Political Quotes

“My colleagues, I have a lot of respect for my friend from Virginia, but this amendment is a bad amendment. It's an amendment which goes to the very core of the Guantanamo facility, the purpose of the Guantanamo facility, the nature of the people who are imprisoned in the Guantanamo facility, and the ongoing war against terrorism. Now, I'm reading my friend's amendment, and it directs DOD to undertake a plan for the transfer of each individual presently imprisoned at Guantanamo. Ladies and gentlemen, the people who are imprisoned in Guantanamo are largely terrorists. They include people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has admitted in court that he planned the attack on 9/11 that destroyed thousands of American lives. It includes people like Abu Zubaydah, who helped smuggle now deceased al Qaeda leader al-Zarqawi and some 70 Arab fighters out of Kandahar, Afghanistan into Iran, who also tried to organize a terrorist attack in Israel, who was recruited by Osama Bin Laden. It includes Ahmed Galeni, who worked for al Qaeda's chief of external operations and forged or altered passports for many al Qaeda members, who knew and met many of the operatives involved in the attacks, including Fahid Masala, who was asked to help the group purchase TNT for trucks and gas cylinders that would later be used to construct a car bomb, requests which he fulfilled. Ladies and gentlemen, these are people who understand how to kill large numbers of people.…”