush’s own recollections, he really didn’t ask his father for that much advice.
据布什自己回忆，他并没有向父亲征求那么多建议。
Few people in the world could have been more beneficial than his father.
世界上很少有人能比他的父亲更有益。
It must have caused some agony, uh, on his father's part when he saw his son taking advice that was leading him in the wrong direction.
当他的父亲看到他的儿子接受了引导他走向错误方向的建议时，他的父亲肯定会感到一些痛苦。
Narrator: : Bush had always been caught between wanting to please his father, and wanting to prove his independence.
旁白：布什一直左右为难，既想取悦父亲，又想证明自己的独立性。
Now, he ignored his father’s advice, and plowed ahead towards war.
现在，他不顾父亲的劝告，一意孤行地走向战争。
SOT, Bush: : If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today, and we do, does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger, and develops even more dangerous weapons?
SOT, Bush: : If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today, and we do, does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger, and develops even more dangerous weapons?
George Packer, Journalist: : He was showing that he was his own man, and any obstacle was a test of resolve, and to walk around it or to back off and reconsider would be a sign of weakness.
George Packer, Journalist: : He was showing that he was his own man, and any obstacle was a test of resolve, and to walk around it or to back off and reconsider would be a sign of weakness.
Narrator: : In October, Bush sought congressional authorization for military action against Iraq.
旁白：：十月，布什寻求国会授权对伊拉克采取军事行动。
George Packer, Journalist: Bush pushed a war resolution on Congress just before the mid-terms in 2002, in order to corner Democrats and force them to say either, you know, I’m not prepared to defend the country from chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons from Iraq, and I will lose, or I am, and Bush will get his vote.
George Packer, Journalist: Bush pushed a war resolution on Congress just before the mid-terms in 2002, in order to corner Democrats and force them to say either, you know, I’m not prepared to defend the country from chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons from Iraq, and I will lose, or I am, and Bush will get his vote.
Rather than trying to really create bipartisan support, it was more like blackmail
这更像是勒索，而不是试图真正建立两党支持
Narrator: Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing military action against Iraq.
旁白：国会以压倒性多数投票赞成授权对伊拉克采取军事行动。
A month later, Republicans, who had campaigned on the need to invade Iraq, swept to a convincing victory in the mid-term Congressional elections.
A month later, Republicans, who had campaigned on the need to invade Iraq, swept to a convincing victory in the mid-term Congressional elections.
News SOT: : Is the path now clear for a possible US war with Iraq?
新闻 SOT：：美国可能与伊拉克开战的道路现在是否清晰？
Today, many believe the possibility for war is significantly greater than it was at this time only yesterday.
今天，许多人认为爆发战争的可能性比昨天此时要大得多。
The reason?
原因是什么？
An American President with new political momentum.
一位具有新政治动力的美国总统。
Narrator: : Clearly, Bush now had the country behind him.
旁白：：显然，布什现在得到了国家的支持。
But the rest of the world remained skeptical that all options short of war had been exhausted.
但世界其他国家仍然怀疑除了战争之外的所有选择是否都已用尽。
In November, the United Nations passed Resolution 1441 giving Saddam more time by allowing weapons inspectors back into the country.
11月，联合国通过了第1441号决议，允许武器检查人员返回该国，从而给萨达姆更多的时间。
A few months later, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, begged the President to return to the UN Security Council to seek a resolution explicitly authorizing the invasion.
A few months later, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, begged the President to return to the UN Security Council to seek a resolution explicitly authorizing the invasion.
Robin Wright, Journalist: : There were those in the administration who did not believe in international institutions to begin with, so there was skepticism about whether it was even worth trying it, but Powell made the case you have to go to the UN to be seen to have at least tried and if they succeeded, then the world would come back and say, “oh, you were right.”
Robin Wright, Journalist: : There were those in the administration who did not believe in international institutions to begin with, so there was skepticism about whether it was even worth trying it, but Powell made the case you have to go to the UN to be seen to have at least tried and if they succeeded, then the world would come back and say, “oh, you were right.”
Narrator: Reluctantly, Bush accepted Blair and Powell’s advice, and ordered Powell himself to make the case to the UN.
旁白：布什无奈地接受了布莱尔和鲍威尔的建议，并命令鲍威尔亲自向联合国陈述此事。
David Kay, Weapons Inspector: Here was not Dick Cheney, here was not President Bush.
大卫·凯，武器检查员：这里不是迪克·切尼，这里不是布什总统。
Here was probably the most respected member of the foreign policy establishment.
他可能是外交政策机构中最受尊敬的成员。
Narrator: : The speech before the Security Council would be one of the most scrutinized in the history of the body.
旁白：：在安理会上的演讲将是该机构历史上最受关注的演讲之一。
Powell wanted it to be airtight, all but discarding an early draft provided by the Vice President’s office.
鲍威尔希望它是无懈可击的，几乎放弃了副总统办公室提供的早期草案。
Richard Haass, Advisor to Colin Powell: We argued over lots of things in it.
理查德·哈斯，科林·鲍威尔的顾问：我们在其中争论了很多事情。
We took out a lot, almost everything that we’d been given.
我们拿走了很多，几乎是我们得到的一切。
We went through it from the ground up, and painstakingly put together a script that Colin Powell felt comfortable with.
我们从头开始仔细研究，并煞费苦心地编写了一个科林·鲍威尔觉得舒服的剧本。
Narrator: On February 5th, President Bush watched from the White House as Colin Powell made one final appeal for international support.
旁白：2 月 5 日，布什总统在白宫观看科林·鲍威尔最后呼吁国际社会的支持。
Despite his extensive vetting, Powell repeated several claims that were exaggerated or untrue.
尽管进行了广泛的审查，鲍威尔还是重复了一些夸大或不真实的说法。
SOT, Powell: We know that Iraq has at least seven of these mobile biological agent factories.
SOT，鲍威尔：我们知道伊拉克至少有七座这样的移动生物制剂工厂。
Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb.
萨达姆侯赛因决心获得核弹。
He is so determined that he has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high specification aluminium tubes.
他意志坚定，多次暗中尝试获取高规格铝管。
Narrator: In the end, Powell had failed to persuade the holdouts on the Security Council: China, Russia and France.
旁白：最终，鲍威尔未能说服安理会中的顽固分子：中国、俄罗斯和法国。
A week later, large scale protests broke out in cities around the world, calling for the United States to stand down.
一周后，世界各地城市爆发大规模抗议活动，要求美国下台。
Michael Isikoff, Journalist: He had been influenced by Cheney and others to believe that Iraq was the primary threat facing the country.
记者迈克尔·伊西科夫：他受到切尼等人的影响，认为伊拉克是该国面临的主要威胁。
He was wrong, but it’s what he believed.
他错了，但这就是他所相信的。
Pete Wehner, Director Of Strategic Initiatives: Most of the case for the Iraq War rested on the assumption that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Pete Wehner, Director Of Strategic Initiatives: Most of the case for the Iraq War rested on the assumption that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
If we had known otherwise, it would’ve been insane to go to war.
如果我们早知道的话，那么发动战争就太疯狂了。
You don’t go to war based on a lie.
你不会因为谎言而发动战争。
Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor: I said to him, you know, you must be nervous about what follows, and he said, actually, I'm very comfortable.
Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor: I said to him, you know, you must be nervous about what follows, and he said, actually, I'm very comfortable.
You know, I'm not a regretter, you know, I've made that decision, you know, we'll let the chips fall where they may, and on to the next thing.
你知道，我不是一个后悔者，你知道，我已经做出了这个决定，你知道，我们会让事情顺其自然，然后继续下一件事。
SOT, Bush: Fellow citizens.
SOT，布什：同胞们。
At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.
At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.
On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein’s ability to wage war.
根据我的命令，联军已开始袭击选定的具有军事重要性的目标，以削弱萨达姆·侯赛因发动战争的能力。
May God bless our country, and all who defend her.
愿上帝保佑我们的国家以及所有保卫她的人。
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Narrator: After the worst terrorist attack in US history, Americans turned for hope and reassurance to a recently elected president, many had thought was unprepared for the office.
Narrator: After the worst terrorist attack in US history, Americans turned for hope and reassurance to a recently elected president, many had thought was unprepared for the office.
The heir of a political dynasty, George Walker Bush had led a wayward life in his youth, until he found religion and a focus.
作为政治王朝的继承人，乔治·沃克·布什年轻时过着任性的生活，直到他找到了宗教并找到了焦点。
Frum: George W.
Frum: George W.
Bush has a famous name and a wealthy family but, until he’s 40, nobody thinks he’s going anywhere.
布什拥有著名的名字和富裕的家庭，但在他 40 岁之前，没有人认为他会去任何地方。
Narrator: After two terms as the governor of Texas, he became President in 2000, following a controversial election victory.
旁白：在担任德克萨斯州州长两届之后，他在 2000 年赢得有争议的选举胜利后成为总统。
Lawrence Wright: He intended to be a domestic president...that’s where his concentration was and he hardly had a chance.
劳伦斯·赖特：他想成为一名国内总统……那是他的注意力所在，但他几乎没有机会。
Almost out of the gate, you know, he’s hit with 9/11.
你知道，他差点就遭遇了 9/11 事件。
Narrator: Standing atop the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, just days after the attack, Bush conveyed strength in the face of fear.
Narrator: Standing atop the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, just days after the attack, Bush conveyed strength in the face of fear.
SOT man: We can’t hear you!
SOT 人：我们听不到你的声音！
Bush: I can hear you!
Bush: I can hear you!
Narrator: The president called upon Americans to unify around a common purpose...
旁白：总统呼吁美国人围绕一个共同目标团结起来……
SOT Bush: I can hear you!
SOT 布什：我能听到你的声音！
The rest of the world hears you, [Cheers]
世界其他地方都听到了你的声音，[干杯]
SOT Bush: -- and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon
SOT 布什：——那些推倒这些建筑物的人很快就会听到我们所有人的声音
Eugene Robinson: I think he believed that he had been chosen for this task.
尤金·罗宾逊：我认为他相信自己被选中执行这项任务。
That he had been somehow chosen to be president of the United States at this crucial moment, not even perhaps knowing he had been chosen, but that here he was.
That he had been somehow chosen to be president of the United States at this crucial moment, not even perhaps knowing he had been chosen, but that here he was.
Narrator: In the days after 9/11, Bush’s popularity soared.
旁白：9/11之后的几天里，布什的支持率飙升。
Then, a series of major crises and fateful decisions unleashed forces that would shake confidence and change the course of his presidency.
随后，一系列重大危机和重大决定释放出力量，动摇信心并改变他的总统任期。
SOT, President Bush: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.
SOT，布什总统：我的同胞们，此时此刻，美国和联军正处于解除伊拉克武装、解放伊拉克人民和保卫世界免遭严重危险的军事行动的早期阶段。
Narrator: On March 19, 2003, President George W.
旁白：2003年3月19日，乔治·W·布什总统
Bush announced the start of the war in Iraq.
布什宣布伊拉克战争开始。
The air bombardment continued overnight.
空袭持续了一夜。
Then, 50,000 ground troops led by the One Marine Expeditionary Force and the Army’s 5th corps swept into Iraq.
随后，以海军陆战队远征军和陆军第5军为首的5万地面部队席卷伊拉克。
SOT, President Bush: The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.
SOT, President Bush: The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.
We will meet that threat now.
我们现在就要应对这一威胁。
SOT, President Bush: May God bless our country and all who defend her.
SOT，布什总统：愿上帝保佑我们的国家和所有保卫她的人。
Narrator: At first, the war unfolded far better than Bush expected.
旁白：起初，战争的进展远比布什预期的要好。
US soldiers advanced rapidly up the Euphrates Valley, crushing pockets of resistance.
美军士兵沿着幼发拉底河谷快速推进，粉碎了小股抵抗力量。
SOT, Reporter In Helicopter: They’re calling it Route Hurricane because obviously this is a very fast moving force by traditional military standards.
SOT, Reporter In Helicopter: They’re calling it Route Hurricane because obviously this is a very fast moving force by traditional military standards.
Narrator: American forces found that Saddam’s vast army had largely melted away.
旁白：美军发现萨达姆的庞大军队已基本解散。
SOT, Reporter: In the town of Zahwan, Iraqi citizens are tearing down posters of Saddam Hussein and American troops are being treated as liberators.
SOT记者：在扎赫万镇，伊拉克民众正在撕毁萨达姆·侯赛因的海报，美军则被视为解放者。
Narrator: The first detachment of Marines reached the heart of the capital, Baghdad.
旁白：第一支海军陆战队抵达首都巴格达市中心。
Ari Fleischer: There's no TV in the Oval Office, so I went to the outer Oval, and there's a TV in there, and I could see the rope around Saddam's statue and the tank pulling it over, and I said to the president you should watch this.
阿里·弗莱舍：椭圆形办公室里没有电视，所以我去了外面的椭圆形办公室，那里有一台电视，我可以看到萨达姆雕像周围的绳子和拉着它的坦克，我对总统说你应该看这个。
So, he came out, and we watched that statue come down.
所以，他出来了，我们看着那座雕像倒塌。
The president was interested in seeing how the crowd wanted the statue down.
总统很想知道群众如何希望拆除雕像。
He took it in as a pretty important moment.
他认为这是一个非常重要的时刻。
But he didn't say much.
但他并没有说太多。
Narrator: After taking Baghdad with an army less than a third the size of the force that Bush’s father had assembled to defeat Saddam Hussein in 1991 -- the mood in the administration was euphoric.
旁白：在以不到 1991 年布什父亲击败萨达姆·侯赛因的军队规模三分之一的军队攻克巴格达后，政府的情绪十分乐观。
SOT, Donald Rumsfeld: The scenes of free Iraqis celebrating in the streets are breathtaking.
SOT，唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德：自由的伊拉克人在街头庆祝的场景令人惊叹。
Watching them, one cannot help but think of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
看着它们，人们不禁会想起柏林墙的倒塌和铁幕的崩溃。
Martha Raddatz: The US military and its allies have gone in there so swiftly, just like Donald Rumsfeld had said.
玛莎·拉达兹：正如唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德所说，美国军队及其盟友如此迅速地进入了那里。
Martha Raddatz: You can have the sound down.
玛莎·拉达茨：你可以把声音关小一点。
You don’t have to listen to anything.
你不必听任何东西。
You see those images and it’s people celebrating.
你看到这些照片，人们在庆祝。
Narrator: On May 1, a buoyant George Bush flew out to the USS Lincoln, moored just off the coast of San Diego, to salute returning troops.
旁白：5月1日，精神抖擞的乔治·布什飞向停泊在圣地亚哥海岸附近的林肯号航空母舰，向归来的部队致敬。
Andy Card: This was a fun experience for the president.
安迪·卡德：这对总统来说是一次有趣的经历。
He was really looking forward to the Abraham Lincoln.
他非常期待亚伯拉罕·林肯号。
Why?
为什么？
Because he was going to fly on a plane and land on the carrier, so he was excited.
因为他要坐飞机，降落在航母上，所以他很兴奋。
Elisabeth Bumiller: The intention was to show off the end of the war.
伊丽莎白·布米勒（Elisabeth Bumiller）：目的是为了炫耀战争的结束。
Elisabeth Bumiller: They were very careful about the lighting.
Elisabeth Bumiller：他们对灯光非常小心。
I remember they, they, they wanted the light to be that sort of golden-hour light, so he landed in the late afternoon.
我记得他们，他们，他们希望光线是那种黄金时段的光线，所以他在下午晚些时候着陆。
It looked great.
看起来很棒。
SOT, President Bush: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.
SOT，布什总统：伊拉克的主要作战行动已经结束。
In the battle of Iraq, the United States and her allies have prevailed.
在伊拉克战争中，美国及其盟国取得了胜利。
Narrator: Though the President did not say so in his scripted remarks, a large banner behind him proclaimed the war over.
旁白：虽然总统在他的书面讲话中没有这么说，但他身后的一面大横幅宣告了战争结束。
Elisabeth Bumiller: Bush makes his speech and speech wasn’t quite as triumphal as the setting, but what people remember is the setting.
伊丽莎白·布米勒：布什发表演讲，演讲并不像背景那样胜利，但人们记住的是背景。
Narrator: Within weeks, however, the situation on the ground in Iraq had already taken an unanticipated turn.
旁白：然而，几周之内，伊拉克当地的局势就发生了意想不到的变化。
Gen.
将军
David Petraeus: What we'd been told to expect is we're going to defeat the Iraqi army.
大卫·彼得雷乌斯：我们被告知要击败伊拉克军队。
Many of them will come over to our side because they will welcome us.
他们中的许多人会站到我们这边，因为他们会欢迎我们。
Instead, of course, the minute Saddam left, his subordinates left, then their subordinates, and ultimately all order, all government collapsed.
当然，相反，萨达姆一离开，他的下属就离开了，然后是他们的下属，最终所有秩序、所有政府都崩溃了。
Andrew Card: We had been told there would be some Iraqi generals that would wave the white flag and come in behind us and say we’ll direct traffic, we’ll turn the water on, we’ll keep the electricity going, and the bureaucrats were good bureaucrats and they would show up and do their job.
安德鲁·卡德：我们被告知，会有一些伊拉克将军挥舞着白旗，来到我们身后，说我们将指挥交通，我们将打开水，我们将保持电力供应，官僚们都是好官僚，他们会出现并完成他们的工作。
And, the truth is, the white flags didn't get waved, the troops didn't show up, and the bureaucrats didn't return to work.
而事实是，白旗没有飘扬，军队没有出现，官僚也没有重返工作岗位。
Narrator: As Iraq ground to a halt and became a free-for-all, homes and stores, museums, hospitals and electric plants were looted.
旁白：随着伊拉克陷入停滞并陷入混战，房屋、商店、博物馆、医院和发电厂都遭到抢劫。
Robin Wright: The Iraqis, who had been repressed for so long, saw suddenly all the instruments of power, and of the state disappear, and this was a moment, whether it was to go in and get light bulbs or to steal a million dollars from a bank, was an opportunity a lot of people couldn’t avoid.
罗宾·赖特：长期受到镇压的伊拉克人突然看到所有权力工具和国家都消失了，这一刻，无论是进去拿灯泡还是从银行偷一百万美元，都是很多人无法回避的机会。
When you saw other people doing it, everyone started doing it.
当你看到其他人这样做时，每个人都开始这样做。
Peter Baker: The American government was there with its troops and didn’t think it was its job to be the police for Iraq.
彼得·贝克：美国政府派出军队在那里，但他们并不认为充当伊拉克警察是它的职责。
It wasn’t there to stop the looting.
它的存在并不是为了阻止抢劫。
SOT, Donald Rumsfeld: Freedom’s untidy and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
SOT，唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德：自由是不整洁和自由的人民可以犯错误、犯罪和做坏事的自由。
They’re also free to live their lives and do wonderful things.
他们也可以自由地生活并做美好的事情。
And that’s what’s going to happen here.
这就是这里将要发生的事情。
George Packer: Free people are free to make mistakes, as if we bore no responsibility, and as if this shouldn’t have been expected.
乔治·帕克：自由的人可以自由地犯错误，就好像我们不承担任何责任，就好像这是不应该发生的。
It was an incredible thing to say, as if the success of this unbelievably ambitious and risky enterprise didn’t depend on what was happening, right then, in the streets of Baghdad, as if it was already a done deal.
这是一件令人难以置信的事情，就好像这个令人难以置信的雄心勃勃和冒险的事业的成功并不取决于当时巴格达街头发生的事情，就好像它已经是板上钉钉的事情了。
Narrator: In Washington, hawks, led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, counseled Bush to pull US troops out of the country and turn the government over to a compliant Iraqi leader as quickly as possible.
旁白：在华盛顿，以副总统迪克·切尼和国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德为首的鹰派建议布什将美军撤出该国，并尽快将政府移交给顺从的伊拉克领导人。
Secretary of State Colin Powell and the president’s National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, warned that to leave so precipitously would spell disaster.
国务卿科林·鲍威尔和总统国家安全顾问康多莉扎·赖斯警告说，如此仓促地离开将带来灾难。
Lawrence Wilkerson: Rumsfeld and Cheney’s idea was “in and out.” And all of a sudden, Powell and Dr. Rice jump in and grab the president and say “No, you have occupational responsibilities under international law.
劳伦斯·威尔克森：拉姆斯菲尔德和切尼的想法是“进进出出”。突然，鲍威尔和赖斯博士跳了出来，抓住总统说：“不，根据国际法，你有职业责任。
We gotta stay.
我们得留下来。
We’ve got to try to do something for the Iraqi people and for Iraq.” Bush is undecided and all of a sudden the president leans, leans and makes a decision.
我们必须努力为伊拉克人民和伊拉克做点什么。”布什犹豫不决，总统突然做出了决定。
We’re staying.
我们留下来。
Narrator: Bush made the decision, but left the details to others.
旁白：布什做出了决定，但把细节留给了其他人。
Most importantly, he didn’t provide the extra troops needed for an occupation.
最重要的是，他没有提供占领所需的额外部队。
Andrew Card: There was a decision to be lean and count on others showing up to secure the peace, and I think that was probably naive.
安德鲁·卡德：我们决定采取精益行动，并依靠其他人的出现来确保和平，我认为这可能是天真的。
There was not as much discussion that I remember in the National Security Council about the process of organizing a government and identifying leaders.
我记得在国家安全委员会中并没有那么多关于组织政府和确定领导人的过程的讨论。
Narrator: Bush left the job of running Iraq to a civilian administrator, Jay Garner.
旁白：布什将管理伊拉克的工作交给了文职行政官员杰伊·加纳。
But, with no troops under his direct command, Garner was powerless to stop the looting.
但是，由于没有直接指挥的部队，加纳无力阻止抢劫。
Peter Baker: The problem was that they had underestimated the forces they were setting loose.
