Tom Lantos: “while America slept, another suicide bomber hit in Israel. Sixteen innocent people were killed, over 50 people were…”

“while America slept, another suicide bomber hit in Israel. Sixteen innocent people were killed, over 50 people were wounded, many of them critically. Our population is 50 times that of Israel. On a comparable scale, this would be like reading in our morning paper that 800 American citizens were massacred overnight, with some 2,500 wounded, many critically. In his speech at West Point, the President clearly stated, ``The only way to deal with terrorists is by preemptive action.'' We will have to do this wherever terrorists are planning to hit us, and the Israelis have to do it to protect their own citizens. This pattern of murder must come to an end.”