Dana Rohrabacher: “As I say, we have every reason to be proud of what the United States did during the gulf war to protect Kuwait and the…”

“As I say, we have every reason to be proud of what the United States did during the gulf war to protect Kuwait and the other people of the Middle East against aggression. We have every reason to be proud of Kuwait since then because they have become a more democratized system. They have more of a functioning, representative government and they have reached out to end human rights abuses and moved forward to establish freedoms they did not have before. We can also be very proud of the Kuwaitis for what they did when they were being held hostage and occupied by Saddam Hussein. They in fact risked their lives, common Kuwaitis risked their lives to protect the lives of American citizens who happened to be in Kuwait at the time that Saddam Hussein invaded. Just as the Kuwaiti people risked their lives for those Americans they did not even know, we should tonight make it our business to tell Saddam Hussein and the regime in Iraq that those Kuwaitis who they hold must be released and we must think about them. We may not know them but we know the Kuwaiti people risked their lives for Americans they did not know. Let us pay that courtesy back and insist that Saddam Hussein release all those prisoners.”