彼得·贝克：问题在于他们低估了他们所释放的力量。
This was a country that had been torn by sectarian differences for many years that have been kept under the boiling pot by a totalitarian dictatorship.
这是一个多年来因宗派分歧而撕裂的国家，并被极权独裁政权置于沸腾的锅底。
SOT, Reporter: Today, hundreds protested against the arrest by US soldiers of one of their religious leaders.
SOT，记者：今天，数百人抗议美国士兵逮捕他们的一名宗教领袖。
Peter Baker: Once we got rid of that, the sectarian differences suddenly came to the fore.
彼得·贝克：一旦我们摆脱了这一点，宗派差异就突然凸显出来。
Shiite, Kurdish, Sunni groups were now free to fight for power in the vacuum that had emerged with the toppling of the government.
什叶派、库尔德人和逊尼派团体现在可以在政府倒台后出现的真空中自由地争夺权力。
Narrator: As protests intensified and the looting worsened, Garner floundered.
旁白：随着抗议活动的加剧和抢劫的加剧，加纳陷入了困境。
So Bush decided to step in.
于是布什决定介入。
Rather than addressing the underlying issue of troop numbers, however, he chose to make a change in leadership.
然而，他没有解决部队数量的根本问题，而是选择改变领导层。
And just three weeks after Garner had arrived in Baghdad, Bush nominated a diplomat-turned-management -expert named Jerry Bremer, to replace him.
加纳抵达巴格达三周后，布什提名了一位外交官出身的管理专家杰里·布雷默接替他。
Peter Baker: Jerry Bremer had been a well-respected diplomat and lieutenant of Henry Kissinger, but had never done anything like what they were asking him to do and he becomes the viceroy in effect of occupied Iraq.
彼得·贝克：杰里·布雷默是一位受人尊敬的外交官，也是亨利·基辛格的副手，但他从未做过他们要求他做的事情，因此他成为了被占领伊拉克的总督。
SOT, President Bush: Today, it's my honor to announce that Jerry Bremer has agreed to become the presidential envoy to Iraq.
SOT，布什总统：今天，我很荣幸地宣布杰里·布雷默已同意担任驻伊拉克总统特使。
Narrator: After just one meeting, Bush had decided that Bremer was the man for the job, even though he had no experience in the Middle East.
旁白：经过一次会面，布什就认定布雷默是这份工作的最佳人选，尽管他在中东没有任何经验。
SOT, President Bush: He's a can-do type person.
SOT，布什总统：他是一个能干的人。
He shares the same values as most Americans share and that is our deep desire to have an orderly country in Iraq that is free and at peace.
他与大多数美国人有着相同的价值观，那就是我们深切渴望在伊拉克拥有一个自由、和平、有序的国家。
Lawrence Wilkerson: This is the dysfunctionality of the decision-making team again.
劳伦斯·威尔克森：这又是决策团队的功能失调。
Jerry Bremer gets called in because Jay Garner is not big enough, he’s not, you know, a name.
杰里·布雷默（Jerry Bremer）被叫来是因为杰伊·加纳（Jay Garner）不够大，你知道，他不是一个名字。
And the president tells Jerry in the Oval, you have carte blanche.
总统告诉椭圆形的杰里，你有全权委托。
Narrator: Bremer arrived in Baghdad with the full authority of Bush behind him.
旁白：布雷默在布什的全力支持下抵达巴格达。
The problem was Bush hadn’t clearly articulated what he wanted.
问题是布什没有明确表达他想要什么。
Robert Draper: Bush made the decision, very much like George W.
罗伯特·德雷珀：布什做出了这个决定，就像乔治·W·布什一样。
Bush, very much like this kind of Harvard Business School way of doing things, that, look, you know, I’m going to…
布什，非常喜欢哈佛商学院的这种做事方式，你看，你知道，我要……
I’m going to put the right guy there, and I’m going to leave the details to him.
我将把合适的人选放在那里，并将细节留给他。
SOT, Reporter: The new US civil administrator for Iraq meeting here with Iraqi leaders.
SOT记者：美国新任伊拉克民事行政长官在这里会见了伊拉克领导人。
BREMER: We agreed we need to do some work in restoring law and order.
布雷默：我们同意需要做一些恢复法律和秩序的工作。
Robert Gates: There was no decision made on a single strategy on how we’re going to do this, and then with the appointment of Bremer, it all got delegated to Baghdad.
罗伯特·盖茨：我们没有就如何做到这一点的单一战略做出决定，然后随着布雷默的任命，这一切都被委托给了巴格达。
Bremer used to brag that he was Bush’s man.
布雷默曾经吹嘘自己是布什的人。
Well, in practice, he was supposed to report to Rumsfeld, but Rumsfeld never felt like he had control over him, so…
好吧，实际上，他应该向拉姆斯菲尔德汇报，但拉姆斯菲尔德从来不觉得自己可以控制他，所以……
but at the end of the day the responsibility for that has to rest in the White House.
但归根结底，这件事的责任必须由白宫承担。
Narrator: Bremer moved immediately to assert his control.
旁白：布雷默立即采取行动，以维护自己的控制权。
Draper: Bremer makes very quickly a couple of extremely fateful decisions
德雷珀：布雷默很快做出了几个极其重大的决定
Narrator: His first order was to fire members of Saddam’s Ba’ath party from their jobs.
旁白：他的第一个命令是解雇萨达姆复兴党的成员。
Many were public servants and teachers, and Ba’athists in name only.
许多人是公务员和教师，只是名义上的复兴党主义者。
SOT, Iraqi Man: They didn't solve any problem.
SOT，伊拉克人：他们没有解决任何问题。
They only speaking and we didn't need speaking only.
他们只需要说话，而我们不需要说话。
We need works.
我们需要作品。
Narrator: A week later, Bremer issued his second order, which disbanded the entire Iraqi army, security and intelligence infrastructure.
旁白：一周后，布雷默发布了第二项命令，解散了整个伊拉克军队、安全和情报基础设施。
George Packer: Suddenly you had hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, armed Iraqis, with a very keen motive to try to make trouble for the Americans, and no stake in what the Americans said they were there to do.
乔治·帕克：突然之间，就有了数十万伊拉克人，他们是武装的伊拉克人，他们怀着非常强烈的动机试图给美国人制造麻烦，而美国人所说的他们来这里的目的与他们无关。
Narrator: Bremer’s decisions marked a radical change of course in Iraq and went directly against the plans that Bush had signed off on just weeks earlier.
旁白：布雷默的决定标志着伊拉克局势的彻底改变，并直接违背了布什几周前签署的计划。
But, comfortable with his decision to delegate authority to Bremer, Bush said nothing.
但是，布什对自己将权力下放给布雷默的决定感到满意，因此什么也没说。
Peter Baker: Bush gives a lot of leeway to Bremer.
彼得·贝克：布什给了布雷默很大的余地。
He believes he shouldn’t be over micromanaging from eight thousand miles away.
他认为他不应该在八千英里外进行过度微观管理。
And so, when people tell him, wait a second, why is Bremer doing this, he hasn’t cleared that with us, Bush backs him up.
因此，当人们告诉他，等一下，布雷默为什么要这样做时，他还没有向我们澄清这一点，布什支持他。
Bush stands by him.
布什站在他一边。
Narrator: As Iraq continued to spin out of control and Bremer struggled to restore order, the occupation entered a new phase.
旁白：随着伊拉克继续失控，布雷默努力恢复秩序，占领进入了一个新阶段。
SOT, Charles Gibson: : Today, American forces endured one of the most violent days since President Bush said the major fighting was over.
SOT，查尔斯·吉布森：今天，美国军队经历了自布什总统宣布主要战斗结束以来最暴力的日子之一。
Narrator: On May 26, a team of two American humvees was patrolling the highway between Baghdad and the airport when they drove over what appeared to be a backpack lying in the road.
旁白：5月26日，一队由两辆美国悍马车在巴格达和机场之间的高速公路上巡逻时，突然撞倒了躺在路上的一个似乎是背包的东西。
SOT, Pvt.
SOT，列兵。
Darren Meeks: The humvee in front of us, we seen it like, it hit like a bump and it exploded.
达伦·米克斯：我们面前的悍马车，我们看到它像一个肿块一样撞上然后爆炸了。
It’s about the biggest explosion I’ve seen since the war started.
这是自战争开始以来我见过的最大规模的爆炸。
It was a huge explosion.
这是一次巨大的爆炸。
Narrator: The explosion killed a 25-year-old Army private named Jeremiah D.
旁白：爆炸杀死了一名 25 岁的陆军二等兵 Jeremiah D.
Smith.
史密斯.
It was the first of what would become regular attacks on coalition forces using Improvised Explosive Devices or IEDs.
这是使用简易爆炸装置（IED）对联军进行定期攻击的第一次。
Ari Fleischer: Things started to really turn for the president.
阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer）：对于总统来说，事情开始真正发生转变。
After the war was over, after we “won,” after major combat was over, after we hoped war was over, war all of a sudden resumed.
战争结束后，我们“赢了”后，重大战斗结束后，我们希望战争结束后，战争突然又重新开始了。
Ari Fleischer: The Fedayeen and the now guerilla style attacks that increasingly started to take the lives of American servicemen and women in Iraq, it started to grow and grow and grow.
阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer）：敢死队和现在的游击式袭击开始越来越多地夺走伊拉克境内美国军人和妇女的生命，而且这种袭击开始不断增长、不断增长、不断增长。
SOT, Reporter: Yesterday, two ambushes left four American troops dead.
SOT记者：昨天，两次伏击导致四名美军死亡。
CNN: One US Special Operation soldier killed, eight others wounded ABC: Four dead and thirteen injured in three separate attacks
CNN：一名美国特种部队士兵死亡，八人受伤 ABC：三起独立袭击事件造成四人死亡、十三人受伤
SOT, Soldiers: Hurry up!
SOT，士兵们：快点！
Let’s go!
我们走吧！
Hey there are vehicles on fire!
嘿，有车辆着火了！
Narrator: In the eight weeks since Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech aboard the U.S.S.
旁白：布什在美国航空母舰上发表“使命完成”演讲以来的八周内
Lincoln, 67 American soldiers had died and another 201 had been injured.
林肯战役期间，67 名美国士兵死亡，另有 201 人受伤。
US forces were facing a well-organized insurgency spearheaded by former Iraqi soldiers that Bremer had dismissed.
美军面临着由布雷默解雇的前伊拉克士兵带头的组织严密的叛乱。
But in Washington, the president and his team refused to admit it.
但在华盛顿，总统和他的团队拒绝承认这一点。
SOT, Reporter: Can you tell us why you’re so reluctant to say that what’s going on in Iraq now is a guerilla war?
SOT，记者：您能告诉我们为什么您这么不愿意说伊拉克现在正在发生的是游击战吗？
Rumsfeld: Umm I’ll do my best…
拉姆斯菲尔德：嗯，我会尽力……
I guess the reason I don't use the phrase "guerrilla war" is because there isn't one, and it would be a misunderstanding and a miscommunication to you and to the people of the country and the world.
我想我之所以不使用“游击战争”这个词，是因为根本不存在“游击战争”，这对你、对全国人民和全世界人民来说都是一种误解和沟通不畅。
Narrator: But, for all the arguments over how to characterize the conflict, the uptick in attacks on American forces was undeniable.
旁白：但是，尽管对于如何描述这场冲突存在各种争论，但不可否认的是，针对美军的袭击有所增加。
SOT, Reporter: The White House is aware that governing Iraq and containing unrest through the hot summer months may be costly in American lives and critics will continue to pose the question of whether America won the war only to lose the peace.
SOT，记者：白宫意识到，在炎热的夏季管理伊拉克和遏制骚乱可能会让美国人付出高昂的生命代价，批评者将继续提出这样的问题：美国赢得战争是否只是为了失去和平。
Narrator: Three months in, George W.
旁白：三个月后，乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush’s war in Iraq was already very different from his father’s Gulf War.
布什的伊拉克战争与他父亲的海湾战争已经截然不同。
He had taken Baghdad with no clear objective and only one ally – the British.
他占领巴格达时没有明确的目标，只有一个盟友——英国。
This was in stark contrast to the international coalition that his father had assembled.
这与他父亲组建的国际联盟形成鲜明对比。
Now, facing growing difficulties, Bush doubled down on his commitment there, Instead of just disarming Saddam, he placed new emphasis on the goal of establishing a democracy in Iraq.
现在，面对日益严峻的困难，布什加倍努力，不再仅仅解除萨达姆的武装，而是将新的重点放在在伊拉克建立民主的目标上。
SOT (July 1, 2003), President Bush: Having liberated Iraq as promised, we will help that country to found a just and representative government, as promised.
SOT（2003 年 7 月 1 日），布什总统：按照承诺解放了伊拉克，我们将按照承诺帮助该国建立一个公正和具有代表性的政府。
Our goal is a swift transition to Iraqi control of their own affairs.
我们的目标是迅速让伊拉克控制自己的事务。
People of Iraq will be secure and the people of Iraq will run their own country.
伊拉克人民将获得安全，伊拉克人民将管理自己的国家。
Robert Draper: The president early on did see evidence that this was going to be a struggle, but he continually looked on the bright side of how Iraq would blossom after the invasion.
罗伯特·德雷珀：总统很早就看到了这将是一场斗争的证据，但他不断关注伊拉克在入侵后将如何蓬勃发展的光明一面。
George Packer: It has a quality in Bush that is appealing to some people, which is his optimism, his belief in the inherent goodness in people.
乔治·帕克：布什的一个品质吸引了一些人，那就是他的乐观主义，他相信人性本善。
But that very innocence about themselves, about America, about our capacity to do harm as well as good, was fatal.
但这种对自己、对美国、对我们做坏事和行善的能力的纯真是致命的。
I mean, it was a religious faith in America’s goodness.
我的意思是，这是对美国善良的宗教信仰。
And I think Bush saw himself and the country as agents of a great purpose, whose unimpeachable goodness would carry it through to the other side.
我认为布什将自己和国家视为伟大目标的推动者，其无可挑剔的善良将把这一目标带到另一边。
Narrator: As the attacks intensified, the non-stop questions about progress in the war began to exasperate the president.
旁白：随着袭击的加剧，有关战争进展的不间断的质疑开始激怒了总统。
SOT, Reporter: Today, President Bush said foreign fighters, Ba’ath party members and Iraqi criminals should take their best shot because US forces will answer.
SOT，记者：今天，布什总统表示，外国武装分子、阿拉伯复兴社会党成员和伊拉克罪犯应该尽最大努力，因为美军将会做出回应。
President Bush: There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely.
布什总统：有些人认为，如果他们攻击我们，我们可能会决定提前离开。
They don’t understand what they’re talking about if that’s the case.
如果是这样的话，他们不明白自己在说什么。
Let me finish.
让我说完。
There are some who feel like, you know, that the conditions are such that they can attack us there.
有些人觉得，你知道，他们可以在那里攻击我们。
My answer is ‘bring them on.’ We’ve got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.
我的回答是“让他们上来”。我们拥有应对安全局势所需的力量。
Ari Fleischer: As we left the Roosevelt Room, I walked back into the Oval with the president, and I said, “Mr. President, think of how ‘bring it on’ sounds to a mom or a wife who's got a husband or a son who's fighting for us in Iraq, bring it on?
阿里·弗莱舍：当我们离开罗斯福厅时，我和总统一起走回椭圆形大厅，我说：“总统先生，想想‘加油’对于一个有丈夫或儿子在伊拉克为我们而战的母亲或妻子来说听起来怎么样，加油吧？
You want to send that signal that...attack us?”
你想发出……攻击我们的信号吗？”
Peter Baker: It’s this cowboy persona that he projects, right.
彼得·贝克：他所展现的正是牛仔形象，对吧。
From his point of view, he’s trying to embolden his own troops.
从他的角度来看，他是在试图给自己的部队壮胆。
But it also projects a certain cockiness that strikes some as the wrong way to go.
但它也表现出一定的自负，这让一些人认为这是错误的做法。
He’s actually asking for a fight that’s not necessarily going to develop.
他实际上是在要求一场不一定会发展的战斗。
Narrator: With his daily briefings from Iraq containing a steady drumbeat of reports on casualties, Bush turned to a different mission: The AIDS crisis in Africa.
旁白：布什每天从伊拉克发布的简报中不断报道伤亡情况，之后他转向了另一个使命：非洲的艾滋病危机。
In Senegal, the first stop on a five-day trip to the continent, he visited Goree Island, where slaves had been weighed and measured before they departed through what was known as "The Door of No Return." SOT, President Bush: one of the largest migrations of history was also one of the greatest crimes of history
在塞内加尔，这是为期五天的非洲大陆之旅的第一站，他参观了戈雷岛，那里的奴隶在通过所谓的“不归之门”离开之前都经过了称重和测量。 SOT，布什总统：历史上最大的移民之一也是历史上最严重的罪行之一
Narrator: The heart of the trip was Bush’s announcement of a bold commitment of US aid to fight the pandemic.
旁白：此行的核心是布什宣布了美国抗击疫情援助的大胆承诺。
SOT, President Bush: Africa has the will to fight AIDS, but it needs the resources, as well.
SOT，布什总统：非洲有抗击艾滋病的意愿，但也需要资源。
(Applause.) Over the next five years, my country will spend $15 billion on the fight -- (applause) -- to fight AIDS around the world, with special focus here on the continent of Africa.
（掌声）在接下来的五年里，我国将花费150亿美元用于（掌声）在世界各地抗击艾滋病，特别是非洲大陆。
Narrator: Though there was little appetite in Congress for such a huge program of foreign aid, Bush forced the issue.
旁白：尽管国会对如此庞大的对外援助计划兴趣不大，但布什还是强行提出了这个问题。
The money was to support the care of ten million people living with HIV/AIDS, and provide antiretroviral drugs for two million people infected with HIV.
这笔资金将用于支持照顾 1000 万艾滋病毒/艾滋病患者，并为 200 万艾滋病毒感染者提供抗逆转录病毒药物。
The program became known by its acronym, PEPFAR.
该计划以其缩写词“PEPFAR”而闻名。
Josh Bolten: I: don't think the president expected, certainly none of us expected, that one of the main initiatives of the Bush administration would turn out to be an assault on the AIDS pandemic in Africa, but I think the president saw it as a moral imperative.
乔什·博尔滕：我：我认为总统没有预料到，当然我们都没有预料到，布什政府的主要举措之一会成为对非洲艾滋病流行的攻击，但我认为总统认为这是道义上的当务之急。
Michael Gerson: One of the essential commitments that he talked about again and again in the context of PEPFAR is the biblical phrase to whom much is given, much is required.
迈克尔·格尔森（Michael Gerson）：他在总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划中一次又一次谈到的基本承诺之一是《圣经》中的短语，“给予者多，要求者多”。
I think that explains a lot about the Bush presidency, this feeling that America is blessed and that we have a responsibility to others based on that blessing.
我认为这在很大程度上解释了布什总统的任期，即美国受到祝福的感觉，以及基于这种祝福我们对他人负有责任的感觉。
It’s comparable to the Peace Corps and other efforts that defined America’s role in the world.
它可以与和平队和其他定义美国在世界上的角色的努力相媲美。
Eugene Robinson: Not a lot of presidents can say credibly that a decision I took saved millions of lives, and that one did.
尤金·罗宾逊：没有多少总统能够可信地说我做出的决定拯救了数百万人的生命，而其中一位确实做到了。
It was just one of the biggest things that happened, in the last 20 or 30 years.
这只是过去 20 或 30 年来发生的最重大的事情之一。
SOT, Crowd: Bush must go!
SOT，人群：布什必须下台！
Bush must go!
布什必须下台！
Bush must go!
布什必须下台！
Now!
现在！
Male Protester: We’re going to chase Bush until we chase him out of Iraq.
男性抗议者：我们要追赶布什，直到把他赶出伊拉克。
Narrator: By June, opposition to the war was building at home and around the world.
旁白：到了六月，国内和世界各地的反战情绪正在兴起。
Narrator: At the root of the protesters’ anger was the belief that Bush had lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.
旁白：抗议者愤怒的根源在于他们相信布什在伊拉克拥有大规模杀伤性武器问题上撒了谎。
SOT, Rep.
SOT，众议员。
Dennis Kucinich: Why did the US go to war in Iraq?
丹尼斯·库西尼奇：美国为什么要对伊拉克发动战争？
9/11 was an excuse.
9/11只是一个借口。
No imminent threat.
没有迫在眉睫的威胁。
No weapons of mass destruction.
没有大规模杀伤性武器。
Now the administration keeps changing its story, but they can’t change the facts.
现在政府不断改变说法，但他们无法改变事实。
They led this nation to war...
他们带领这个国家走向战争......
Narrator: Inside the administration, officials were confident that they would find Saddam’s biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
旁白：在政府内部，官员们相信他们会找到萨达姆的生物、化学和核武器。
SOT (ABC This Week, March 30, 2003) Mr. Stephanopoulos: : Is it curious to you that, given how much control U.S. and coalition forces now have in the country, they haven't found any weapons of mass destruction?
SOT（美国广播公司本周，2003 年 3 月 30 日） 斯蒂芬诺普洛斯先生：您是否好奇，考虑到美国和联军现在对该国的控制程度，他们还没有发现任何大规模杀伤性武器？
Rumsfeld: Not at all.
拉姆斯菲尔德：一点也不。
The area in the south and the west and the north that coalition forces control is substantial.
联军控制的南部、西部和北部地区面积很大。
It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed.
它恰好不是大规模杀伤性武器散布的地区。
We know where they are.
我们知道他们在哪里。
They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
它们位于提克里特和巴格达周围的地区以及东、西、南和北的一些地区。
Narrator: As US forces took control of more of Iraq, Bush had an army unit search these areas for WMD.
