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Dana Rohrabacher

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Dana Rohrabacher is a former U.S. Representative for California's 48th congressional district, serving from 1989 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his libertarian views and strong support for the tech industry. During his time in Congress, Rohrabacher was an advocate for various issues, including technology innovation and foreign policy matters, particularly regarding Taiwan and its democratic governance. He often emphasized the importance of individual liberties and limited government intervention.

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Dec 6, 2011

Will you take that message back and give us an answer, will this President meet with Prime Minister Maliki even if he hasn't made an agreement on this issue, come to an understanding?

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Dec 6, 2011

If there is another massacre, the people at our State Department, if they have not removed this designation as a terrorist organization, they are partly responsible.

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Dec 6, 2011

To me it sounds like someone in State Department spent a lot of time in college watching Animal House.

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Dec 6, 2011

We should take this very seriously because China is taking it seriously, not only in manipulating the market...

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Dec 6, 2011

Those are not terrorists, those were allies.

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Dec 6, 2011

Let me get this straight. Mr. Ambassador, the massacre that has already taken place until that is dealt with legally, and the people who committed that murder are brought to justice...

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Dec 6, 2011

Oh, I don't think there is one thing that is going to solve this, even getting them off the terrorist list, but that will be a big step forward.

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Dec 6, 2011

Just know that there with a program just here in our committee about training the Iraqi police, which was going to be a $900 million program over a certain number of years.

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Dec 6, 2011

The December 31 deadline I believe is simply a pretense to carry out the forced repatriation of these residents, forced repatriation to brutality, to torture, and to an environment of death.

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Dec 6, 2011

I mean, I remember Jomo Kenyatta was a terrorist. Oh, boy, they frightened the whole world with terrorism about him.

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Dec 6, 2011

The State Department calls these people terrorists.

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Dec 6, 2011

However, we now have a video of our arms shooting down innocent women and children, and Iraqi army officers engaged in aiming their rifles and shooting the guns themselves, that we don't retaliate at all against that.

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Dec 6, 2011

The residents of Camp Ashraf said they don't trust the Iraqi Government. I don't blame them.

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Dec 6, 2011

This hearing is the last chance for Congress to impress upon the State Department the gravity of the crisis that we face and the stain on American honor that will result if action is not taken to avert another massacre of unarmed civilians…

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Dec 6, 2011

That was not 'indiscriminate' shooting. That was worse. That was very discriminate.

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Dec 6, 2011

I believe even attacking the military of another country should not be called terrorism.

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Dec 6, 2011

The mullah regime will someday fall. And let us make sure that these brave souls at Camp Ashraf... are able to go home to a free and democratic Iran.

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Dec 6, 2011

I personally believe that we need to have a definition of terrorism and stick to it.

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Dec 6, 2011

Is it the policy of the State Department to make commitments for providing documents to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives but to do so with an intent of not fulfilling that pledge?

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Dec 6, 2011

Attacking the troops of a dictatorship is certainly not terrorism.

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Dec 6, 2011

Why are we, the United States, being an accomplice to this crime? If they are deported or subjected to another massacre, the blood in the sand will also stain the Gucci shoes of our U.S. State Department.

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Dec 6, 2011

What the residents want is to be moved to another country besides Iran.

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Dec 6, 2011

Well, let me just note that when I was younger I remember seeing Mussolini strung up by his heels, and I had no sympathy for Mussolini. And I have seen dictators strung up by their heels, and I don't care what they did to Saddam Hussein. I…

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Dec 6, 2011

I do submit the State Department employees today are serving Secretary Clinton no better than they were serving Colin Powell.

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Dec 6, 2011

We can't afford to let that happen. That would be a huge defeat for the cause of freedom in the region and stability and peace.

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