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"War Without Widows"
is an idea whose time has come.
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Today, thanks
to the joint efforts
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of the Department of Defense
and Oslett Technologies...
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we begin an awesome adventure.
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The age of sending our fragile
irreplaceable sons to war is over.
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From a thread of DNA taken
from a single human blood cell
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and implanted in the nucleus
of an unfertilized egg...
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we will forge
a new warrior.
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A warrior who leaves
no widows or orphans
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and feels no grief or fear.
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And with enough fuel
his wounds will heal themselves
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almost instantly and he'll be able
to march for days with no sleep.
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And if I'm to believe
what the scientists
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are telling me about a gene that
carries extra sensory powers...
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he may even someday be capable
of getting his orders telepathically.
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And he will never doubt the moral
foundation of any order...
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even in his heart.
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It's that doubt that is
a soldier's greatest agony.
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He won't have superhuman strength...
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but his metabolism will be
to yours and mine as...
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well as the engine of a
Lamborghini is to a bicycle.
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You'll note the child has reached
full gestation in only 19 weeks.
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If the growth agents
we've been experimenting with
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keep working miracles
at the same rate...
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he'll be ready for the kind of
work General Ames has in mind
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by the time he's chronologically
ten years old.
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It's unfortunate this breakthrough comes
at the expense of a tragic accident.
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Well, Senator...
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I like to think that
a brilliant young athlete...
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even after death,
has the opportunity to do great things.
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I mean, we're standing
at Kitty Hawk, my friends.
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We're watching Columbus
sail from Cadiz.