Happy B-Day BONO, 2006-05-10 (Bono talking about AMERICA)

Happy B-Day BONO. Is your birthday..

One year ago you were with U2 in Chicago. Below is a text that Bono said before the "One" song.

U2
Vertigo Tour 2005
Live From Chicago
Message For The World

"
When...
When I was a boy...
My first impression of America...
Was a man...
Walking on the Moon.
And ah, Neil Armstrong...
1969.
I thought, I thought: "This americans are mad.
They are mad."
But I thought: "What can this Country do..."
What can this people do, when they put their minds into it, it's incredible.
John F. Kennedy was the one in 1963 he said:
"By the end of the decade, were going to put a man on the moon."
Well...
It's not because was on everybodys mind...
It just...
It was the right thing to do.
And was.
It was what we are asking now to President Bush...
To Prime-Minister Blair and all the other world leaders to do.
We're asking them to do...
Something extraordinaire.
Not put a man on the Moon...
More like, put mankind back on Earth.
We have the technology...
We have the resources, we have the know-how...
To end the extreme poverty...
If,
If we have the will.
And I believe we have the will.
Others...
You know we have the civil rights movement...
Others, ended apartheid, others talked about the iron curtain.
This is what this generation.
That's up to us.
Our Moon shot, our put the man on the Moon.
We're going to end extreme poverty...
We're going to make poverty history.
That's whats fallen us to do.
And I believe...
That's not an impossible adventure.
I believe, in 50 years, I look back on this moment...
And I'll say...
There was some people...
On a time who said: "It's not ok...
To have a child dying for the lack of a twenty cent imunisation...
It's not ok to have a child die for lack of food in his belly, on the 21st century.
That's not ok anymore."
And I know you know that.
But I'd like you to tell...
To president Bush that...
Prime-minister Blair that and any other politicians you see.
You can do quite easy,
Just take out your cell-phone.
Anyone got cell-phone here?
You can get yourself into a lot of trouble with a cell-phone, check it out.
Cell-phones...
Think those slippery devices...
Turn my lights off, Bruce.
So, we're looking for a million americans...
To email us to join the One campaign.
Not looking for your money...
Looking, for your voice.
"