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Jack Kingston: you know, one of the questions that I never hear asked and certainly don't hear answered by those who want to pull out…

On the recordMay 15, 2007
you know, one of the questions that I never hear asked and certainly don't hear answered by those who want to pull out of Iraq, like Harry Reid, who says the war is already lost, I have a question for him and others who say that the war is lost. As soon as America pulls out, the people like al Maliki, or Deputy Prime Minister Saleh, who was here in the Capitol last week, it would be a death sentence to them. All those folks who stepped forward who bought into the American and international concept of freedom and self-government and democracy, they will be executed. Now, what are we going to do? Are we going to give amnesty to political refugees, 50,000, 100,000? Maybe those on the left have an estimate of how many people we would open our border to. But I can say this: There is no question about it, these folks who stepped forward to try to build a new government will be executed. Their children will be executed. Their spouses will be executed. Their grandparents will be executed. So inevitably we will open up the borders to them as political refugees. My question is, how many of those will we let in, and can we do that now on a bipartisan basis?
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the implications of a potential U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

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