Let me read, these are different Members, every quote so far this evening has been from a different Member. I will read from another Member: ``We in this body have a constitutional responsibility to protect the national security of the United States. This one-sided intervention in a far-off war has the potential to do great harm to our national security.'' I think that is exactly the point that the gentleman is making. That if someone is saying that, what is the implication, that there really is a duality, that there is both sides? And I think what was said is that for an act of terror, an act of killing innocents there are no two sides. This is just a follow-up. Literally just another pick of weapons seized and there are more and there are more and there are more. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) asked just a comment on the Karin- A issue, and I thought since it is a relevant event, in a sense it was not directly tied to the incursion, but it gives a sense of the context to the Palestinian Authority and Yassar Arafat personally. The weapons on the Karin-A were $20 million of weapons but literally weapons off the shelf of munitions factories in Iran.…
Peter Deutsch: “Let me read, these are different Members, every quote so far this evening has been from a different Member. I will read…”
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Discussing national security and the implications of foreign intervention during a floor speech.
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