旁白：随着美军控制了伊拉克的更多地区，布什派出一支军队在这些地区搜寻大规模杀伤性武器。
They scoured arms depots and abandoned bases, sending daily reports back to the White House.
他们搜查军火库和废弃基地，每天向白宫发送报告。
Ari Fleischer: I'll never forget, there was one meeting in the Oval Office where he was getting an update from the field about an Iraqi military base in the western portion of Iraq, in the middle of a desert, that was excessively reinforced, had a lot of people at it, and it just didn't seem right.
阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer）：我永远不会忘记，在椭圆形办公室举行的一次会议上，他从现场得到了关于伊拉克西部沙漠中部的一个伊拉克军事基地的最新情况，该基地加固过度，有很多人在场，但看起来不太对劲。
Why would they have, in the middle of nowhere, all these forces?
为什么他们会在荒无人烟的地方拥有如此多的力量？
And we thought, bing, we found it.
我们想，我们找到了它。
We thought we found where they've got the WMD.
我们以为我们找到了他们拥有大规模杀伤性武器的地方。
We thought all along that we were going to find them.
我们一直以为我们会找到他们。
Dan Bartlett: We were all...
丹·巴特利特：我们都……
continually stunned when week after week goes by and we haven’t found weapons of mass destruction.
当一周又一周过去，我们却没有发现大规模杀伤性武器时，我们总是感到震惊。
It…it…it literally felt like it was humanly impossible for us not to find anything.
它……它……从字面上感觉我们不可能找不到任何东西。
Narrator: As the search dragged on, Bush demanded to know exactly who was in charge.
旁白：随着搜索的拖延，布什要求确切地知道谁是负责人。
No one gave him an answer.
没有人给他答案。
Peter Baker: There’s this Keystone Cops moment where everybody is pointing at each other and nobody wants anything to do with it.
彼得·贝克：《基斯通警察》中有一个时刻，每个人都互相指责，但没有人愿意与之有任何关系。
Rumsfeld says I’m running a military operation here.
拉姆斯菲尔德说我正在这里进行军事行动。
I’m not the guy who’s supposed to be in charge of this.
我不是应该负责这件事的人。
Bremer is trying to constitute a new government.
布雷默正试图组建新政府。
That’s not his number one priority.
这不是他的第一要务。
Narrator: Frustrated, Bush brought in America’s leading expert on Iraq’s nuclear weapons, David Kay.
旁白：沮丧之余，布什请来了美国著名的伊拉克核武器专家戴维·凯。
Kay hadn’t been involved in making the case for the invasion.
凯没有参与为入侵辩护的过程。
But, in the 1990s, after the Gulf War, he had uncovered a secret Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
但在 20 世纪 90 年代，海湾战争结束后，他揭露了伊拉克的秘密核武器计划。
Now he was asked to pick up the search again.
现在他被要求重新进行搜索。
David Kay: The president was unhappy with the military’s role in doing it, and they wanted someone who had not been involved in the initial assessments.
大卫·凯：总统对军方在这方面所扮演的角色并不满意，他们想要一个没有参与初步评估的人。
And so, I said yes, foolishly, I guess.
所以，我说是的，我想这很愚蠢。
Narrator: In mid-June, as Kay prepared to travel to Baghdad, he went to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia to pore over the intelligence reports about Iraq’s WMD.
旁白：6月中旬，当凯准备前往巴格达时，他前往位于弗吉尼亚州兰利的中央情报局总部，仔细研究有关伊拉克大规模杀伤性武器的情报报告。
This was the same evidence that Secretary of State Colin Powell had used to make the case for war in his speech to the United Nations just four months earlier.
这与四个月前国务卿科林·鲍威尔在联合国演讲中用来论证战争的证据相同。
David Kay: It was literally a case of the hair on the back of your neck sort of goes up, you’re, something’s not right here, because it was hearsay, it was communication intercepts that were…
大卫·凯：这实际上是一个你脖子后面的头发竖起来的情况，你，这里有些不对劲，因为这是传闻，这是通信拦截......
nebulous is the most generous way, they were quite, like, unclear as to what they meant.
模糊是最慷慨的方式，他们很不清楚自己的意思。
They certainly didn’t seem to point necessarily to WMD.
他们似乎不一定指向大规模杀伤性武器。
Narrator: Once in Iraq, Kay found that Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, were monitoring his every move.
旁白：一到伊拉克，凯就发现副总统切尼和他的幕僚长斯库特·利比正在监视他的一举一动。
David Kay: I would be asleep and I’d get someone pounding on my door saying, “The White House is on the line.” It was usually Scooter Libby.
大卫·凯：我睡着了，有人敲我的门说：“白宫正在通话中。”通常是斯库特·利比。
And sometimes it was something as insane as a set of coordinates for where they thought the WMD was.
有时，这就像一组他们认为的大规模杀伤性武器所在位置的坐标一样疯狂。
Raw intelligence is something that you do not give to amateurs or the uninformed, because it’s easy to make mistakes.
原始情报是你不能给予业余爱好者或无知者的东西，因为它很容易犯错误。
We had enough to do without that sort of interference from Washington.
如果没有华盛顿的这种干涉，我们的工作已经够多了。
Narrator: Kay had a team of 1,400 experts looking for Saddam’s WMD.
旁白：凯率领一支由 1,400 名专家组成的团队寻找萨达姆的大规模杀伤性武器。
The longer he was in Iraq without announcing that he’d found them, however, the more the pressure grew on the administration to justify the invasion.
然而，他在伊拉克停留的时间越长，没有宣布他发现了他们，政府为入侵辩护的压力就越大。
SOT (June 9, 2003) Reporter: Sir, is U.S. credibility on the line over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
SOT (2003年6月9日) 记者：先生，美国在伊拉克大规模杀伤性武器问题上的信誉是否受到威胁？
President Bush: I'm not exactly sure what that means.
布什总统：我不太清楚这意味着什么。
I mean, Iraq had a weapons program.
我的意思是，伊拉克有一个武器计划。
Intelligence throughout the decade showed they had a weapons program.
整个十年的情报显示他们有一个武器计划。
I am absolutely convinced with time we'll find out that they did have a weapons program.
我绝对相信随着时间的推移我们会发现他们确实有一个武器计划。
Narrator: Then, in early July 2003, the American public saw the first crack in the case for war.
旁白：然后，2003年7月上旬，美国公众看到了战争案件的第一个裂痕。
SOT, Newscaster: Today, a former US ambassador said the administration may have taken the country to war under false pretenses.
SOT，新闻播音员：今天，一位前美国大使表示，政府可能以虚假借口将国家带入战争。
SOT, Newscaster: Did the Bush administration exaggerate some of the intelligence on Saddam’s weapons program in order to justify war with Iraq?
SOT，新闻播音员：布什政府是否夸大了有关萨达姆武器计划的一些情报，以便为伊拉克战争辩护？
Narrator: A retired US ambassador, Joseph Wilson, had been sent by the administration to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had sought to buy uranium there.
旁白：美国政府派遣退休的美国大使约瑟夫·威尔逊前往尼日尔调查有关伊拉克试图在那里购买铀的指控。
In a widely read op-ed piece in the New York Times, Wilson said the claim was false.
威尔逊在《纽约时报》发表的一篇广为人知的专栏文章中表示，这一说法是错误的。
Peter Baker: People often forget or underestimate how important it was, but it went to the heart of the Iraq question.
彼得·贝克：人们常常忘记或低估它的重要性，但它触及了伊拉克问题的核心。
Did the administration mislead the public in some way?
政府是否以某种方式误导了公众？
Did it intentionally deceive the American people in order to go to war?
是为了发动战争而故意欺骗美国人民吗？
Narrator: Furious at Wilson, the White House began publicly discrediting him and his conclusion.
旁白：白宫对威尔逊感到愤怒，开始公开质疑他和他的结论。
But the effort backfired and the fall-out further hurt Bush’s credibility.
但这一努力适得其反，其后果进一步损害了布什的信誉。
SOT, David Gregory: This week, the White House was forced to admit that the Iraq-Niger connection was bogus.
SOT，大卫·格雷戈里：本周，白宫被迫承认伊拉克与尼日尔的联系是伪造的。
As a result, critics have sharpened their charge that the administration may have misled the public in making the case for war.
结果，批评者尖锐地指责政府在宣扬战争理由时可能误导了公众。
SOT, Andrea Mitchell: New questions tonight whether the administration ignored its own experts to hype more alleged evidence against Saddam Hussein.
SOT，安德里亚·米切尔：今晚新的问题是，政府是否忽视了自己的专家，大肆宣传更多针对萨达姆·侯赛因的所谓证据。
Narrator: The final nail in the coffin of the hunt for Iraq’s WMD came in January 2004 when David Kay told Bush the intelligence reports had been wrong.
旁白：2004 年 1 月，大卫·凯告诉布什，情报报告是错误的，追捕伊拉克大规模杀伤性武器的行动被压垮了。
There were no WMD.
没有大规模杀伤性武器。
SOT [Diane Sawyer Interview] Sawyer: Fifty percent of the American people have said that they think the administration exaggerated the evidence going into the war with Iraq.
SOT [黛安·索耶采访] 索耶：百分之五十的美国人表示，他们认为政府夸大了伊拉克战争的证据。
Weapons of mass destruction, connection to terrorism.
大规模杀伤性武器，与恐怖主义的联系。
Are the American people wrong, misguided?
美国人民是否错了、被误导了？
Bush: There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a threat.
布什：毫无疑问，萨达姆侯赛因是一个威胁。
Sawyer: Again, I’m just trying to ask, and these are supporters, people who believed in the war who have asked the question.
索耶：再说一遍，我只是想问一下，这些是支持者，是相信战争的人，他们提出了这个问题。
BUSH: Well, you can keep asking the question, my answer is going to be the same: Saddam was a danger, and the world is better off ‘cause we got rid of him.
布什：嗯，你可以继续问这个问题，我的答案是一样的：萨达姆是一个危险，世界变得更好，因为我们摆脱了他。
Barbara Perry: It's hard for someone like George W.
芭芭拉·佩里：对于像乔治·W·布什这样的人来说，这很难。
Bush who views himself as a decider, who views himself as not swaying from side to side and seeing the world not in shades of gray, which it usually is, but seeing it in black and white terms.
布什认为自己是一个决策者，他认为自己不会左右摇摆，并且不会像通常那样以灰色阴影看待世界，而是以非黑即白的方式看待世界。
It's hard for him to say, I made a bad decision.
他很难说，我做了一个错误的决定。
George Packer: The harder it got, the more he bore down and persisted, because it was all a test of his resolve.
乔治·帕克：越是困难，他就越能坚持下去，因为这都是对他决心的考验。
It was all about his mettle.
这完全取决于他的勇气。
I think that happens to presidents during war.
我认为这种情况发生在战争期间的总统身上。
I mean, Johnson felt that Vietnam was a test of whether he could stick it out and not be the first American to lose a war, but it’s dangerous when it becomes personal.
我的意思是，约翰逊认为越南战争是一次考验，考验他是否能坚持下去，而不是成为第一个输掉战争的美国人，但当它变成针对个人的时候，这就很危险了。
It’s dangerous when you can’t allow doubt to enter, because doubt can lead to course corrections or changing your mind or not doing it in the first place, and none of that entered.
当你不允许怀疑进入时，这是危险的，因为怀疑可能会导致你改变方向或改变主意，或者一开始就不做，而这些都没有进入。
Narrator: As he’d done since childhood, George Bush deflected unpleasantness with humor to defuse the tension around the search for WMD.
旁白：正如乔治·布什从小就做的那样，他用幽默来转移不愉快的情绪，以化解围绕寻找大规模杀伤性武器的紧张气氛。
Peter Baker: There’s a White House Correspondents Dinner where the president is expected to give a humorous talk and he tries to make fun of it.
彼得·贝克：在一场白宫记者晚宴上，总统预计会发表一场幽默的演讲，而他却试图取笑这一点。
SOT, President Bush: Those weapons of mass destruction gotta be somewhere.
SOT，布什总统：那些大规模杀伤性武器一定在某个地方。
Peter Baker: In the room that night people laughed and thought it was funny, but by the next day a lot of people woke up and said there’s nothing funny about this.
彼得·贝克：那天晚上在房间里，人们大笑起来，认为这很有趣，但第二天很多人醒来后说这没什么好笑的。
Saddam Hussein was a bad guy and getting rid of him might or might not have been worth doing anyway, but that wasn’t the reason people thought that they were going to war.
萨达姆·侯赛因是一个坏人，摆脱他可能值得也可能不值得，但这并不是人们认为他们要发动战争的原因。
Robert Draper: I believe that George W.
罗伯特·德雷珀：我相信乔治·W.
Bush is an honest man, in the sense that he doesn't go around lying to people, except insofar as he’s not willing to face the truth.
布什是一个诚实的人，从某种意义上说，他不会四处撒谎，除非他不愿意面对真相。
That doesn't make him a liar, but it means sometimes that he’s saying things that aren’t true, and that’s what happens when you’re someone who is not fully in possession of the truth and not willing to engage in the rigors of finding out whether or not what you’re about to say is the truth.
这并不意味着他是一个骗子，但这意味着有时他说的是不真实的话，而当你是一个不完全掌握真相并且不愿意严格查明你要说的话是否是真相的人时，就会发生这种情况。
George Packer: : My view, in the great question of whether they were lying to the rest of us or lying to themselves, is that they were lying to themselves, and they were doing it because the alternative is difficult.
乔治·帕克：我认为，在他们是对我们其他人撒谎还是对自己撒谎这个重大问题上，他们是在对自己撒谎，他们这样做是因为其他选择很困难。
To face the truth, to change your mind, to change your actions didn’t fit their political plans.
面对事实，改变想法，改变行为，不符合他们的政治计划。
It didn’t fit their characters.
这不符合他们的性格。
Narrator: The ongoing war in Iraq was never far from Bush’s thoughts.
旁白：正在进行的伊拉克战争一直在布什的脑海中挥之不去。
And, by the spring of 2004, he was getting more and more reports about one town in particular -- Fallujah, the City of Mosques -- which had emerged as the epicenter of the Sunni insurgency against US forces.
到了 2004 年春天，他收到了越来越多关于一个城镇的报道——清真寺之城费卢杰——该城镇已成为针对美军的逊尼派叛乱的中心。
SOT, Reporter: Fallujah has been one of the most dangerous places in Iraq for US troops.
SOT记者：费卢杰一直是美军在伊拉克最危险的地方之一。
Protests against US forces here are frequent and sometimes violent.
这里针对美军的抗议活动频繁，有时甚至是暴力活动。
Narrator: On March 31, 2004, insurgents ambushed four Americans who worked for a U.S. military contractor, Blackwater.
旁白：2004年3月31日，叛乱分子伏击了为美国军事承包商黑水公司工作的四名美国人。
They were burned, and their charred bodies were dragged through the streets, then hanged from a bridge.
他们被烧毁，烧焦的尸体被拖过街道，然后吊在桥上。
Andrew Card: The president did not want it to be ignored.
安德鲁·卡德：总统不希望它被忽视。
This was not just another day in a battle.
这不仅仅是战斗中的又一天。
He wanted us to have a response, and he wanted people in Iraq to see that there was a response, but he also wanted the world to see that this wasn’t going to stand.
他希望我们能够做出回应，他希望伊拉克人民看到我们已经做出了回应，但他也希望全世界看到这不会持续下去。
SOT, President Bush: This collection of killers is trying to shake the will of the United States.
SOT，布什总统：这群杀手正试图动摇美国的意志。
America will never be intimidated by a bunch of thugs and assassins.
美国永远不会被一群暴徒和刺客吓倒。
Narrator: Usually content to delegate such decision-making to others, Bush instead ordered the commencement of a large scale attack on Fallujah over the objections of local Marine commanders.
旁白：布什通常满足于将此类决策权委托给其他人，但他不顾当地海军陆战队指挥官的反对，下令对费卢杰发动大规模攻击。
SOT, Reporter: The Marines have Humvee patrols going out across the city.
SOT，记者：海军陆战队有悍马车在整个城市巡逻。
And all day and all night they have come under fire.
他们整天整夜都受到炮火攻击。
Narrator: The political fallout was immediate.
旁白：政治影响是立竿见影的。
Some members of the interim Iraqi government resigned.
伊拉克临时政府的一些成员辞职。
Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush’s staunchest ally, counseled against the mission.
就连布什最坚定的盟友、英国首相托尼·布莱尔也反对这次任务。
Peter Baker: The Brits are saying wait a second, this is a disaster, we need to stop.
彼得·贝克：英国人说等一下，这是一场灾难，我们需要停止。
And then, Bush pulls back out.
然后，布什退出。
The sort of in and out, scattershot kind of decision on Fallujah is not his finest moment of the war, that’s for sure.
可以肯定的是，在费卢杰做出的那种进进出出、漫不经心的决定并不是他在战争中最好的时刻。
Robin Wright: Fallujah was emblematic of the fact the Bush administration didn’t understand Iraq.
罗宾·赖特：费卢杰象征着布什政府不了解伊拉克。
It saw Iraq only through the prism of Saddam Hussein, a dictator, and it knew so little about what Iraq was, who its people were, where their hearts were, what their identity sources were, what they wanted, that they really blew it.
它只是通过独裁者萨达姆·侯赛因的棱镜来看待伊拉克，而且它对伊拉克是什么、它的人民是谁、他们的心在哪里、他们的身份来源是什么、他们想要什么知之甚少，所以他们真的搞砸了。
Narrator: On the same day that Marines were pummelling the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah, American troops came under sustained attack from a Shia uprising in other parts of Iraq.
旁白：就在海军陆战队猛击逊尼派据点费卢杰的同一天，美军在伊拉克其他地区遭到什叶派起义的持续攻击。
Armed militants, led by a fiery cleric, Moqtada Al-Sadr, seized control of major towns in the south and even parts of Baghdad.
由脾气暴躁的教士穆克塔达·萨德尔领导的武装武装分子控制了南部的主要城镇，甚至巴格达的部分地区。
George Packer: The uprising was massive, and it was devastating for the Americans, because one sectarian enemy was a lot to handle, but two, and you pretty much have the whole of Iraq against you.
乔治·帕克：这场起义是大规模的，对美国人来说是毁灭性的，因为一个宗派敌人很难对付，但如果有两个，那么几乎整个伊拉克都会与你作对。
So, suddenly, what had seemed like a very painful, but slowly upward path toward reconstruction and creating a sovereign Iraqi government looked like just a war.
因此，突然之间，一条看似非常痛苦但缓慢向上的重建和建立伊拉克主权政府的道路看起来就像一场战争。
SOT, Female Reporter: This week has been one of the deadliest for US troops over the past year Male Reporter: Earlier today, at least one Marine died-- Female Reporter: -- killing two US servicemen--
SOT，女记者：本周是过去一年来美军伤亡最惨重的一周 男记者：今天早些时候，至少一名海军陆战队员死亡—— 女记者：——杀死了两名美国军人——
Narrator: As attacks on US troops intensified, questions about Bush’s handling of the war took a back seat in the media to profiles of American casualties.
旁白：随着对美军的袭击愈演愈烈，媒体对布什处理战争方式的质疑逐渐退居次要地位，而只关注美国伤亡情况。
SOT, Female Reporter: Beaver Dam is in mourning.
SOT，女记者：海狸坝正在哀悼。
One of its native sons perished serving his country in Iraq.
一名土生土长的儿子在伊拉克为国效力时丧生。
Male Reporter: A man who died too young, three days after his twenty fifth birthday.
男记者：一个过早去世的人，二十五岁生日三天后。
A devoted husband, loving son and brother.
一个忠诚的丈夫，慈爱的儿子和兄弟。
Woman: He loved music, he loved entertaining people, he did magic tricks.
女：他喜欢音乐，他喜欢娱乐人们，他会魔术。
Narrator: 148 soldiers were killed in April 2004 in more than 50 separate attacks -- more than all the casualties suffered in the original invasion.
旁白：2004 年 4 月，在 50 多次袭击中，148 名士兵丧生——比最初入侵中的伤亡人数还要多。
SOT, Male Reporter: By sunrise, two Americans and two suspected attackers had been killed--
SOT，男记者：到日出时，两名美国人和两名袭击嫌疑人已被杀——
Narrator: Aides often found President Bush staring at the list of casualties on the blue sheet, the first thing he saw when he arrived in the Oval Office each morning.
旁白：助手们经常发现布什总统盯着蓝单上的伤亡名单，这是他每天早上到达椭圆形办公室时看到的第一件事。
As he read the names, he knew that he would soon confront many of these soldiers’ grieving families.
当他读到这些名字时，他知道他很快就会面对这些士兵中许多悲伤的家人。
Josh Bolten: Whenever the president would travel outside of Washington we would always find out how many families of the fallen were present in that area and we would then invite them to visit with the president.
乔什·博尔滕：每当总统出访华盛顿以外的地方时，我们总是会查明该地区有多少阵亡者家属，然后我们会邀请他们与总统一起探望。
Sometimes it'd just be out in the hangar and he would listen to the families talk about their lost loved ones.
有时只是在机库里，他会听家人谈论他们失去的亲人。
Ari Fleischer: He sent these people to war.
阿里·弗莱舍（Ari Fleischer）：他派这些人去参战。
It was his decision that led to people being wounded or losing their lives, and he knew he had to join those families and take whatever it was those families wanted to say to him.
正是他的决定导致人们受伤或丧生，他知道他必须加入这些家庭，接受那些家庭想对他说的一切。
Sometimes it was loving.
有时它是有爱的。
Sometimes it was religious.
有时是宗教性的。
Sometimes it was compassionate.
有时也很富有同情心。
Sometimes it was angry, and he knew he had to take it.
