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Bush: Spreading Liberty Is The “Calling Of Our Time”

HeadlineJan 21, 2005

President Bush vowed Thursday in his second inauguration address to spread freedom around the globe and to target the world’s tyrannies.

Bush pledged to purge the world of undemocratic governments saying “Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world: All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors.”

Bush said the spread of liberty around the world was the “calling of our time.”

He mentioned the words liberty and freedom more than 40 times but he never directly mentioned the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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