Political Quotes

“Shame on anyone who would say that. I was a first lieutenant about to be a captain when the war was declared against us 47 years ago. Iran has been at war with us and the world for 47 years. In 1982, I was a young captain when they killed 220 marines with their bombs and their proxies in Lebanon. Should we say, in fact, this is not defense of America against a country that every day for 47 years has said that we are the evil ones and must be destroyed? First of all, the right to defend, going back to Thomas Jefferson, has not been a question of the Constitution. It has been an obligation of the President. To invoke the War Powers Act as though this is not defense and then to imply that there is any purpose other than to recognize that this pervasive threat that has killed Americans and others around the world decade after decade was getting stronger and stronger? The fact is, around the world, we are at war with the country of Iran.”