有时它很生气，但他知道他必须承受。
Dana Perino: Most of the families were very happy to see the president, overjoyed, right, the honor, so great, but there was one family…
达纳·佩里诺：大多数家庭都很高兴见到总统，欣喜若狂，对吧，荣幸，太棒了，但是有一个家庭……
their son was not going to make it, he was on life support, and this mom was so mad, and she railed at the president and yelled and yelled, and he didn't try to leave, and the husband said, “Mr. President, thank you,” you know, and tried to calm his wife down.
他们的儿子活不下去了，他依靠生命维持系统，这位母亲非常生气，她对总统大喊大叫，他没有试图离开，丈夫说，“总统先生，谢谢你，”你知道，并试图让他的妻子平静下来。
The president said, it's okay, I...I can stay, and he said, no, we thank you and shook hands, continued on.
总统说，没关系，我……我可以留下来，他说，不，我们谢谢你，握了握手，继续前行。
We saw about five more patients after that.
此后我们又看了大约五名患者。
But I'll never forget that we get on the helicopter, Marine One, to head back, and he says that momma sure was mad at me, and he looked at me, and I said, yes, sir, and he looked out the window, and I saw this one tear came down his cheek, and he said, “And I don't blame her a bit.” And what I really remember, too, is that he never tried to wipe it away, and to me that just symboled that, like, he got it.
但我永远不会忘记，当我们登上海军陆战队一号直升机返回时，他说妈妈肯定生我的气了，他看着我，我说，是的，先生，他看着窗外，我看到一滴眼泪从他的脸颊上流下来，他说，“我一点也不责怪她。”我真正记得的是，他从来没有试图把它擦掉，对我来说，这只是象征着，就像，他明白了。
He really understood what he had asked of them, and we got back to the White House, and it was back to business.
他真的明白他对他们的要求，我们回到白宫，一切又回到正题。
Narrator: For all Bush’s efforts to focus on other issues, the fight against Al Qaeda and the war in Iraq required his full attention.
旁白：尽管布什努力把注意力集中在其他问题上，但打击基地组织和伊拉克战争需要他全神贯注。
In April 2004, the Washington Post obtained secret memos written after 9/11 which laid out a legal justification for using what Bush’s administration called ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques.
2004 年 4 月，《华盛顿邮报》获得了 9/11 事件后撰写的秘密备忘录，其中列出了使用布什政府所谓的“强化审讯”技术的法律依据。
They were designed to extract information about imminent attacks from a small number of Al Qaeda leaders being held in undisclosed locations around the world.
它们的目的是从被关押在世界各地秘密地点的少数基地组织领导人中获取有关即将发生的袭击的信息。
Dana Priest: They thought in those beginning days and even maybe the beginning years that there might be another attack any day now and they needed to figure out who this network was and how to find them and how to kill them.
达纳·普里斯特：在最初的日子里，甚至可能是最初的几年里，他们认为现在随时可能会发生另一次攻击，他们需要弄清楚这个网络是谁，以及如何找到他们以及如何杀死他们。
What they did with the captives is they hid them in foreign countries.
他们对俘虏所做的就是把他们藏在外国。
They didn’t want to allow the Red Cross or the UN to monitor their conditions.
他们不想让红十字会或联合国监控他们的状况。
They didn’t necessarily want to treat them humanely either and that’s where you get the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques.
他们也不一定想人道地对待他们，这就是所谓的增强审讯技术的来源。
Narrator: When news of the extreme techniques broke, Bush again dug in, defending his policy.
旁白：当极端技术的消息传出时，布什再次站出来捍卫他的政策。
SOT, President Bush: Thank you all.
SOT，布什总统：谢谢大家。
Reporter: Mr. President, I wanted to return to the question of torture.
记者：主席先生，我想回到酷刑问题。
What we've learned from these memos this week is that the Department of Justice lawyers and the Pentagon lawyers have essentially worked out a way that U.S. officials can torture detainees.
我们本周从这些备忘录中了解到，司法部律师和五角大楼律师基本上已经找到了一种美国官员可以折磨被拘留者的方法。
President Bush: We're a nation of law.
布什总统：我们是法治国家。
We adhere to laws.
我们遵守法律。
We have laws on the books.
我们有成文的法律。
You might look at those laws, and that might provide comfort for you.
您可以查看这些法律，这可能会给您带来安慰。
Lawrence Wilkerson: They had defined torture as organ failure or death.
劳伦斯·威尔克森：他们将酷刑定义为器官衰竭或死亡。
And so anything short of that, especially if it's monitored by a doctor so that the guy can't die, then that's not torture.
因此，如果没有做到这一点，特别是如果有医生的监控，这样这个人就不会死，那就不是酷刑。
So I think Bush is convinced that, although we're treating people harshly, we're not torturing anyone.
所以我认为布什确信，尽管我们对待人们很严厉，但我们并没有折磨任何人。
And you've got to really, really think about that hard because how on earth could anybody think that we weren't torturing anyone?
你必须非常非常认真地思考这一点，因为到底怎么会有人认为我们没有折磨任何人？
Narrator: As Bush’s war on terror grew, hundreds of low-level detainees were sent to Guantanamo Bay.
旁白：随着布什反恐战争的加剧，数百名低级囚犯被送往关塔那摩湾。
Many had nothing to do with Al Qaeda or the attacks of 9/11.
其中许多与基地组织或 9/11 袭击无关。
Still, soldiers began using enhanced interrogation techniques on these detainees too.
尽管如此，士兵们也开始对这些被拘留者使用强化审讯手段。
All this was kept secret until the morning of April 28, 2004.
这一切一直保密到2004年4月28日上午。
SOT, Wolf Blitzer: The Arab world woke up today to shocking photos that apparently show US troops abusing detainees at a prison outside Baghdad.
SOT，沃尔夫·布利策：今天，阿拉伯世界一觉醒来，看到了令人震惊的照片，这些照片显然显示美军在巴格达郊外的一所监狱虐待被拘留者。
Narrator: With the insurgency in Iraq gaining ground, American troops had been filling up the prison called Abu Ghraib with suspected bomb makers and guerilla fighters.
旁白：随着伊拉克叛乱活动的蔓延，美国军队在阿布格莱布监狱里塞满了疑似炸弹制造者和游击队员。
For months, reports of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib had made their way up the chain of command all the way to Secretary Rumsfeld, who had done little until dozens of explosive photos were leaked to the press.
几个月来，有关阿布格莱布监狱虐待囚犯的报道一直通过指挥系统一直传到国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德，而拉姆斯菲尔德在数十张爆炸性照片被泄露给媒体之前几乎没有采取任何行动。
Peter Baker: Some of those prisoners were piled on top of each other naked.
彼得·贝克：有些囚犯赤身裸体地叠在一起。
The most horrific photograph shows one of the Iraqi detainees standing on a box and he had been told if he fell off the box he would be electrocuted.
最恐怖的照片显示，一名伊拉克被拘留者站在一个盒子上，他被告知如果他从盒子上掉下来，他就会触电身亡。
SOT, Wolf Blitzer (CNN): : The pictures have led to charges against six United States soldiers and the images may have damaged the American mission in Iraq.
SOT，沃尔夫·布利策 (CNN)：这些照片导致对六名美国士兵提出指控，并且这些图像可能损害了美国在伊拉克的使命。
SOT, Translatior for Iraqi Man: It’s wrong, wrong, 100% and a crime, says Khalil.
SOT，伊拉克人的翻译：哈利勒说，这是错误的，错误的，100%，而且是犯罪。
You came to liberate us from an unjust dictator, who killed and tortured us.
你们是来把我们从不公正的独裁者手中解放出来的，他杀害并折磨了我们。
Narrator: Later investigations would reveal that the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was a direct result of Bush’s decisions.
旁白：后来的调查表明，阿布格莱布监狱虐待囚犯的行为是布什决定的直接结果。
Commanders in Iraq were advised to ‘Gitmo-ize’ interrogations there to gain intelligence on the insurgency.
伊拉克指挥官被建议将那里的审讯“关塔那摩化”，以获取有关叛乱活动的情报。
Dana Priest: What we found was that there was a migration of the tactics used by a small number of CIA operatives against the suspects in the black sites.
达纳·普里斯特：我们发现，少数中央情报局特工针对黑网站中的嫌疑人所使用的策略发生了迁移。
It migrated over to this unit of low-level soldiers not trained in interrogations or even prisoner guarding.
它转移到了这支低级士兵队伍中，他们没有接受过审讯甚至看守囚犯的训练。
They were bored and cruel.
他们感到无聊和残忍。
Elisabeth Bumiller: Abu Ghraib was devastating for the administration.
伊丽莎白·布米勒：阿布格莱布监狱对政府来说是毁灭性的。
It showed the kind of rot that was occurring in Iraq under American occupation, and it showed how far off we had come from American ideals.
它显示了美国占领下的伊拉克正在发生的腐败现象，也显示了我们离美国的理想有多远。
Narrator: The behavior of American soldiers at Abu Ghraib shook Bush, but, to him, there was no connection with his decision to approve harsh interrogation techniques on Al Qaeda suspects.
旁白：阿布格莱布监狱的美国士兵的行为震惊了布什，但对他来说，这与他批准对基地组织嫌疑人采取严厉审讯手段的决定无关。
SOT (4/30/04), President Bush: I didn’t like it one bit.
SOT (4/30/04)，布什总统：我一点也不喜欢它。
But I also want to remind people that those few people who did that do not reflect the nature of the men and women we’ve sent overseas.
但我也想提醒人们，那些少数这样做的人并不能反映我们派往海外的男女的本质。
Narrator: With no satisfactory response forthcoming from the Secretary of Defense, calls for Rumsfeld’s resignation mounted.
旁白：由于国防部长没有做出令人满意的回应，要求拉姆斯菲尔德辞职的呼声越来越高。
SOT, Sen.
SOT，参议员。
Ted Kennedy: I think the President of the United States should fire the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld.
特德·肯尼迪：我认为美国总统应该解雇国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德。
Congress Woman Jackson: I asked the Speaker of the House to command an open session here on the floor of the House for Secretary Rumsfeld to come and tell us why he was hiding reports for two months, why no one knew about the reports and why these kinds of heinous and ridiculous acts are going on.
国会女议员杰克逊：我要求众议院议长在众议院召开一次公开会议，让拉姆斯菲尔德部长来告诉我们为什么他两个月来隐藏报告，为什么没有人知道这些报告，以及为什么会发生这种令人发指和荒谬的行为。
We want peace over war...
我们要的是和平，而不是战争……
Narrator: Twelve days after the Abu Ghraib images went public, Bush met with his secretary of defense.
旁白：阿布格莱布监狱图像公开十二天后，布什会见了他的国防部长。
Rumsfeld handed Bush a letter of resignation, but the President refused it.
拉姆斯菲尔德向布什递交了辞职信，但总统拒绝了。
Instead, with Rumsfeld at his side, he praised his Defense Secretary in front of the assembled press corps.
相反，在拉姆斯菲尔德身边，他在聚集的记者团面前赞扬了他的国防部长。
SOT, President Bush: Mr. Secretary, thank you for your hospitality.
SOT，布什总统：国务卿先生，感谢您的盛情款待。
And thank you for your leadership.
感谢您的领导。
You are courageously leading our nation in the war against terror.
您勇敢地领导我们的国家进行反恐战争。
You're doing a superb job.
你做得非常出色。
You are a strong secretary of defense, and our nation owes you a debt of gratitude.
您是一位强有力的国防部长，我们的国家欠您一份感激之情。
Dana Priest: On Abu Ghraib really nobody is held responsible.
达纳·普里斯特：在阿布格莱布监狱，确实没有人承担责任。
There are charges against the low-level soldiers that carried this out, but, from Rumsfeld on down, nothing happens.
有人对实施这一行动的低级士兵提出指控，但从拉姆斯菲尔德以下，什么也没发生。
On the contrary, Bush exonerates him in public.
相反，布什在公开场合为他开脱。
Narrator: No one was held accountable for the program of torture or enhanced interrogation at the black sites or the prison at Guantanamo Bay either.
旁白：也没有人对黑色地点或关塔那摩湾监狱的酷刑或强化审讯计划负责。
Bush and most of the president’s closest advisers held to a deep-rooted conviction that the brutal interrogation techniques were necessary.
布什和总统大多数最亲密的顾问都坚信，残酷的审讯手段是必要的。
SOT (September 6, 2006), President Bush: : I can say that questioning the detainees in this program has given us information that has saved innocent lives by helping us stop new attacks.
SOT（2006 年 9 月 6 日），布什总统： ：我可以说，在该计划中询问被拘留者为我们提供了信息，通过帮助我们阻止新的袭击，拯救了无辜的生命。
The procedures were tough and they were safe and lawful and necessary.
程序很严格，而且安全、合法、必要。
Narrator: When the US Senate conducted an investigation of the interrogation program, however, it found that the tactics had done untold damage to America and had not been effective in averting attacks, despite claims by the CIA.
旁白：然而，当美国参议院对审讯计划进行调查时，他们发现，尽管中央情报局声称，这种策略对美国造成了难以估量的损害，而且并没有有效避免袭击。
Eugene Robinson: It’s not legal.
尤金·罗宾逊：这是不合法的。
And whether you call it enhanced interrogation or whatever it’s not legal under US law, it’s not legal under international law, and it’s certainly, I would say to George W.
无论你称其为加强审讯，还是任何在美国法律下不合法的行为，在国际法下它都是不合法的，而且我想对乔治·W·布什说，这当然是合法的。
Bush, not legal under God’s law.
布什，根据上帝的法律，不合法。
The torture was just a stain on our national soul.
酷刑只是我们民族灵魂的污点。
Lawrence Wilkerson: There are thirty-eight coroner’s reports, thirty-eight that say: “homicide.” We killed thirty-eight people in detention.
劳伦斯·威尔克森：有三十八份验尸报告，其中三十八份写着：“他杀”。我们在拘留期间杀死了三十八人。
Now only a few of those have been revealed and a few people have been punished for it.
现在只有少数人被揭露，少数人因此受到惩罚。
But that’s the ultimate torture, I mean, that’s even their definition of torture.
但这是最终的酷刑，我的意思是，这甚至是他们对酷刑的定义。
We murdered people.
我们杀了人。
Dana Priest: I don’t think there’s any evidence that torture or the black sites kept us safer.
达纳·普里斯特：我认为没有任何证据表明酷刑或黑网站让我们更安全。
On the contrary, I think there's a lot of evidence that it made it much more dangerous for every American who went overseas, who fought overseas because the stories that came out about the Abu Ghraib mistreatment and the Guantanamo mistreatment were the best recruiting tools that Al-Qaeda ever got.
相反，我认为有很多证据表明，这对每一个出国、在海外作战的美国人来说都变得更加危险，因为有关阿布格莱布虐待事件和关塔那摩虐待事件的报道是基地组织获得的最好的招募工具。
No question about that.
毫无疑问。
They have picked up people on the battlefield, they’ve listened to people talking through surveillance and they absolutely know that that mistreatment fueled a new generation of recruits and they are still using all those images to do that.
他们在战场上抓到了人，他们通过监视听到了人们的谈话，他们绝对知道这种虐待刺激了新一代新兵的发展，他们仍然在使用所有这些图像来做到这一点。
Narrator: With the Iraq war taking such a dark turn, Bush was tested in ways that he had never anticipated.
旁白：随着伊拉克战争出现如此黑暗的转折，布什受到了他从未预料到的考验。
He turned to history, devouring books on wartime presidents, most notably Abraham Lincoln.
他转向历史，如饥似渴地阅读有关战时总统的书籍，其中最著名的是亚伯拉罕·林肯。
In public he was careful to keep such introspection hidden, always looking ahead, and never second-guessing decisions he’d made, despite mounting pressure to acknowledge mistakes.
在公开场合，他小心翼翼地隐藏着这种自省，总是向前看，从不事后批评自己所做的决定，尽管承认错误的压力越来越大。
Bartlett: I remember vividly a primetime press conference in the East Room.
巴特利特：我清楚地记得在东厅举行的黄金时段新闻发布会。
SOT (April 13, 2004), John Dickerson: Mr. President.
SOT（2004 年 4 月 13 日），约翰·迪克森：总统先生。
After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?
9/11之后，你会说你最大的错误是什么？你从中吸取了哪些教训？
President Bush: Hmmm.
布什总统：嗯。
I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it.
我希望你能提前给我这个书面问题，这样我就可以做好计划。
Dan Bartlett: I believe it was John Dickerson who posed this question, and it really got the president in one of those cases that he sometimes would call, “Well, I got myself in a rhetorical cul-de-sac.”
丹·巴特利特：我相信是约翰·迪克森提出了这个问题，这确实让总统陷入了他有时所说的“嗯，我让自己陷入了修辞上的死胡同”。
SOT, President Bush: [Pause] John, I’m sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way or that way.
SOT，布什总统：[停顿]约翰，我相信历史学家回顾过去会说，天哪，他本可以这样或那样做得更好。
Uh --
呃——
Dan Bartlett: But what he was tempering, that he did not and would not do, is to call this a war a mistake.
丹·巴特利特：但他正在锻炼的，他没有也不会做的，就是称这是一场战争是一个错误。
SOT, President Bush: You know, I just— I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn’t yet.
SOT，布什总统：你知道，我只是——我确信在这次新闻发布会期间，我的脑海中会突然浮现出一些东西，我面临着试图给出答案的压力，但现在还没有。
Peter Baker: He thinks that what they are trying to say is it was a mistake to go to war.
彼得·贝克：他认为他们想说的是发动战争是一个错误。
He won’t admit that.
他不会承认这一点。
That’s not something he will say.
这不是他会说的话。
So he stumbles over the answer and it becomes kind of this indelible moment of his presidency.
所以他结结巴巴地给出了答案，这成为了他总统任期中不可磨灭的时刻。
Narrator: As the summer of 2004 approached, Bush turned his attention away from Iraq and began planning for his re-election campaign.
旁白：2004年夏天临近，布什将注意力从伊拉克上移开，开始筹划连任竞选。
Narrator: After all the difficulties with the war, he relished traveling the country and being among his supporters.
旁白：在经历了战争带来的所有困难之后，他开始享受全国旅行并成为他的支持者之一。
Tim Naftali: There was a lot riding on the ‘04 campaign, for George W.
蒂姆·纳夫塔利（Tim Naftali）：对于乔治·W·布什（George W.
Bush and for his father.
布什和他的父亲。
This would be the vindication of the Bush’s.
这将是布什的平反。
The Adams, the only other family to produce two presidents, they were two one-term presidents.
亚当斯家族是唯一产生过两位总统的家族，他们是两位一届总统。
If George W Bush won in ‘04, the Bush’s would have achieved something that no other political family had in American history: reelection.
如果乔治·W·布什在04年获胜，布什家族将实现美国历史上任何其他政治家族都没有做到的事情：连任。
Narrator: With America so deeply polarized over Iraq, Bush and his team knew that re-election would be a struggle.
旁白：由于美国在伊拉克问题上两极分化严重，布什和他的团队知道连任将是一场斗争。
Karl Rove: Bush's approval rating is at 63 in the spring of 2003 and by election day it was 51.
卡尔·罗夫：布什的支持率在 2003 年春季为 63，到选举日为 51。
Now we, when we planned for the reelection we did not think, you know, that the glory days, you know, are gonna last forever.
现在，当我们计划连任时，我们并没有想到，你知道，辉煌的日子会永远持续下去。
We knew we were in for a tough race and planned accordingly.
我们知道我们将面临一场艰苦的比赛，并制定了相应的计划。
Narrator: Bush and Rove decided to energize their base by having the president come out forcefully against same-sex marriage.
旁白：布什和罗夫决定通过让总统强烈反对同性婚姻来激励他们的支持者。
He called for a constitutional amendment and Republicans placed votes on the ballot in several key states.
他呼吁修改宪法，共和党人在几个关键州进行了投票。
Naftali: And he allowed his political guru Karl Rove to play on misunderstanding and bigotry.
纳夫塔利：他允许他的政治大师卡尔·罗夫利用误解和偏执。
And it was done cynically, in order to ensure turnout, in places where opposition to the war made George W.
在乔治·W·布什(George W.
Bush’s chances iffy.
布什的机会渺茫。
Narrator: Opposition to the Iraq War had become a defining issue for Democrats, and their candidate, Senator John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran, made it the centerpiece of his campaign.
旁白：反对伊拉克战争已经成为民主党的一个决定性问题，他们的候选人、越战老兵、参议员约翰·克里(John Kerry)将其作为竞选的核心。
SOT, John Kerry: Now, we realize the president’s misled us on weapons, misled us on the reasons, misled us on a host of different things.
SOT，约翰·克里：现在，我们意识到总统在武器问题上误导了我们，在原因上误导了我们，在许多不同的事情上误导了我们。
Narrator: Bush focused his campaign not on the war in Iraq, but on the continuing threat of terrorism.
旁白：布什的竞选重点不是伊拉克战争，而是恐怖主义的持续威胁。
SOT, President Bus: h (campaign event): After September the 11th, we could not fail to imagine that a brutal tyrant who hated America had ties to terror, had used weapons of mass destruction, might use those weapons or share the capability of those weapons with a terrorist enemy.
SOT，巴斯总统：h（竞选活动）：9 月 11 日之后，我们不能不想象，一个憎恨美国的残暴暴君与恐怖分子有联系，曾经使用过大规模杀伤性武器，可能会使用这些武器或与恐怖主义敌人分享这些武器的能力。
(Cheers) The Iraqi people are free and America and the world are safer.
（欢呼）伊拉克人民自由了，美国和世界更加安全。
Peter Baker: Do you want somebody who is going to protect you or not.
彼得·贝克：你是否想要有人来保护你？
I’m the one who’s going to protect you.
我是那个会保护你的人。
That other guy, John Kerry, is weak and he’s not going to protect you.
