Dan Burton: “the reason this is very distressing to me is President Carter had the same kind of policy that the gentleman is talking…”

“the reason this is very distressing to me is President Carter had the same kind of policy that the gentleman is talking about during his administration, and when Ronald Reagan came in, we had seen 10 or 11 countries go Communist because, first of all, we did not have that determination to deal with them; and, second, we were not militarily prepared. And if we are not militarily prepared, we are going to have problems with some of these terrorist states: Iran, Iraq and some of these others, Libya, that are trying to get nuclear weaponry and delivery systems now. So I think it needs to be made very clear to everybody that is paying attention, all of our colleagues, that without military preparedness we could have all kinds of problems like we had back in the early 1980's because we were not prepared. I remember back then when I came to Congress we had people in training exercises that were using dummy shells in order to prepare. And that is something we cannot tolerate.”