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Brian Bilbray: “He is from Brisbane. Queensland. He stood up and said, and this is a passivist, he said you are the greatest military…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
He is from Brisbane. Queensland. He stood up and said, and this is a passivist, he said you are the greatest military power, the greatest strongest Nation in the world. You go all over the world to defend other people's borders and you cannot even defend your own. And I said, Jim, that is not the crime; that is not the sin. The crime and the sin is not that we cannot, but we choose not to.
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Brian Bilbray
California

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Discussing U.S. military power and border security.

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