另一个人，约翰·克里，很弱，他不会保护你。
Narrator: Bush also knew he had to define his opponent before he was able to establish himself on the national stage.
旁白：布什也知道他必须先定义他的对手，然后才能在国家舞台上站稳脚跟。
That task was taken on by Vice President Cheney.
这项任务由副总统切尼承担。
SOT, Cheney: Senator Kerry has also said that if he were in charge, he would fight a “more sensitive” war on terror.
SOT，切尼：参议员克里还表示，如果他掌权，他将打一场“更敏感”的反恐战争。
[Laughter] Those who threaten us and kill innocents around the world do not need to be treated more sensitively.
[笑声] 那些威胁我们并在世界各地杀害无辜者的人不需要受到更敏感的对待。
They need to be destroyed.
他们需要被摧毁。
[Applause]
[鼓掌]
Peter Baker: What Bush does is turns this war hero into a symbol of defeatism.
彼得·贝克：布什所做的就是将这位战争英雄变成失败主义的象征。
And it sells and it resonates in a country that is still looking for security.
它在一个仍在寻求安全的国家中大受欢迎并引起共鸣。
Narrator: Still, as Kerry gained in the polls, an obscure group, based in Texas, began airing ads attacking his military record.
旁白：尽管如此，随着克里在民意调查中的支持率上升，一个总部位于德克萨斯州的无名组织开始播放攻击他的军事记录的广告。
[SOT] Swift Boat Veterans For Truth Ad: Veteran: John Kerry betrayed the men and women he served with in Vietnam.
[SOT] 快艇退伍军人寻求真相广告：退伍军人：约翰·克里背叛了与他一起在越南服役的男女。
Veteran: He’s dishonored his country.
退伍军人：他玷污了他的国家。
He most certainly did.
他肯定做到了。
Veteran: I served with John Kerry.
老兵：我曾与约翰·克里一起服役。
John Kerry cannot be trusted.
约翰·克里不可信任。
Ron Suskind: I mean, man alive, it was a classic Bush race, kill or be killed.
罗恩·苏斯金德：我的意思是，活着的人，这是一场经典的布什竞选，要么杀人，要么被杀。
Narrator: : When critics denounced the ad as a vicious smear on a veteran, the Bush campaign denied knowing anything about it.
旁白：：当批评者谴责这则广告是对退伍军人的恶意诽谤时，布什竞选团队否认对此一无所知。
SOT Bill O’Reilly: You didn’t know anything about the Swift Boat ads before they went on air, did you?
SOT Bill O’Reilly：在 Swift Boat 广告播出之前，您对它们一无所知，是吗？
President Bush: No, I didn’t.
布什总统：不，我没有。
Bill O’Reilly: Karl Rove know anything about it.
比尔·奥莱利：卡尔·罗夫对此一无所知。
President Bush: Don’t think so.
布什总统：不这么认为。
Bill O’Reilly: Hmmm.
比尔·奥莱利：嗯。
President Bush: In other words, are you asking whether they coordinated this with our campaign?
布什总统：换句话说，你是在问他们是否与我们的竞选活动相协调？
Bill O’Reilly: No, whether they gave you a heads up they were going to do it.
比尔·奥莱利：不，无论他们是否提前通知你，他们都会这样做。
President Bush: Not to my knowledge.
布什总统：据我所知，没有。
R.G.
R.G.
Ratcliffe: You look for your opponent’s strength, and then you try to make it a...a liability.
拉特克利夫：你寻找对手的力量，然后你试图让它成为……一种负担。
You couldn't put Rove or Bush’s fingerprints on it, and yet, at the same time, it just has the complete aura of having originated that way.
你无法在上面留下罗夫或布什的指纹，但与此同时，它却完全具有这种起源的光环。
And particularly since the whole thing came out of Texas.
尤其是自从整件事都发生在德克萨斯州之后。
Narrator: The attack on Kerry’s war record helped neutralize one of Bush’s most glaring vulnerabilities: his preferential treatment in avoiding the draft as a National Guard pilot.
旁白：对克里战争记录的攻击有助于消除布什最明显的弱点之一：他作为国民警卫队飞行员避免征兵的优惠待遇。
Peter Baker: It’s a kind of counter intuitive argument to some extent because it’s Kerry who of course had been a veteran of combat in Vietnam and Bush had not.
彼得·贝克：在某种程度上，这是一种反直觉的论点，因为克里当然是越战老兵，而布什却不是。
He had been at home in the Texas Air National Guard, but Bush makes the case that he is the only one who can defend the country at a perilous moment and that Kerry would weaken our defenses.
他曾在德克萨斯州空军国民警卫队服役，但布什表示，他是唯一能够在危险时刻保卫国家的人，克里会削弱我们的防御。
Narrator: Bush hit his final campaign stop in Ohio and headed back to the White House to watch the returns come in.
旁白：布什在俄亥俄州完成了他竞选的最后一站，然后返回白宫观看选举结果。
The early exit polls had Kerry comfortably ahead, but that changed as the evening wore on.
早期的出口民调显示克里轻松领先，但随着晚间的推移，情况发生了变化。
SOT, Tom Brokaw: At this stage in the game, John Kerry and George Bush are getting the same states that Al Gore and George Bush got four years ago.
SOT，汤姆·布罗考：在游戏的这个阶段，约翰·克里和乔治·布什所获得的状态与四年前阿尔·戈尔和乔治·布什所获得的状态相同。
It comes back down to Florida, Florida, Florida.
回到佛罗里达，佛罗里达，佛罗里达。
And this time you add its twin, Ohio.
这次您添加了它的双胞胎，俄亥俄州。
Narrator: With the race still uncertain, Bush went to bed.
旁白：由于比赛仍不确定，布什上床睡觉了。
Finally, at around 11am the following day, as Ohio remained in the Republican column, Kerry called the President to congratulate him on his victory.
最后，第二天上午 11 点左右，由于俄亥俄州仍留在共和党阵营中，克里致电总统祝贺他的胜利。
Andrew Card: It was funny.
安德鲁·卡德：这很有趣。
The Oval Office setting was much calmer than what was happening in any other room in the White House.
椭圆形办公室的环境比白宫任何其他房间都要平静得多。
He was not overly exuberant.
他并不过分兴奋。
He was kind of, we did it, and he almost seemed as if I’ve got to start working on my second term.
他是有点，我们做到了，他几乎看起来好像我必须开始我的第二个任期。
I’ve got to get to work.
我得去上班了。
Elisabeth Bumiller: It’s amazing he won.
伊丽莎白·布米勒：他赢了真是太棒了。
By any account, George Bush should’ve lost that election, given all the things he was facing, all the headwinds --
无论如何，考虑到乔治·布什面临的所有事情、所有逆风，他应该输掉那次选举——
Elisabeth Bumiller: ...and, yet, John Kerry was not a strong candidate, and the nation was still reacting to 9/11.
伊丽莎白·布米勒 (Elisabeth Bumiller)：……然而，约翰·克里 (John Kerry) 并不是一个强有力的候选人，而且整个国家仍在对 9/11 做出反应。
There was still fear about what could happen.
人们仍然担心会发生什么。
SOT, President Bush: There’s an old saying: do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.
SOT，布什总统：有句老话：不要祈求与你的权力同等的任务，而是祈求与你的任务同等的权力。
In four historic years, America has been given great tasks and faced them with strength and courage.
在历史性的四年里，美国被赋予了伟大的任务，并以力量和勇气面对它们。
Our people have restored the vigor of this economy and shown resolve and patience in a new kind of war.
我们的人民已经恢复了经济的活力，并在新型战争中表现出了决心和耐心。
Our military has brought justice to the enemy and honor to America.
我们的军队给敌人带来了正义，给美国带来了荣誉。
[Cheers]
[干杯]
Ron Suskind: He comes out of it, he wins and he wins it using a playbook which is not all that dissimilar from what gets him elected president: confidence.
罗恩·萨斯金德（Ron Suskind）：他走出困境，他赢了，他用一套剧本赢得了胜利，这与他当选总统的秘诀并没有什么不同：信心。
I’m your man.
我是你的男人。
I am certain, unflappable, and sharp in my focus.
我很确定，镇定自若，注意力集中。
You know, there he is, W.
你知道，他就在那里，W.
And he kind of moves out into his own sunlight at that point.
那时他有点走向自己的阳光。
SOT, President Bush: Thank you all.
SOT，布什总统：谢谢大家。
Please be seated.
请入座。
Yesterday, I pledged to reach out to the whole nation and today I’m proving that-- I’m willing to reach out to everybody by including the White House press corps.
昨天，我承诺向全国伸出援手，今天我要证明这一点——我愿意通过包括白宫记者团在内的方式向所有人伸出援手。
(Laughter)
（笑声）
Narrator: George W.
旁白：乔治·W.
Bush had always craved approval -- from his parents, from his classmates, from voters.
布什一直渴望得到父母、同学和选民的认可。
With his reelection, he believed he had finally earned it.
随着他再次当选，他相信自己终于赢得了选举。
No longer was he the “illegitimate president” whose claim to power rested on a disputed Supreme Court decision.
他不再是那个以有争议的最高法院判决为依据声称掌权的“非法总统”。
Now, he believed he had the chance to wipe the slate clean in Iraq and bring home the troops in victory rather than humiliating defeat.
现在，他相信自己有机会在伊拉克洗清历史，让军队以胜利而不是耻辱性的失败带回家。
[SOT] Bush Addresses White House Press Corps: Bush: You asked do I feel free.
[SOT] 布什向白宫记者团发表讲话： 布什：你问我是否感到自由。
Let me put it to you this way.
让我这样告诉你。
I earned capital in the campaign, political capital.
我在竞选中赚到了资本，政治资本。
And now I intend to spend it.
现在我打算花掉它。
It is my style.
这是我的风格。
Narrator: Boosted by sweeping Republican victories in the House and Senate, Bush planned to spend his political capital on an ambitious domestic agenda that he hoped would get his presidency back on course.
旁白：在共和党在众议院和参议院取得压倒性胜利的推动下，布什计划将其政治资本用于雄心勃勃的国内议程，他希望这些议程能够让他的总统任期重回正轨。
At the top of his list were two contentious issues: social security and immigration.
他的清单中最重要的是两个有争议的问题：社会保障和移民。
SOT (Press Conference), Bush: When you win there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view.
SOT（新闻发布会），布什：当你获胜时，会有一种感觉，人们已经表达并接受了你的观点。
Robert Draper: The Bush reelection wasn’t anything close to a landslide, but to this administration, after what they’d been through in November and December of 2000, it felt like a landslide.
罗伯特·德雷珀：布什连任并不接近压倒性胜利，但对于本届政府来说，在经历了 2000 年 11 月和 12 月的经历之后，感觉就像是压倒性胜利。
SOT (Press Conference) Bush: Gosh, we’re going to have a lot of fun then.
SOT（新闻发布会）布什：天哪，我们会玩得很开心的。
[Laughs] Thank you all.
[笑]谢谢大家。
Robert Draper: This administration was riding high.
罗伯特·德雷珀：本届政府正处于高位。
They felt like the ship will get righted in Iraq, and in the meantime, we got a lot of good work to do.
他们觉得这艘船将在伊拉克恢复正常，与此同时，我们还有很多好的工作要做。
SOT, Bush: Just met with my cabinet.
SOT，布什：刚刚与我的内阁会面。
I’m proud of every person here.
我为这里的每个人感到骄傲。
They’ve done a great job for the country--
他们为国家做出了伟大的贡献——
Narrator: Bush moved quickly to bolster loyalists and jettison critics within his administration.
旁白：布什迅速采取行动，支持其政府内的忠诚者并抛弃批评者。
Just ten days after the election, Colin Powell resigned under pressure.
大选后仅十天，科林·鲍威尔就迫于压力辞职。
Bush named Condoleezza Rice as his new Secretary of State.
布什任命康多莉扎·赖斯为新任国务卿。
Equally notable were the changes he chose not to make.
同样值得注意的是他选择不做出的改变。
He kept on Dick Cheney as Vice President and Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of the Iraq War as Secretary of Defense.
他继续任命迪克·切尼为副总统，让伊拉克战争的策划者唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德担任国防部长。
And on January, 20th, 2005, George W.
2005 年 1 月 20 日，乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush took a journey from the White House to the Capitol that his father had been denied.
布什从白宫前往国会大厦，这是他父亲拒绝的。
SOT, Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States.
SOT，播音员：女士们、先生们，美国总统。
George Walker Bush.
乔治·沃克·布什。
Ron Suskind: He’s in uncharted territory for any Bush, ever.
罗恩·苏斯金德：对于任何布什来说，他都处于未知的领域。
SOT, Chief Justice: I, George Walker Bush Bush: I, George Walker Bush
SOT，首席大法官：我，乔治·沃克·布什 布什：我，乔治·沃克·布什
Ron Suskind: He’s vindicated; he’s affirmed; he’s in a place his father never tread, into the second term of a US presidency.
罗恩·苏斯金德：他被平反了；他被肯定了；他正处在他父亲从未涉足过的地方——进入美国总统的第二个任期。
SOT, Bush: I will faithfully execute Chief Justice: The office of President of the United States Bush: The office of President of the United States Chief Justice: So help me God Bush: So help me God Chief Justice: Congratulations.
SOT，布什：我将忠实执行首席大法官：美国总统办公室布什：美国总统办公室首席大法官：上帝保佑我布什：上帝保佑我首席大法官：恭喜。
Ron Suskind: Kind of frees him up.
罗恩·苏斯金德：有点让他自由了。
And at this point, he starts to slip out of some of the brittle, bullying, petulance that inhabited a good part of his life as the son of the president who’ll never measure up.
在这一点上，他开始摆脱一些脆弱、欺凌、任性的情绪，这些情绪占据了他作为永远达不到标准的总统之子的大部分生活。
SOT Second Inaugural Address: Bush: Vice President Cheney, Mr. Chief Justice...The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
SOT 第二次就职演说： 布什：切尼副总统、首席大法官先生……我们世界和平的最大希望就是在全世界范围内扩大自由。
Michael Gerson: President Bush said will you write my second inaugural.
迈克尔·格尔森：布什总统说你可以写我的第二次就职演说吗？
He said I want it to be the freedom speech.
他说我希望这是自由言论。
I want it to be remembered as the freedom speech.
我希望它作为自由言论被人们铭记。
Stephen Hadley: The second inaugural was a reflection of the president's confidence in the power of individuals to make right decisions for themselves and their families.
斯蒂芬·哈德利：第二次就职典礼反映了总统对个人为自己及其家人做出正确决定的力量的信心。
That's core George W.
这就是乔治·W.
Bush.
布什。
[SOT] Second Inaugural Address: Bush: So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements in every nation with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.
[SOT] 第二次就职演说：布什：美国的政策是寻求和支持每个国家民主运动的发展，最终目标是结束我们世界的暴政。
George Packer: This was not the Bush who came into office in 2001, but 9/11 and Iraq brought out something in his character that he wanted to be a great figure in history and to be on the side of the angels.
乔治·帕克：这不是2001年上台的布什，但9/11和伊拉克事件在他的性格中展现了一些东西，即他想成为历史上的伟大人物并站在天使一边。
Wouldn’t have been enough just to privatize social security.
仅仅将社会保障私有化是不够的。
He needed more than that.
他需要的还不止这些。
He needed to free the Middle East, and that’s what he set out to do.
他需要解放中东，这就是他打算做的事情。
Narrator: Bush laid out an ambitious plan for advancing American values abroad, notably in Iraq.
旁白：布什制定了一项雄心勃勃的计划，旨在在海外，特别是在伊拉克推进美国价值观。
The case for tying the invasion of Iraq to 9/11 -- as argued most vigorously by his Vice President -- was consigned to history.
正如副总统极力主张的那样，将入侵伊拉克与 9/11 事件联系起来的理由已经成为历史。
Peter Baker: If you look at Bush and Cheney.
彼得·贝克：如果你看看布什和切尼。
Cheney has a realpolitik, dark view of the world.
切尼的世界观是现实政治的、黑暗的。
There’s evil out there, we must go after it.
邪恶无处不在，我们必须追击它。
Bush believes that there is evil out there, but he does also aspire to bigger, better things.
布什相信世界上存在邪恶，但他也渴望更大、更好的事物。
Now, I mean, some people said that was naïve.
现在，我的意思是，有些人说这太天真了。
Some people thought it was even messianic but I think it was born of this idea that the war on terror couldn’t just be about killing bad guys.
有些人甚至认为这是救世主，但我认为它源于这样的想法：反恐战争不仅仅是杀死坏人。
It had to be about something bigger and more uplifting.
它必须是一些更大、更令人振奋的事情。
We had to make the world a better place.
我们必须让世界变得更美好。
Narrator: The work would begin, Bush believed, with the first elections held in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
旁白：布什相信，随着伊拉克自萨达姆·侯赛因被推翻以来的首次选举开始，这项工作就会开始。
SOT (Jan.
SOT（一月
26, 2005 press conference) President Bush: In just four days from now, the people of Iraq will vote in free national elections.
2005年12月26日新闻发布会）布什总统：从现在起仅四天，伊拉克人民将在自由的全国选举中投票。
Terrorists in that country have declared war against democracy itself, and, thereby, declared war against the Iraqi people themselves.
该国的恐怖分子已经向民主本身宣战，从而也向伊拉克人民本身宣战。
Yet the elections will go forward.
但选举仍将继续进行。
Millions of Iraqi voters will show their bravery, their love of country, and their desire to live in freedom.
数百万伊拉克选民将表现出他们的勇敢、对国家的热爱以及对自由生活的渴望。
Dana Perino: The voting part was really important to him.
Dana Perino：投票部分对他来说非常重要。
He believed in the universal freedom agenda.
他相信普遍自由议程。
This was the first opportunity to be able to vote and it was a hopeful time, actually.
这是第一次有投票的机会，实际上这是一个充满希望的时刻。
Narrator: In all, eight million Iraqis cast a ballot.
旁白：总共有八百万伊拉克人参加了投票。
At many polling stations, the mood was jubilant, with crowds dancing and children playing soccer in streets guarded by thousands of Iraqi and American forces.
在许多投票站，气氛欢腾，人群跳舞，孩子们在数千名伊拉克和美国军队把守的街道上踢足球。
Martha Raddatz: Going from polling station to polling station.
玛莎·拉达茨：从一个投票站到另一个投票站。
It felt so good.
感觉真好。
You felt like it was a breakthrough.
你感觉这是一个突破。
Watching these long lines, and women lined up, and how much it meant to them and people were so proud.
看着这些长长的队伍，妇女们排队，这对她们来说意味着什么，人们感到非常自豪。
Narrator: That day at least, something wonderful appeared to be unfolding, and Bush's grand vision for a democratic Iraq seemed within grasp.
旁白：至少在那一天，一些奇妙的事情似乎正在展开，布什关于民主伊拉克的宏伟愿景似乎触手可及。
SOT (Addresses the Iraqi people) Bush: Today, the people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.
SOT（对伊拉克人民讲话） 布什：今天，伊拉克人民向世界发出了声音，世界正在听到来自中东中心的自由的声音。
George Packer: The Bush administration took it as the sign that all the nay-sayers had been wrong, that this was the future.
乔治·帕克：布什政府认为这表明所有反对者都错了，这就是未来。
We were now on the right road.
我们现在走在正确的道路上。
But in fact Iraq, on the ground, was disintegrating.
但事实上，伊拉克正在分崩离析。
Narrator: The election revealed the country’s deep divisions.
旁白：这次选举暴露了这个国家的深刻分歧。
The minority Sunni Arabs were excluded from power and their resentment further stoked the insurgency.
少数逊尼派阿拉伯人被排除在权力之外，他们的怨恨进一步煽动了叛乱。
Robin Wright: President Bush compared it to the birth of the United States.
罗宾·赖特：布什总统将其比作美国的诞生。
He said the voice of freedom had been unleashed in Iraq, ignoring the fact that there had been a hundred attacks on polling stations, that less than two percent of people in Anbar Province, the place where the insurgency really had its roots, turned out to vote.
他说，伊拉克已经释放了自由的声音，却无视投票站遭受了一百起袭击的事实，而在叛乱真正根源的安巴尔省，只有不到百分之二的人去投票。
It was totally misunderstanding what had happened in Iraq.
这完全是对伊拉克发生的事情的误解。
Narrator: Hungry for good news, Bush ignored the signs of brewing trouble in Iraq.
旁白：布什渴望好消息，忽视了伊拉克酝酿麻烦的迹象。
Instead he now turned his attention back to his domestic agenda.
相反，他现在将注意力转回国内议程。
Karl Rove: He won by actually, during the campaign, talking about a couple of issues - immigration reform and social security modernization.
卡尔·罗夫：实际上，他在竞选期间通过谈论几个问题而获胜——移民改革和社会保障现代化。
And so he thought, you know, look, I'm not going to coast.
所以他想，你知道，听着，我不会随波逐流。
Narrator: Bush had always dreamed of doing big things.
旁白：布什一直梦想着做大事。
Now he had his chance.
现在他有机会了。
He started with social security, relying on Karl Rove to help him craft and pitch his bold plan to privatize the program to the American people.
他从社会保障开始，依靠卡尔·罗夫帮助他制定并向美国人民推销他的大胆计划，将该计划私有化。
He embarked on a whistle stop campaign that hit 60 cities in 60 days.
他发起了一场在 60 天内覆盖 60 个城市的制止运动。
SOT, Bush: There’s a lot of issues we could talk about, but I’m here to talk about social security.
SOT，布什：我们可以讨论很多问题，但我在这里讨论社会保障。
Bush: Social security is a big issue and it’s an issue we must address now.
布什：社会保障是一个大问题，也是我们现在必须解决的问题。
Bush: Because now’s the time to get something done on the big issue of social security.
