Porter Goss: “there exists a nation that for over 40 years has repeatedly declared its hostile intentions towards the United States of…”

“there exists a nation that for over 40 years has repeatedly declared its hostile intentions towards the United States of America and American citizens. It has consistently allied itself with our enemies, it has sought nuclear weapons on its soil, and abused its own citizens. It has violated human rights in an egregious way. This nation today is on the State Department list for sponsoring terrorism, and in the past it has provided funds and shelter for terrorist groups, groups such as the ETA, the Basque Nationalists, Colombian guerrillas, committing some of the great atrocities going on in our hemisphere now, IRA leaders, possibly even Iranian agents and others. This nation's dictator has failed to share any useful intelligence information with us since 9/11, and calls our military response in Afghanistan not ``a war on terrorism,'' but ``a war for terrorism.'' The state, of course, I am referring to is Cuba, a nation only 90 miles from the southern boundaries of the United States of America.”