Barack Obama actually said...

Your service, right here, is rooted in the shared values of today's Japan and today's United States: the values of freedom, the values of democracy, the values of human rights, the values of rule of law.

Context

Remarks to United States and Japanese Troops at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Iwakuni

05/26/2016

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