布什：因为现在是在社会保障这个大问题上采取行动的时候了。
Michael Gerson: We campaigned week after week all across the country on social security reform trying to use this political capital and no minds were changed.
迈克尔·格尔森：我们一周又一周在全国范围内进行社会保障改革运动，试图利用这一政治资本，但没有改变任何想法。
Narrator: Weakened by the ongoing conflict in Iraq, Bush found that his ambitions exceeded his political strength.
旁白：由于伊拉克持续冲突的影响，布什发现自己的野心超出了他的政治实力。
Dana Perino: What happened was the Republicans were behind him on it, like, so far behind him you couldn't even see them.
达纳·佩里诺（Dana Perino）：发生的事情是共和党人在这件事上支持他，就像，在他身后那么远，你甚至看不到他们。
They were not there to support, and it became pretty clear that this first effort out of the gate after the second inauguration was not going to be successful, legislatively.
他们没有提供支持，而且很明显，第二次就职后的第一次努力在立法上不会成功。
Andy Card: We got zero traction from the Republican leadership, House or Senate.
安迪·卡德：共和党领导层、众议院或参议院对我们的支持为零。
Same thing with immigration reform.
移民改革也是如此。
So two of his big initiatives that we really wanted to do, we couldn’t get momentum on the hill to introduce them.
因此，我们真正想做的两项重大举措，我们无法在山上获得动力来介绍它们。
Narrator: That summer, Bush retreated to his Crawford ranch for five weeks to rest -- and strategize about how to regain the political initiative.
旁白：那年夏天，布什回到克劳福德牧场休息了五个星期，并制定了如何重新获得政治主动权的战略。
But, again, his presidency was soon overtaken by a crisis.
但他的总统任期很快又陷入危机。
SOT, Mike Brown: Everyone, let’s go and get started.
SOT，迈克·布朗：大家，让我们开始吧。
It’s noon and we have a lot of business to cover today.
现在是中午，今天我们有很多事情要处理。
Narrator: On August 24th, Bush’s emergency managers, led by FEMA director, Michael Brown, began making preparations for a dangerous storm bearing down on the Gulf coast.
旁白：8 月 24 日，布什的应急管理人员在联邦应急管理局局长迈克尔·布朗的带领下，开始为袭击墨西哥湾沿岸的危险风暴做准备。
SOT, Michael Brown: We're gonna do whatever it takes to help these folks down there because this is to put it mildly the big one I think.
SOT，迈克尔·布朗：我们将尽一切努力帮助那里的这些人，因为我认为这是一个重大的事情。
SOT, Weather Forecaster: Hurricane Katrina is a monster of a storm, both in size and intensity.
SOT，天气预报员：卡特里娜飓风无论是规模还是强度都是风暴中的怪物。
It is simply massive.
它简直是巨大的。
Narrator: By August 28th, Hurricane Katrina had become one of the largest and most powerful storms ever recorded, with sustained winds of 175 miles an hour.
旁白：到 8 月 28 日，卡特里娜飓风已成为有记录以来规模最大、威力最强的风暴之一，持续风速达到每小时 175 英里。
Michael Brown briefed the president on plans for a coordinated federal and state response.
迈克尔·布朗向总统简要介绍了联邦和州协调应对措施的计划。
SOT, President Bush: I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm.
SOT，布什总统：我想向州一级的人们保证，我们已做好充分准备，不仅在风暴期间为你们提供帮助，而且我们将在风暴结束后转移我们所拥有的任何资源和资产。
Narrator: As fears of the impending storm grew, residents of New Orleans began fleeing the city.
旁白：随着对即将到来的风暴的担忧不断加剧，新奥尔良的居民开始逃离这座城市。
But tens of thousands of people were unable to leave and were forced to take shelter wherever they could.
但数万人无法离开，被迫尽可能避难。
At 6:10am on August 29, Katrina made landfall in Louisiana.
8月29日早上6点10分，卡特里娜飓风在路易斯安那州登陆。
Waves of water surged into low-lying areas.
水浪涌入低洼地区。
SOT 911 call: 911 Operator: Police operator-- Woman: Yes, 911, I need help.
SOT 911 呼叫：911 接线员：警察接线员-- 女士：是的，911，我需要帮助。
911 Operator: Where are you ma’am?
911 接线员：女士，您在哪里？
Woman 1: I’m in the Ninth Ward.
女1：我在九区。
Woman 2: I’m stuck in the attic, me, and my little sister and my mom and we got water in the whole house.
女人2：我被困在阁楼里，我、我的妹妹和我的妈妈，我们整个房子都有水。
Woman 3: I’m gonna die, the water started rising in the attic ma’am and I’m gonna drown in the attic.
女人3：我要死了，阁楼里的水开始上涨，女士，我会淹死在阁楼里。
Narrator: As the rescue efforts began that morning, emergency workers were relieved that New Orleans had avoided a direct hit when the storm altered course at the last moment.
旁白：当天早上救援工作开始后，紧急救援人员松了口气，因为风暴在最后一刻改变了航向，新奥尔良避免了直接袭击。
Bush decided to carry on with a planned speech on Medicare in Arizona.
布什决定继续按计划在亚利桑那州进行有关医疗保险的演讲。
SOT, President Bush: : I know my fellow citizens here in Arizona and across the country are saying our prayers for those affected by the Hurricane Katrina.
SOT，布什总统：我知道亚利桑那州和全国各地的同胞们正在为那些受卡特里娜飓风影响的人们祈祷。
Our Gulf Coast is getting hit and hit hard.
我们的墨西哥湾沿岸正在遭受重创。
Narrator: Though the storm had passed, New Orleans was only just beginning to feel the full impact of Hurricane Katrina.
旁白：虽然风暴已经过去，但新奥尔良才刚刚开始感受到卡特里娜飓风的全面影响。
Two hours after landfall, levees in the Lower Ninth Ward gave way.
登陆两小时后，下九区的堤坝崩塌。
Flood waters killed a hundred people and forced survivors to clamber to safety.
洪水导致一百人死亡，幸存者被迫爬到安全地带。
SOT, Home Video: : Hold the rope, let him pull to the boat!
SOT，家庭视频：：握住绳子，让他拉到船上！
Narrator: Bush again decided to carry on with his schedule, flying to San Diego for an event at a navy base.
旁白：布什再次决定继续他的日程，飞往圣地亚哥参加在海军基地举行的活动。
Dan Bartlett: We had a big debate about whether he should go and speak to the troops in San Diego.
丹·巴特利特：我们就他是否应该去圣地亚哥与部队交谈进行了一场激烈的辩论。
We felt like we’re still at war and, if there’s one thing that the president couldn’t be criticized doing is speaking with the troops.
我们感觉我们仍然处于战争状态，如果总统做的一件事不能受到批评，那就是与军队交谈。
Narrator: Later that day, crucial levees protecting the city center in New Orleans began to crumble and collapse.
旁白：当天晚些时候，保护新奥尔良市中心的重要堤坝开始崩塌。
Parts of the city soon lay under fifteen feet of water.
城市的部分地区很快就被淹没在十五英尺深的水下。
SOT, Reporter: Eighty percent of New Orleans flooded.
SOT，记者：新奥尔良百分之八十的地区被洪水淹没。
The levees are broken and they’re having a difficult time trying to fix the situation.
堤坝已经决堤，他们很难解决这个问题。
The damage is staggering...
伤害是惊人的...
Reporter: The real concern is anybody who decided to ride the storm out inside their house, they may have actually drowned.
记者：真正令人担忧的是，任何决定在自己的房子里度过风暴的人，他们可能真的被淹死了。
Narrator: New Orleans was now a major disaster zone with over 50,000 people still stranded in emergency shelters.
旁白：新奥尔良现在是重灾区，仍有超过5万民众被困在紧急避难所中。
The president decided to fly back to the White House.
总统决定飞回白宫。
On Air Force One, his aides debated whether to let journalists see him surveying the damage from his seat.
在空军一号上，他的助手们争论是否让记者看到他在座位上检查受损情况。
Dan Bartlett: There’s some staff that led the press up to the front of the cabin and they took that picture of him just looking out the window.
丹·巴特利特：有一些工作人员带领媒体来到机舱前面，他们拍下了他只是看着窗外的照片。
And it was one of the few times where his unbelievable political instincts let him down.
这是他令人难以置信的政治本能让他失望的少数几次之一。
SOT, Reporter: President Bush had Air Force One descend to 2,500 feet and fly over the disaster area for about 35 minutes.
SOT，记者：布什总统让空军一号下降到 2,500 英尺的高度，在灾区上空飞行约 35 分钟。
Andrew Card: He was crucified for flying over and not stopping.
安德鲁·卡德：他因飞越而没有停下来而被钉死在十字架上。
Well, I guarantee you if he had stopped he would have been crucified even worse.
好吧，我向你保证，如果他停下来，他会被钉在十字架上，情况会更糟。
President Bush once again showed a lack of instant, immediate leadership
布什总统再次表现出缺乏即时、直接的领导能力
Dan Bartlett: This gets back to how powerful images are in a presidency, in life, but those iconic images that…
丹·巴特利特：这又回到了图像在总统任期和生活中的影响力，但那些标志性的图像……
the ones that cut against us, the mission accomplished, the…obviously, the looking out of the aircraft.
那些对我们不利的人，完成的任务，……显然，从飞机上往外看。
Those are searing.
那些很灼热。
SOT, Crowd: We want help!
SOT、人群：我们需要帮助！
We want help!
我们需要帮助！
We want help!
我们需要帮助！
Narrator: Five days after Katrina hit, much needed federal assistance had yet to reach New Orleans.
旁白：卡特里娜飓风袭击五天后，急需的联邦援助尚未到达新奥尔良。
SOT, Woman: This morning I found one lady in a wheelchair dead in the ladies’ bathroom and another lady laying on the floor by the ladies’ bathroom dead.
SOT，女人：今天早上，我发现一名坐在轮椅上的女士死在女卫生间里，另一名女士躺在女卫生间旁边的地板上死了。
And then there’s this guy right here that’s dead, that’s been sitting out here for a while.
然后这里有一个人已经死了，他已经在这里坐了一段时间了。
Eugene Robinson: The human toll in New Orleans, the flooded streets, the squalor, and, and desperation of people at the Convention Center and at the Superdome.
尤金·罗宾逊：新奥尔良的人员伤亡、街道被淹、肮脏，以及会议中心和超级圆顶体育场人们的绝望。
It was every bit as bad as history records.
这和历史记录一样糟糕。
Narrator: And a story of presidential indifference was soon compounded by accounts of federal incompetence.
旁白：关于总统冷漠的故事很快就因联邦无能的报道而变得更加复杂。
SOT, Brian Williams, NBC News: Where is the aid?
SOT，Brian Williams，NBC 新闻：援助在哪里？
It's the question people keep asking us on camera.
这是人们在镜头前不断问我们的问题。
Michael Brown: Brian, it's an absolutely fair question, and I got to tell you from the bottom of my heart how sad I feel for those people.
迈克尔·布朗：布莱恩，这是一个绝对公平的问题，我必须从心底告诉你我为这些人感到多么悲伤。
The federal government just learned about those people today.
联邦政府今天才了解到这些人的情况。
SOT, Mayor Ray Nagin: I need reinforcements, I need troops, man, I need 500 buses, I've got 15 to 20,000 people over at the convention center, it's bursting at the seams.
SOT，雷·纳金市长：我需要增援，我需要军队，伙计，我需要 500 辆公共汽车，我在会议中心有 15 到 20,000 人，它已经爆满了。
Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here, they're not here.
别告诉我四万人要来这里，他们不在这里。
It's too doggone late.
已经太晚了。
Now get off your asses and let's do something and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country.
现在滚蛋吧，让我们做点什么，解决这个国家历史上最大的该死的危机。
Ron Suskind: Katrina ends up being an immediate domestic version of Iraq.
罗恩·苏斯金德：卡特里娜飓风最终成为伊拉克国内的直接版本。
Bad planning.
糟糕的计划。
Warnings that Bush doesn’t heed.
布什没有理睬警告。
People in various positions who don’t do their job the way any president would want them to, and all of it comes a-cropper with Katrina.
担任各种职务的人并没有按照任何总统希望的方式开展工作，而这一切都因卡特里娜飓风而毁掉。
Now, it’s not across the world in Baghdad, now, it’s right in New Orleans.
现在，它不是在世界另一端的巴格达，而是在新奥尔良。
Dan Bartlett: I remember a conversation in which somebody in the White House said look, it’s going to be clear to everybody that the mayor and the governor aren’t up to the task, that they’re failing, and my point was yes, that’s why they want the president to take over.
丹·巴特利特：我记得在一次谈话中，白宫有人说，大家都清楚，市长和州长不能胜任这项任务，他们失败了，我的观点是，是的，这就是为什么他们希望总统接任。
Narrator: Nearly two thousand people died in Hurricane Katrina.
旁白：卡特里娜飓风造成近两千人死亡。
Most of them were elderly, trapped in homes and hospitals, unable to flee or find shelter from the storm.
他们中的大多数都是老人，被困在家里和医院里，无法逃离或找到庇护所来躲避风暴。
Hundreds of thousands more were displaced, forced to live in temporary accommodation for months on end.
还有数十万人流离失所，被迫在临时住所连续居住数月。
On Sept 2nd, Bush finally visited the Gulf Coast to survey the damage in person.
9月2日，布什终于亲临墨西哥湾沿岸考察受损情况。
But he was still unable to overcome a perception of being out-of-touch.
但他仍然无法克服一种脱离现实的感觉。
SOT, (Bush with local and federal officials) Bush: The good news is, and it’s hard for some to see it now, that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, and that’s what I’ve come down to assure people.
SOT，（布什与地方和联邦官员）布什：好消息是，现在有些人很难看到，从这场混乱中将会出现一个梦幻般的墨西哥湾沿岸，这就是我向人们保证的。
Again, I want to thank you all for-- And Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job!
再次，我要感谢你们所有人——还有布朗尼，你们干得非常出色！
The FEMA director is working 24…
FEMA 局长正在 24 小时工作……
[Applause.]
[掌声]
Michael Gerson: It did illustrate a limit of his leadership style.
迈克尔·格尔森：这确实说明了他的领导风格的局限性。
His natural tendency is to build people up as they’re confronting crisis.
他的自然倾向是在人们面临危机时鼓励他们。
That’s what he normally does.
这就是他通常所做的。
But this was a case where I think a little more impatience would have been justified.
但在这种情况下，我认为多一点耐心是合理的。
Dan Bartlett: It was a damaging blow, politically, to the President.
丹·巴特利特：从政治上来说，这对总统来说是一个破坏性的打击。
We would like to tell ourselves otherwise, but it put our own allies and party in a tough spot.
我们想告诉自己不然，但这让我们自己的盟友和政党陷入困境。
Even at the height of the Iraq insurgency, that period, and the days and weeks after Katrina were as challenging as anything in the entire presidency.
即使在伊拉克叛乱最激烈的时期，那段时期以及卡特里娜飓风过后的几天和几周也与整个总统任期内的任何事情一样充满挑战。
Elisabeth Bumiller: George Bush actually said that, at one point, that Katrina was worse on his presidency than the Iraq war had been, because what it exposed was complete incompetence.
伊丽莎白·布米勒：乔治·布什实际上曾经说过，卡特里娜飓风在他的总统任期内比伊拉克战争更糟糕，因为它暴露了他完全无能。
SOT (Members of Congress reading out the names of Iraqi combat deaths) Rep.
SOT（国会议员宣读伊拉克战斗死亡人数）众议员。
Rahm Emanuel: First Sergeant Alan Nye Gifford.
拉姆·伊曼纽尔：中士艾伦·奈·吉福德。
Specialist David H.
专家大卫·H.
Ford IV, Staff Sergeant Virgilio E.
福特四世，上士 Virgilio E.
Neelum, Sergeant First Class Lawrence E.
尼鲁姆，一级军士劳伦斯·E.
Morrison.
莫里森。
Narrator: On October 22, 2005, the Iraq War reached a grim milestone when Staff Sergeant George T.
旁白：2005 年 10 月 22 日，伊拉克战争达到了一个严峻的里程碑，上士乔治·T·布什 (George T.
Alexander Jr. of Clanton, Alabama died of his wounds after an IED struck his vehicle.
阿拉巴马州克兰顿市的小亚历山大 (Alexander Jr.) 在简易爆炸装置击中他的车辆后受伤身亡。
He was the 2,000th American soldier to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
他是在伊拉克自由行动中阵亡的第 2000 名美国士兵。
Narrator: Americans had grown increasingly weary of the continued occupation.
旁白：美国人对持续的占领越来越厌倦。
SOT, Man (Fernando): Bush lied and thousands and thousands of innocent children died in Iraq.
SOT，曼（费尔南多）：布什撒了谎，成千上万的无辜儿童在伊拉克丧生。
SOT, Cindy Sheehan: George Bush said that the families can rest assured that their children died for a noble cause and I wanted to ask him what is that noble cause?
SOT，辛迪·希恩：乔治·布什说，家庭可以放心，他们的孩子是为了崇高的事业而死，我想问他，这个崇高的事业是什么？
Narrator: To shore up public support, Bush announced a withdrawal of US troops from frontline operations.
旁白：为了争取民众支持，布什宣布美军撤出前线行动。
SOT President Bush: We will increasingly move out of Iraqi cities, reduce the number of bases from which we operate, and conduct fewer patrols and convoys.
布什总统：我们将越来越多地撤出伊拉克城市，减少我们行动的基地数量，并减少巡逻和护送。
As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop levels in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists.
随着伊拉克军队经验的积累和政治进程的进展，我们将能够在不丧失击败恐怖分子的能力的情况下减少在伊拉克的驻军人数。
Narrator: Just months later, an already violent conflict descended into even greater chaos.
旁白：几个月后，本来就很暴力的冲突变得更加混乱。
An explosion destroyed the Golden Mosque of Samarra, one of the holiest Shiite shrines in all of the Middle East.
一场爆炸摧毁了萨马拉金色清真寺，这是整个中东最神圣的什叶派圣地之一。
SOT, Reporter: The explosion that left the Samarra Mosque famous gold dome in ruins came at dawn.
SOT，记者：爆炸发生在黎明时分，导致萨迈拉清真寺著名的金顶成为废墟。
Within hours, Shia protesters converged on the rubble of what they consider holy ground.
几个小时内，什叶派抗议者聚集在他们认为是圣地的废墟上。
George Packer: Throughout 2003, ’4, and ’5, Iraq got worse and worse and worse.
乔治·帕克：整个 2003 年、4 年和 5 年，伊拉克的情况变得越来越糟。
But the true turning point was February 2006, when Al Qaeda insurgents bombed the Golden Mosque and that opened the gates of hell, and it was, that was when civil war was full-blown.
但真正的转折点是2006年2月，基地组织叛乱分子轰炸了金色清真寺，打开了地狱之门，那时内战全面爆发。
David Petraeus: After that moment, the violence statistics just go like this.
大卫·彼得雷乌斯：从那一刻起，暴力统计数据就变成这样了。
And initially you think, well, it might burn itself out.
最初你会想，好吧，它可能会自行耗尽。
The problem was at the very time that the violence was increasing we were moving out of neighborhoods back onto big bases.
问题是在暴力事件不断增加的时候，我们正从社区搬回大型基地。
So it got even worse.
所以情况变得更糟。
Narrator: By the fall, mutilated bodies littered the streets.
旁白：到了秋天，街道上到处都是残缺不全的尸体。
Car bombings occurred daily.
汽车爆炸事件每天都在发生。
Iraqi forces were overwhelmed as Shia death squads roamed Baghdad.
当什叶派敢死队在巴格达游荡时，伊拉克军队不堪重负。
Sunni militants fought back, joined by thousands of new Al Qaeda recruits, radicalized by the US invasion.
逊尼派武装分子进行了反击，数千名因美国入侵而变得激进的基地组织新成员也加入其中。
Bush’s vision of a democratic country anchoring peace in the Middle East was more distant than ever.
布什关于民主国家巩固中东和平的愿景比以往任何时候都更加遥远。
SOT, Reporter: Leading Republicans now acknowledge that the situation in Iraq is bad.
SOT，记者：主要共和党人现在承认伊拉克局势很糟糕。
Sen.
参议员。
John Warner: It seems to me that the situation is simply drifting.
约翰·华纳：在我看来，情况只是在漂移。
Sen.
参议员。
Chuck Hagel: We clearly need a new strategy.
查克·哈格尔：我们显然需要一个新的战略。
Obviously by any measurement we’re in a lot of trouble in Iraq.
显然，无论从什么角度来看，我们在伊拉克都遇到了很多麻烦。
James Mann: The war in Iraq, by 2006, is so unpopular that the Republicans began to recognize that they're in trouble even for the congressional elections, and at one point, Mitch McConnell, who is the Republican Minority Leader in the Senate, makes a secret trip to the White House and tells Bush you've got to start withdrawing troops from Iraq because otherwise we're going to get clobbered.
詹姆斯·曼：到了 2006 年，伊拉克战争已经非常不受欢迎，以至于共和党人开始认识到，即使是在国会选举中，他们也陷入了麻烦。有一次，参议院共和党少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔秘密前往白宫，告诉布什你必须开始从伊拉克撤军，否则我们就会遭到重创。
Karl Rove: There are people streaming in the Oval Office saying get out.
卡尔·罗夫：椭圆形办公室里有人涌来，要求滚出去。
But Bush knew that that would be Vietnam all over again.
但布什知道，越南将再次重演。
That would be withdrawal and defeat, and the country couldn't stand it.
那将是撤退和失败，国家将无法忍受。
Narrator: Public opinion polls showed that nearly two-thirds of Americans disapproved of Bush’s management of the war.
旁白：民意调查显示，近三分之二的美国人不赞成布什对战争的管理。
Republicans began urging the president to fire his defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, in the hope of limiting their losses in the midterm elections.
共和党人开始敦促总统解雇国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德，希望限制他们在中期选举中的损失。
SOT, President Bush: I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation.
SOT，布什总统：我听到了声音，我读了头版，我知道这些猜测。
But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.
但我是决定者，我决定什么是最好的。
And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense.
最好的办法是唐·拉姆斯菲尔德继续担任国防部长。
Narrator: Behind the scenes, Bush finally accepted that he had to change.
旁白：在幕后，布什终于接受了他必须改变的事实。
Instead of leading by gut and delegating policy details to others, he now ordered a root and branch analysis of the Iraq war.
现在，他不再凭直觉领导并将政策细节委托给他人，而是下令对伊拉克战争进行彻底分析。
For months, Bush immersed himself in the details of military and political strategy.
几个月来，布什沉浸在军事和政治战略的细节中。
Peter Baker: In running Iraq war he had basically outsourced the decisions to Paul Bremer, to the generals, to Don Rumsfeld for three years.
彼得·贝克：在指挥伊拉克战争的过程中，他基本上将决策外包给了保罗·布雷默、将军们和唐·拉姆斯菲尔德，为期三年。
It’s only in late 2006, three years into the war with things going very, very badly that he finally kind of asserts his own decision-making on the war.
直到 2006 年底，战争已经打了三年，事情进展得非常非常糟糕，他才终于在战争问题上坚持了自己的决策。
Ron Suskind: He digs deep.
罗恩·苏斯金德：他深入挖掘。
He’s calling for reports.
他正在要求报告。
People are like, what?
人们就像，什么？
Give me this, give me that.
给我这个，给我那个。
What do we know about this?
我们对此了解多少？
I want this tomorrow.
我明天想要这个。
And I need to know everything, and don’t you be spinning me.
我需要知道一切，你不要欺骗我。
That’s what presidents are always are thinking.
这就是总统们一直在想的。
Bush is thinking that way now.
布什现在就是这么想的。
We need to pull this out of the fire, and that’s my job.
我们需要把它从火中救出来，这就是我的工作。
I am the president, and in he goes.
我是总统，他就上任。
Acting like a president.
表现得像个总统。
Narrator: Bush learned of a counter-insurgency operation in a small town in northern Iraq.
旁白：布什得知伊拉克北部一个小镇正在开展反叛乱行动。
The effort had succeeded in quelling violence by securing the safety of Iraqi civilians through selective military force.
这一努力通过有选择的军事力量确保伊拉克平民的安全，成功地平息了暴力。
The idea was the brainchild of general David Petraeus.
这个想法是大卫·彼得雷乌斯将军的创意。
Bush seized on the example, deciding to make it the centerpiece of his strategy for the whole country.
布什抓住了这个例子，决定将其作为他整个国家战略的核心。
Rather than a troop withdrawal, the new plan would feature a surge of more than 20,000 additional U.S. soldiers.
新计划不是撤军，而是增派 2 万多名美国士兵。
Petraeus: It was very clear even from afar that job one had to be to secure the Iraqi people and that the Iraqi security forces could no longer do it without us going back into the neighborhoods.
彼得雷乌斯：即使从远处看，也很清楚，我们的工作必须是保护伊拉克人民的安全，而如果我们不返回社区，伊拉克安全部队就无法再做到这一点。
And that was the biggest of the big ideas about the surge.
这是关于激增的最重要的想法。
Robin Wright: The Joint Chiefs of Staff was unanimously opposed to the surge.
罗宾·赖特：参谋长联席会议一致反对增兵。
They had almost no faith that the US was going to be able to address the political issues that had unleashed opposition to the United States, that had fueled an insurgency.
他们几乎不相信美国能够解决引发反对美国、助长叛乱的政治问题。
Josh Bolten: I think it was the Chief of Staff of the Army who said, Mr. President, just to be direct, I'm worried that you'll break the army, and the president took it in, and he leaned forward, and he said, let me tell you what I think will break the army.
乔什·博尔滕：我想是陆军参谋长说，总统先生，直接说吧，我担心你会瓦解军队，总统接受了这一点，他向前倾身，他说，让我告诉你我认为会瓦解军队的是什么。
What I think will break the army, and what I think will break the spirit and the determination of this country and the respect this country has around the world is if we retreat before the job is done.
我认为，如果我们在任务完成之前撤退，就会摧毁军队，摧毁这个国家的精神和决心，以及这个国家在全世界所享有的尊重。
Narrator: With his new plan taking shape, Bush decided to change the leadership at the Pentagon, something he had stubbornly resisted.
旁白：随着新计划的形成，布什决定更换五角大楼的领导层，但他一直对此坚决抵制。
After Republicans suffered huge losses in the 2006 midterms, he finally asked his Defense Secretary to resign.
共和党在2006年中期选举中遭受巨大损失后，他最终要求国防部长辞职。
SOT, President Bush: After a series of thoughtful conversations, Secretary Rumsfeld and I agreed that the timing is right for new leadership at the Pentagon.
SOT，布什总统：经过一系列深思熟虑的谈话，拉姆斯菲尔德国务卿和我一致认为五角大楼新领导层的时机是正确的。
Narrator: In Rumsfeld’s place, Bush appointed the security expert Robert Gates.
旁白：布什任命安全专家罗伯特·盖茨接替拉姆斯菲尔德。
Gen.
将军
David Petraeus: There were two George W Bushs when it came to the Iraq war.
大卫·彼得雷乌斯：在伊拉克战争中，有两个乔治·W·布什。
There was a George W.
有一个乔治·W.
Bush of the first three or four years of the war, who essentially subcontracted control of the war to his secretary of defense.
布什在战争的头三四年里，基本上将战争的控制权转包给了他的国防部长。
And then there was a George W.
然后还有乔治·W.
Bush after the defeat in November, 2006 at the midterm elections, who takes charge and now he is going to be the decider.
2006年11月中期选举失败后，布什接任总统，现在他将成为决策者。
Narrator: The lingering question -- what did all these changes mean for Bush’s relations with Vice President Cheney, whom he had not consulted on the change in leadership at the Pentagon?
旁白：一个挥之不去的问题——所有这些变化对布什与副总统切尼的关系意味着什么，他没有就五角大楼领导层的变动征求切尼的意见？
James Mann: So, here is a new Defense Secretary coming in, replacing the person Cheney was closest to of any public official in American life, Rumsfeld.
詹姆斯·曼：新任国防部长上任，取代了美国生活中与切尼最亲近的公职人员拉姆斯菲尔德。
And Bush is telling him, don't worry, Cheney is not as important as people make out, I'm the main person in this administration.
布什告诉他，别担心，切尼并不像人们想象的那么重要，我是这届政府的主要人物。
It is Bush seizing control, not just of military strategy, but really of his whole administration.
布什不仅控制了军事战略，而且控制了他的整个政府。
He’s pushed out Rumsfeld and he’s moving Cheney to the side.
他把拉姆斯菲尔德赶了出去，把切尼推到了一边。
SOT, Announcer: The President of the United States and Mrs. Laura Bush--
SOT，播音员：美国总统和劳拉·布什夫人——
Narrator: Bush’s new strategy for the Iraq War was finalized over the holiday season as 2006 drew to a close.
旁白：布什的伊拉克战争新战略是在2006年即将结束的假期期间敲定的。
Dan Bartlett: The surge of troops in Iraq was one of the most gut-wrenching policy decisions I saw the president make.
丹·巴特利特：向伊拉克增兵是我见过的总统做出的最令人痛心的政策决定之一。
Everybody and everything suggested that pulling out was going to be the most important thing, and we did just the opposite.
每个人和所有事情都表明退出将是最重要的事情，而我们却做了相反的事情。
And this is the surreal aspects of a presidency.
这就是总统任期的超现实之处。
He’s making these massive life and death decisions and every night for three hours he’s hosting holiday parties, which he has to look happy and take pictures with people from all around the country, and he is literally grinding on his teeth in these pictures as he’s weighing the different decision points around Iraq.
他正在做出这些重大的生死攸关的决定，每天晚上他都会举办三个小时的节日派对，他必须看起来很高兴，并与来自全国各地的人们合影，在这些照片中，当他权衡伊拉克各地的不同决策点时，他实际上是在咬牙切齿。
Narrator: To sell the surge to the American public, Bush had been forced to take a rare step: admit his mistakes.
旁白：为了向美国公众宣传这次激增，布什被迫采取了一个罕见的步骤：承认自己的错误。
R.G.
R.G.
Ratcliffe: George W.
拉特克利夫：乔治·W.
Bush did not like to change his mind.
布什不想改变主意。
He didn't like to be told he was wrong, and…
他不喜欢别人告诉他他错了，而且……
and if there was a personality trait that was his biggest shortcoming, that was it.
如果有一个性格特征是他最大的缺点的话，那就是了。
SOT, President Bush: The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people -- and it is unacceptable to me.
SOT，布什总统：伊拉克的局势对美国人民来说是不可接受的——对我来说也是不可接受的。
Our troops in Iraq have fought bravely.
我们在伊拉克的军队英勇作战。
They have done everything we have asked them to do.
他们已经完成了我们要求他们做的一切。
Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.
如果出现错误，责任由我承担。
Narrator: To lead the surge, Bush turned to the architect of the model counterinsurgency strategy: General David Petraeus.
旁白：为了领导这场增兵，布什求助于反叛乱战略模型的设计者：大卫·彼得雷乌斯将军。
Gen.
将军
David Petraeus: He said, get over there and fix this damn thing.
大卫·彼得雷乌斯：他说，去那里解决这个该死的事情。
You know, this is catastrophic.
你知道，这是灾难性的。
Gen.
将军
David Petraeus: Then he started each week in Washington, 7:30 in the morning, Monday morning, eastern standard time in the situation room for an hour with his entire national security team.
大卫·彼得雷乌斯：然后他每周一开始在华盛顿，东部标准时间周一早上 7:30 与他的整个国家安全团队一起在战情室待一个小时。
It was completely unprecedented.
这完全是前所未有的。
SOT, President Bush: Around half the troops he’s requested have arrived on the scene.
SOT，布什总统：他要求的大约一半部队已经抵达现场。
These troops are all aimed at helping the Iraqi government find the breathing space necessary to do what the people want them to do.
这些部队的目的都是为了帮助伊拉克政府找到必要的喘息空间，以完成人民希望他们做的事情。
Lawrence Wilkerson: That's a hell of a transformation to going from being the guy who didn't want to do the details, to being the guy who is infinitely doing the details.
劳伦斯·威尔克森：从一个不想做细节的人，到成为一个无限地做细节的人，这是一个巨大的转变。
I, how it happened, a recognition I guess that uh, his whole reputation could go down the tubes based on one thing, Iraq, and it wasn't looking good.
我，这是怎么发生的，我想，呃，他的整个声誉可能会因为一件事而名声扫地，伊拉克，而且看起来不太好。
Narrator: Gradually, the surge of additional troops began to pay dividends.
旁白：渐渐地，增兵开始带来红利。
In September 2007, Bush claimed success.
2007年9月，布什宣布取得成功。
SOT (Sept 13, 2007), President Bush: Conditions in Iraq are improving.
SOT（2007 年 9 月 13 日），布什总统：伊拉克的情况正在改善。
We are seizing the initiative from the enemy, and the troop surge is working.
我们正在从敌人手中夺取主动权，增兵正在发挥作用。
Martha Raddatz: You could really feel it on the ground, that, that things were changing, that there was a, that there was a new sheriff in town, that they were going to approach this in a different way.
玛莎·拉达茨：你真的可以在现场感受到，事情正在发生变化，镇上有一位新的警长，他们将以不同的方式处理这个问题。
Bob Gates: You could see people in the streets, book stalls open again, families in amusement parks, and things like that, and that started to happen pretty quickly.
鲍勃·盖茨：你可以看到街上的人们，书摊再次开放，游乐园里的家庭，以及类似的事情，而且这种情况很快就开始发生。
George Packer: From the point of view of civilians, who were just caught in between these two brutal forces, the Shia death squads, the Sunni insurgents, it was welcome.
乔治·帕克：从平民的角度来看，他们被夹在什叶派敢死队和逊尼派叛乱这两股残暴势力之间，这是受欢迎的。
Anything was welcome.
任何事情都受到欢迎。
There was a tremendous amount of anger at the Americans, but it was very hard for Iraqis to say just go home, because they knew that, as feckless and incompetent as we had been, we still were the only force that stood between these warring factions.
人们对美国人怀有极大的愤怒，但伊拉克人很难说回家，因为他们知道，尽管我们曾经如此不负责任和无能，但我们仍然是这些交战派别之间的唯一力量。
It looked like the best gamble of the war and the first good news of the war really and it lasted for a while; but, it was not a solution.
这看起来像是战争中最好的赌博，也是战争中第一个好消息，而且它持续了一段时间。但是，这不是一个解决方案。
It was a stopping of the bleeding.
这是止血的方法。
Narrator: Bush never got the democracy in Iraq that he envisioned.
旁白：布什从未在伊拉克实现他所设想的民主。
But the situation on the ground did stabilize.
但当地局势确实稳定下来。
He now hoped for a quiet end to his presidency.
他现在希望自己的总统任期能够平静地结束。
But an administration that had been defined by unexpected crisis, would not end in a desired calm.
但一个以意外危机为特征的政府不会以期望的平静结束。
The trouble began with a barely perceptible disturbance in the US housing market.
问题始于美国房地产市场几乎难以察觉的扰动。
SOT (2004 Republican National Convention), President Bush: Home ownership in America is at an all- time high.
SOT（2004 年共和党全国代表大会），布什总统：美国的住房拥有率处于历史最高水平。
(APPLAUSE)
（掌声）
Narrator: Bush had long extolled the virtues of owning a home.
旁白：布什长期以来一直赞扬拥有房屋的好处。
SOT (2004 Republican National Convention), President Bush: Tonight we set a new goal: seven million more affordable homes in the next ten years, so more American families will be able to open the door and say, "Welcome to my home."
SOT（2004年共和党全国代表大会），布什总统：今晚我们设定了一个新目标：在未来十年内增加700万套经济适用房，这样更多的美国家庭将能够打开家门说：“欢迎来到我的家。”
Narrator: By the middle of his second term, the housing market was on fire with the promise of cheap loans and prices that could only go up.
旁白：在他的第二个任期中期，房地产市场因廉价贷款的承诺和只会上涨的价格而火热。
SOT, News Anchor: Since 2000, the price of a single-family home has jumped 77% in New York City, 92% in Miami, and 105% in San Diego.
SOT，新闻主播：自2000年以来，纽约市单户住宅的价格上涨了77%，迈阿密上涨了92%，圣地亚哥上涨了105%。
Bethany McLean: There was TV show after TV show talking about how you could get rich by flipping your house.
Bethany McLean：有一个又一个的电视节目谈论如何通过翻转房子致富。
There was this whole plethora of new products that people had never really thought about before.
人们以前从未真正考虑过大量的新产品。
You didn't have to have any income or any assets and you could still get a mortgage.
您不必有任何收入或任何资产，您仍然可以获得抵押贷款。
SOT, TV Ad: Thanks to their flexible lending rules, Paul got a quick approval.
SOT、电视广告：由于他们灵活的借贷规则，Paul 很快就得到了批准。
Narrator: At the heart of it all was Wall Street where financial alchemy turned high risk mortgages into seemingly safe assets that banks sold for huge profits.
旁白：这一切的核心是华尔街，金融炼金术将高风险抵押贷款变成了看似安全的资产，银行出售这些资产以获取巨额利润。
Then, in 2007, interest rates went up and the mortgage market hit the skids.
然后，2007 年，利率上升，抵押贷款市场陷入困境。
SOT, News Anchor: With interest rates climbing back, many homeowners are having a hard time paying their mortgages.
SOT，新闻主播：随着利率回升，许多房主很难支付抵押贷款。
News Reporter: Home prices are down for the first time in more than a decade.
新闻记者：房价十多年来首次下降。
News Reporter: A growing number of Americans are finding themselves one crisis away from financial ruin.
新闻记者：越来越多的美国人发现，只要一场危机，他们就将面临财务破产。
Narrator: Although borrowers were hurting, Wall Street banks seemed secure, if only because of their enormous size.
旁白：尽管借款人受到伤害，但华尔街银行似乎很安全，哪怕只是因为它们规模庞大。
SOT, Meredith Viera: The crash of the titans.
SOT，梅雷迪思·维埃拉：泰坦的崩溃。
Wall Street in panic mode this morning.
今天早上华尔街陷入恐慌。
Narrator: ...the investment bank Lehman Brothers suddenly collapsed, triggering full-scale financial crisis.
旁白：……投资银行雷曼兄弟突然倒闭，引发全面金融危机。
SOT, Brian Williams: Lehman is by far the largest bankruptcy ever in this country.
SOT，布莱恩·威廉姆斯：雷曼兄弟是这个国家迄今为止最大的破产案。
And today Wall Street had one of its worst days on record.
今天，华尔街经历了有记录以来最糟糕的日子之一。
Man on Trading Floor: I’ve never seen markets like this so things are really monumental down here.
交易大厅里的人：我从未见过这样的市场，所以这里的事情确实具有里程碑意义。
Narrator: The failure of Lehman Brothers brought home to the Bush administration the grim realization that a dozen other financial institutions were at risk of collapse due to the high risk mortgages at the heart of the housing bubble.
旁白：雷曼兄弟的倒闭让布什政府深刻地认识到，由于房地产泡沫核心的高风险抵押贷款，其他十几家金融机构也面临着倒闭的风险。
Bethany Mclean: It was this sudden moment where you realize these subprime mortgage backed securities, which you thought of as esoteric and therefore somehow contained, had actually somehow spread like water through the entire financial system into every crevice where water could possibly run.
贝瑟尼·麦克莱恩：正是在这个突然的时刻，你意识到这些次级抵押贷款支持证券，你认为它们是深奥的，因此以某种方式包含在内，实际上已经像水一样通过整个金融体系渗透到每个可能流水的缝隙中。
There they were and just waiting to, to, to turn into a tsunami.
他们就在那里，等待着变成海啸。
SOT, Reporter: Citigroup is simply too big to fail.
SOT，记者：花旗集团太大而不能倒。
Brian Williams: Today the feds had to print more money.
布莱恩·威廉姆斯：今天联邦政府不得不印更多的钱。
Matt Lauer: Government apparently was concerned that AIG is too big to fail.
马特·劳尔：政府显然担心 AIG 太大而不能倒。
Reporter: The DOW losing more than 5.5 per cent today its second straight day of huge losses.
记者：道琼斯指数今天跌幅超过5.5%，这是连续第二个交易日大幅下跌。
Reporter: There is just no light at the end of this tunnel right now.
记者：现在隧道尽头还没有任何光亮。
Josh Bolten: September and October of 2008 were really, I thought, the scariest of the entire Bush administration.
乔什·博尔滕：我认为 2008 年 9 月和 10 月确实是整个布什政府中最可怕的时期。
9/11 was a horrible and…
9/11 是一个可怕的事件……
and of course, by far, the most devastating moment during the entire eight years of that presidency, but from the standpoint of an ongoing threat that everybody in government knew that we had to do something about the financial crisis it was really scary.
当然，到目前为止，这是总统任期整个八年中最具毁灭性的时刻，但从持续威胁的角度来看，政府中的每个人都知道我们必须对金融危机采取行动，这确实很可怕。
SOT (09/19/2008) BUSH: In this difficult time, I know many Americans are wondering about the security of their finances.
SOT (09/19/2008) 布什：在这个困难时期，我知道许多美国人都想知道他们的财务安全。
Every American should know that the federal government continues to enforce laws and regulations protecting your money.
每个美国人都应该知道，联邦政府将继续执行保护您的资金的法律和法规。
Narrator: Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, realized that his piecemeal efforts to stabilize the financial system were not enough.
旁白：布什的财政部长汉克·保尔森意识到，他为稳定金融体系所做的零碎努力是不够的。
Confidence in Wall Street banks had shattered and, as lending dried up, businesses across the country faced the very real prospect of bankruptcy.
人们对华尔街银行的信心已经崩溃，随着贷款枯竭，全国各地的企业都面临着破产的现实前景。
Hank Paulson: These big institutions on Wall Street where money moved with a click of a mouse at the speed of light around the world.
汉克·保尔森：华尔街的这些大型机构，只需点击鼠标，资金就能以光速在世界各地流动。
If you had another big bank or two having failed, it would have been hard to figure out how to even put the thing back together again.
如果另外一两家大银行倒闭，就很难弄清楚如何将事情重新组合起来。
I had visions of food lines, massive unemployment, disasters that were worse than, uh, the Great Depression.
我看到了食物排队、大规模失业和比大萧条更严重的灾难的景象。
Narrator: Paulson requested an urgent meeting with Bush to deal with the burgeoning crisis.
旁白：保尔森请求与布什举行紧急会议，以应对日益严重的危机。
He needed Congress to approve a radical plan to take the toxic assets off banks’ balance sheets.
他需要国会批准一项激进计划，将有毒资产从银行资产负债表中剔除。
He called it the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP.
他称之为“问题资产救助计划”或“TARP”。
Hank Paulson: We knew we needed to get something big.
汉克·保尔森：我们知道我们需要做一些大事。
So TARP had to be big enough to create market confidence and we asked for 700 billion.
因此问题资产救助计划必须足够大才能创造市场信心，我们要求提供 7000 亿美元。
And the reason we did was we didn't think we could get something with a T in front of it.
我们这样做的原因是我们认为我们无法得到前面带有 T 的东西。
A trillion sounded too much and 700 billion seemed like about the most we could get.
一万亿听起来太多了，而七千亿似乎是我们能得到的最高金额。
David Frum: There are a lot of voices, especially on the Republican side, who said the right thing to do is just, you know, let it go, let it go.
大卫·弗鲁姆：有很多声音，特别是共和党方面，他们说正确的做法就是，你知道，放手吧，放手吧。
People made bad bets, they have to pay the bills.
人们下了赌注，他们必须付出代价。
Let the banks fail.
让银行倒闭吧。
If it’s all the banks, let all the banks fail.
如果是所有银行，那就让所有银行都倒闭吧。
Josh Bolten: Any kind of bailout was deeply antithetical to everything that Republicans generally and President Bush, in particular, believed in.
乔什·博尔滕：任何形式的救助都与共和党人，特别是布什总统所相信的一切背道而驰。
He believed in the market.
他相信市场。
And he did not come to the presidency to bail out people who made bad bets on mortgage-backed securities.
他就任总统也不是为了救助那些在抵押贷款支持证券上做出错误押注的人。
Narrator: On September 18, 2008, Paulson met with Bush.
旁白：2008年9月18日，保尔森会见布什。
He brought with him the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, and together they made their case for a massive government bail-out of Wall Street.
他带来了美联储主席本·伯南克，他们一起提出了政府大规模救助华尔街的理由。
Hank Paulson: Much of, it's a blur, but I remember the president, the vice president, Josh, and a whole lot of other people in the Roosevelt Room.
汉克·保尔森：大部分内容都很模糊，但我记得总统、副总统乔什，以及罗斯福厅里的很多其他人。
He asked if this was the worst he'd seen the markets and Ben said you'd have to go back to the 1930s to see a situation like that.
他问这是否是他见过的最糟糕的市场，Ben 说你必须回到 20 世纪 30 年代才能看到这样的情况。
He then said, is there anything more that the Fed can do?
然后他说，美联储还能做些什么吗？
And I think that was the critical point in the meeting.
我认为这是会议的关键点。
And Ben looked him in the eye and said, there's nothing more we can do.
本看着他的眼睛说，我们无能为力。
Peter Baker: And it’s a really clarifying moment for him and after Paulson leaves and after Bernanke leaves, he goes back to the Oval Office and a couple of aides come in after him and he’s just pausing to let this sink in.
彼得·贝克：对他来说，这确实是一个澄清的时刻，在保尔森离开和伯南克离开后，他回到椭圆形办公室，几名助手在他身后进来，他只是停下来让这一点深入人心。
The words another Great Depression are hanging over him at this point.
此时此刻，“另一场大萧条”的阴影笼罩着他。
He’s in the final year of his presidency.
他正处于总统任期的最后一年。
This is what’s going to happen?
这会发生什么？
He says if there’s going to be another Great Depression you can be damn sure I’m going to be Roosevelt and not Hoover.
他说，如果再次出现大萧条，你可以肯定我会成为罗斯福，而不是胡佛。
He is not going to sit there and just hold back.
他不会坐在那里退缩。
David Frum: He had learned the first impulse is not the right one, and he learned something with the limits of ideology.
大卫·弗鲁姆：他已经认识到第一个冲动是不正确的，他学到了一些受意识形态限制的东西。
President Bush responded to the financial crisis in a very non-ideological way.
布什总统以一种非常非意识形态的方式应对金融危机。
David Frum: He remained a conservative Republican leading an administration of conservative Republicans, but they had also learned from history.
大卫·弗鲁姆：他仍然是一名保守派共和党人，领导着一个由保守派共和党人组成的政府，但他们也从历史中吸取了教训。
One of the things that went wrong in Iraq was the more you knew about Iraq, the less likely you were to be listened to in the decision about the Iraq War.
伊拉克出现的问题之一是，你对伊拉克了解得越多，在伊拉克战争的决策中你的意见就越不可能被听取。
In 2008, the more you knew about the Great Depression, the more likely you were to be included in the question, how do we not have another Great Depression?
2008年，你对大萧条了解得越多，你就越有可能被问到这样的问题：我们怎样才能避免再次发生大萧条？
Narrator: A few days later, Bush announced the plan to buy up toxic mortgage assets.
旁白：几天后，布什宣布了收购有毒抵押资产的计划。
SOT (9/24/08) President Bush: With the situation becoming more precarious by the day, I faced a choice--to step in with dramatic government action or to stand back and allow the irresponsible actions of some to undermine the financial security of all.
SOT (9/24/08) 布什总统：随着形势变得越来越不稳定，我面临着一个选择：是采取戏剧性的政府行动介入，还是袖手旁观，允许某些人不负责任的行为破坏所有人的金融安全。
I’m a strong believer in free enterprise.
我是自由企业的坚定信徒。
So my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention.
所以我的本能是反对政府干预。
I believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business.
我认为做出错误决定的公司应该被允许倒闭。
Under normal circumstances, I would have followed this course.
在正常情况下，我会遵循这个过程。
But these are not normal circumstances.
但这些都不是正常情况。
Hank Paulson: The financial crisis hit at absolutely the worst time.
汉克·保尔森：金融危机绝对是在最糟糕的时候发生的。
It was weeks ahead of a national election.
距离全国大选还有几周时间。
So he was being attacked by Republicans as well as Democrats and by both presidential candidates.
因此，他受到了共和党人和民主党人以及两位总统候选人的攻击。
So he was taking it from all sides.
所以他从四面八方接受它。
Plus he had an economy on the brink, but he didn't let any of that get him down.
另外，他的经济濒临崩溃，但他并没有让任何事情让他沮丧。
Americans think that someone who's very articulate publicly is bright and someone that isn't as articulate publicly isn't as bright.
美国人认为，在公开场合善于表达的人是聪明的，而在公开场合不那么善于表达的人则不那么聪明。
I have watched President Bush in private and in private he commands the room and he focused on what needed to be done.
我私下里看过布什总统，私下里他指挥着整个房间，他专注于需要做的事情。
Ron Suskind: There’s no doubt he handles the financial meltdown better than Iraq.
罗恩·苏斯金德：毫无疑问，他比伊拉克更好地应对金融危机。
And he acts decisively in support of Paulson and the others to settle and anchor this thing before the ship starts listing.
而他果断行动，支持保尔森等人在船开始倾斜之前解决并抛锚这件事。
Tim Naftali: At the end of his presidency he showed the wisdom of Franklin Roosevelt.
蒂姆·纳夫塔利：在总统任期结束时，他展现了富兰克林·罗斯福的智慧。
And he starts a TARP process which is finished by Obama, And at least at that moment George W Bush was thinking of his legacy.
他启动了问题资产救助计划（TARP）进程，该进程由奥巴马完成，至少在那一刻，乔治·W·布什正在考虑他的遗产。
And he did not want his legacy to be partisan.
他不希望他的遗产带有党派之争。
Narrator: Bush had evolved as President, but too late to save his flagging popularity.
旁白：布什已经成为总统，但为时已晚，无法挽救他日渐衰弱的支持率。
On November 4th, 2008, Republicans were handed the sweeping defeat that many had anticipated.
2008 年 11 月 4 日，共和党如许多人所预料的那样遭遇了全面失败。
It was, above all, a verdict on the Iraq war.
首先，这是对伊拉克战争的判决。
Lawrence Wright: If you want to talk about George W.
劳伦斯·赖特：如果你想谈谈乔治·W·布什
Bush, his legacy, it will always be overshadowed by the catastrophe of the invasion of Iraq.
布什，他的遗产，将永远被入侵伊拉克的灾难所笼罩。
It's just unbelievable how much of America's wealth was lost, not to mention just the loss of life and the loss of faith that Americans have that their country is doing the right thing.
美国的财富损失之大令人难以置信，更不用说生命的损失和美国人对自己国家正在做正确事情的信心的丧失。
Narrator: As the clock counted down on his presidency, Bush joined White House correspondents for a final press conference.
旁白：当布什就任总统的时间倒计时时，他与白宫记者一起参加了最后一次新闻发布会。
SOT (Final Press Conference) Reporter: Do you think, in retrospect, that you have made any mistakes and, if so, what is the single biggest?
SOT（最终新闻发布会）记者：现在回想起来，您认为自己犯过什么错误吗？如果有的话，最大的错误是什么？
BUSH: You can make -- only make decisions, you know, on the information at hand.
布什：你知道，你只能根据手头的信息做出决定。
Peter Baker: He has been beset by so many crises, so many catastrophes, so many threats, so many challenges that it would have been overwhelming to almost anyone else.
彼得·贝克（Peter Baker）：他被如此多的危机、灾难、威胁、挑战所困扰，这对任何其他人来说都是难以承受的。
SOT (Final Press Conference) Bush: History will look back and determine that which could have been done better, or, you know, mistakes I made.
SOT（最后新闻发布会）布什：历史将回顾并决定哪些事情可以做得更好，或者，你知道，我犯了哪些错误。
Clearly putting a “mission accomplished” on a aircraft carrier was a mistake.
显然，把“任务完成”放在航空母舰上是一个错误。
Peter Baker: Some of it was his own creation and some of it wasn’t.
彼得·贝克：有些是他自己的创作，有些则不是。
SOT, Bush: There have been disappointments.
SOT，布什：有些令人失望。
Abu Ghraib obviously was a huge disappointment during the presidency.
阿布格莱布监狱在总统任期内显然令人非常失望。
I thought long and hard about Katrina.
我对卡特里娜飓风想了很久。
You know, could I have done something differently.
你知道，我可以做一些不同的事情吗？
Not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment.
没有大规模杀伤性武器是一个重大的失望。
I don’t know if you want to call those mistakes or not, but they were-- things didn’t go according to plan.
我不知道你是否愿意承认这些错误，但事情并没有按计划进行。
Let’s put it that way.
这么说吧。
Wayne Slater: It’s a presidency that will always be defined by 9-11, always be defined by the response to it, which his most ardent supporters will say was the response of a hero thrown into the fire, which his critics will say to get engaged in a war that we're still involved with all these years later.
韦恩·斯莱特：这个总统职位将永远由9-11来定义，永远由对它的反应来定义，他最热心的支持者会说这是英雄被投入火中的反应，他的批评者会说这是卷入了一场我们多年来仍然参与的战争。
And whatever you think of George W.
无论你如何看待乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush, however well you think he did or how poorly you think he did, he went through eight years of a presidency that was just exactly what he wanted, a consequential presidency.
布什，无论你认为他做得有多好，或者你认为他做得有多差，他度过了八年的总统任期，这正是他想要的，一个重要的总统任期。
Eugene Robinson: I have this vivid image of Bush in the rubble of the World Trade Center with the bullhorn.
尤金·罗宾逊：我对布什在世贸中心废墟中拿着扩音器的生动形象印象深刻。
That’s a moment that, I think, every American was proud of George W Bush.
我认为，在那个时刻，每个美国人都为乔治·W·布什感到自豪。
He had a measure of support that, um, uh, no president could ever dream of.
他得到了任何一位总统都无法梦想得到的支持。
Um, and in a sense he squandered it.
嗯，从某种意义上说，他浪费了它。
Narrator: He was leaving America still fighting two wars he had started -- in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
旁白：他离开美国时，仍在打他发起的两场战争——阿富汗和伊拉克。
And Iraq had still not become the catalyst for a democratic revolution across the Middle East that Bush had hoped for.
而伊拉克仍未成为布什所希望的中东民主革命的催化剂。
Robert Draper: The president’s virtues and vices were one and the same.
罗伯特·德雷珀：总统的优点和缺点是一回事。
You have the big picture visionary, who is also the person who won’t pay attention to the details when he needs to.
你有大局观、有远见，但在需要的时候却不会关注细节。
You have the consummate competitor who needs to have the adrenaline rush of the possibility of defeat before he’ll act.
你有一个完美的竞争者，他需要在可能失败的情况下肾上腺素激增，然后才会采取行动。
You have a person who believes he’s a leader, and doesn't know what’s happening beneath him.
你有一个人相信他是一个领导者，但不知道他下面发生了什么。
The fact that this man could be all of these things at once helps us understand why the Bush presidency is going to be a bit of a riddle for historians.
这个人可以同时具备所有这些特质，这一事实有助于我们理解为什么布什总统任期对历史学家来说有点像个谜。
He’s going to be judged as a guy who seemed very simple and, in fact, was a very complicated man.
他会被认为是一个看似很简单的人，但实际上却是一个非常复杂的人。
Josh Bolten: I was with President Bush on the morning of January 20, 2009, the last half-day of the presidency, and I remember coming into the Oval Office, and I found the same guy that I found every morning at 6:45.
乔什·博尔滕：2009 年 1 月 20 日早上，我和布什总统在一起，当时是总统任期的最后半天，我记得走进椭圆形办公室时，我发现了每天早上 6:45 发现的那个人。
If anything, a little more relaxed than usual, at peace with becoming former president.
如果说有什么不同的话，那就是比平时放松一点，对成为前总统感到平静。
I mean that, that was his personality.
我的意思是，这就是他的个性。
We decided just to wander around the West Wing for a couple minutes just to look around and he greeted some of the workers, much to their surprise, and then we went back to the Oval Office, and I thanked the President for the privilege of serving, as I had for eight years, and he said it was a privilege for all of us.
我们决定在西翼闲逛几分钟，环顾四周，他向一些工作人员打招呼，让他们大吃一惊，然后我们回到椭圆形办公室，我感谢总统给予我服务的荣幸，就像我八年来一样，他说这是我们所有人的荣幸。
And after we spoke those last words, he...he put his coat on, and he walked out the door to the Rose Garden from the Oval Office, and I watched him leave, and I noticed he didn't look back.
在我们说完最后一句话之后，他……他穿上外套，从椭圆形办公室走出通往玫瑰园的门，我看着他离开，我注意到他没有回头。
Dubose: You know George Bush made himself seem relatable to the average Joe, in fact because I think he is relatable to the average Joe, I think that is his personality.
杜博斯：你知道乔治·布什让自己看起来与普通人很相似，事实上，因为我认为他与普通人很相似，我认为这就是他的个性。
Gerson: He had this sense that this wasn’t controlling his entire life.
格尔森：他有一种感觉，这并不能控制他的整个生活。
He didn’t define himself entirely in terms of politics and that meant that there was a real human behind the image you saw and an authenticity that I think people really were attracted to.
他并没有完全从政治角度来定义自己，这意味着你所看到的图像背后有一个真实的人，我认为人们真的会被它所吸引的真实性所吸引。
Gerson: Yeah.
格尔森：是的。
I think it’s...I think one way to understand George Bush is that he is a man without a mask.
我认为……我认为理解乔治·布什的一种方式是，他是一个不戴面具的人。
If he’s in a meeting or on a stage he doesn’t want to be there.
如果他在开会或在舞台上，他就不想在那里。
You know it from the way he conducts himself.
你从他的行事方式就知道这一点。
If he is really into an event, if he is...his whole person is involved, you know that as well.
如果他真的热衷于某件事，如果他……他整个人都参与其中，你也知道这一点。
Some politicians have acting skills that allow them to be someone else in a circumstance like that.
有些政客的表演技巧可以让他们在这种情况下成为另一个人。
The President was really a man without a mask.
总统真是一个不戴面具的人。
He’s a person where...
他是一个在...的人
George Bush was really a man without a mask, a kind of leader that you knew exactly where he was from the expressions on his face, what his views were and what his attitudes were, and that was a form of authenticity that people I think really understood.
乔治·布什确实是一个不戴面具的人，是一个从他脸上的表情就能清楚地知道他在哪里、他的观点是什么、他的态度是什么的领导者，我认为这是人们真正理解的一种真实性。
There was no pretense to George Bush.
乔治·布什没有任何伪装。
There was conviction or sometimes boredom at events when he didn’t want to be there, but it was authentic either way.
当他不想参加的活动中，他会感到确信，有时会感到无聊，但无论如何，这都是真实的。
Gerson: Well, they were seeing...
格尔森：嗯，他们看到...
the American public was seeing someone who had not spent their entire life in politics.
美国公众看到的是一个一生都没有投身政治的人。
I mean, he went into politics as a middle-aged person and he didn’t have a set of acting skills that a lot of other politicians had developed over time, so you did get certain gaffes over the course of the campaign, but I think that they humanized him in a way that was different than say Dan Quayle where they judged him as a figure.
我的意思是，他作为一个中年人进入政界，他没有许多其他政客随着时间的推移而发展起来的一套表演技巧，所以在竞选过程中你确实会出现某些失态，但我认为他们以一种不同于丹·奎尔（Dan Quayle）的方式将他人性化，他们将他视为一个人物。
Lawrence Wright: We use the word charisma pretty carelessly.
劳伦斯·赖特（Lawrence Wright）：我们很不小心地使用了“魅力”这个词。
And I, I don't really think of George Bush as being charismatic, but there is a sense of authenticity about him and that he knows what he thinks and, uh, and he’s certain of it.
而我，我真的不认为乔治·布什有魅力，但他有一种真实感，他知道自己在想什么，而且，呃，他对此很确定。
He has a, he's at peace with who he is.
他有一个，他对自己是谁感到平静。
And, uh, he, you never felt that he was pushed off base.
而且，呃，他，你从来没有觉得他被推下了基地。
He always felt very centered.
他总觉得自己很集中。
And I think that gave, uh, voters a sense of confidence in him.
我认为这给了选民对他的信心。
Plus he was running against a very weak field.
另外，他的竞选对手是一个非常弱的对手。
Um, you know, there was only one real contender in his first race for president, and that was John McCain.
嗯，你知道，在他的第一场总统竞选中只有一个真正的竞争者，那就是约翰·麦凯恩。
And, uh, but you know, the expectations about George Bush were the here is this great successful, uh, governor from Texas.
而且，呃，但是你知道，人们对乔治·布什的期望是这位来自德克萨斯州的、非常成功的州长。
Uh, everybody likes him.
嗯，大家都喜欢他。
Uh, he's the Republican answer to the Kennedy Dynasty and you know, we're going to, we're going to have the same kind of success and prosperity that he enjoyed in Texas.
呃，他是共和党对肯尼迪王朝的回应，你知道，我们将获得他在德克萨斯州所享受的同样的成功和繁荣。
Wead: Yeah, I wasn’t there then, so, but I saw the clown afterwards, but Barbara says that he was transformed and was constantly trying to cheer her up, and that that’s when he began to develop his great personality.
韦德：是的，当时我不在场，所以，但后来我看到了小丑，但芭芭拉说他变了，并不断地试图让她高兴起来，从那时起，他开始发展他伟大的个性。
By the time I met him, he was already a work of art, in terms of his personality.
当我见到他时，就他的个性而言，他已经是一件艺术品了。
I mean, he was interesting, he was funny, he was dynamic, and he knew it.
我的意思是，他很有趣，他很有趣，他充满活力，他知道这一点。
He knew it.
他知道。
He knew he could walk into any room and conquer it, and you were helpless, and when he ran for president, I’ll never forget it.
他知道他可以走进任何房间并征服它，而你却很无助，当他竞选总统时，我永远不会忘记。
He, he had these guys come down from GQ, and they were going to interview him, and they’re going to take him on, he’s the Texan guy, and they’re gay and they’re sharp and they’re smart, and they know everything about everything, and they’re pro-choice, and they’re all these issues that…so, they’re going to come down.
他，他让这些人从《GQ》上下来，他们要采访他，他们要接受他，他是德克萨斯人，他们是同性恋，他们很敏锐，他们很聪明，他们知道一切，他们支持堕胎，他们都是这些问题……所以，他们会下来。
Absolutely, he knocked their socks off.
绝对，他让他们大吃一惊。
They go back, they write this great article about him, and they can’t believe he isn’t just their absolute brother-in-arms because of this great personality.
他们回去后写了一篇关于他的伟大文章，他们不敢相信他不仅因为他伟大的个性而成为他们绝对的战友。
He’s got it, and he know he’s got it, and he knows how to use it, and he knows what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do and how you’re going to react.
他知道了，他知道他知道了，他知道如何使用它，他知道你要做什么、如何做以及你将如何反应。
It’s very interesting.
这很有趣。
Interviewer: He’s charming.
采访者：他很有魅力。
Wead: But you didn’t see it public so much.
韦德：但你并没有经常看到它公开。
You know?
你知道？
He, that’s part of his discipline.
他，这是他纪律的一部分。
He had to do what he had to do to be presidential.
他必须做他必须做的事情才能成为总统。
Baker: He may not be a rocket scientist, he may not be a philosopher, he would tell you that himself, but he’s a smart guy.
贝克：他可能不是火箭科学家，他可能不是哲学家，他自己会告诉你，但他是一个聪明人。
Ratcliffe: I thought it’d be benign at worst.
拉特克利夫：我认为在最坏的情况下这也是良性的。
Yeah, I thought...up to that point, I thought George W.
是的，我想……在那之前，我认为乔治·W·布什 (George W.
Bush was...George W.
布什是……乔治·W.
Bush was a pragmatic politician.
布什是一位务实的政治家。
He wasn’t someone that had a whole lot of agendas on his plate, you know, personal agendas.
他不是一个有很多议程的人，你知道，个人议程。
And I really believed, up until the summer of 2000, that...that he would probably be just kind of a president who was there and maybe he could answer to a crisis.
直到 2000 年夏天，我真的相信……他可能只是一位在那里的总统，也许他可以应对危机。
I mean, the one thing you’ve got to understand with all presidential candidates is absolutely no one is prepared to be president when they get elected no matter how much background they have, and the presidency is an opportunity to rise to greatness or to fail.
我的意思是，对于所有总统候选人，你必须明白的一件事是，绝对没有人在当选时准备好成为总统，无论他们有多少背景，而总统职位是一个走向伟大或失败的机会。
And so I didn't think Bush was going...you know, nothing about George W.
所以我不认为布什会去……你知道，乔治·W·布什什么也没有。
Bush made me think he was going to be a great president, but that he had the capability of taking the presidency and perhaps rising to greatness.
布什让我认为他将成为一位伟大的总统，而且他有能力担任总统，甚至可能走向伟大。