Dan Burton: “the liberal media and my liberal colleagues are attacking the President for protecting America. The wiretaps that he has…”

“the liberal media and my liberal colleagues are attacking the President for protecting America. The wiretaps that he has ordered are legal, and he informed the Intelligence Committees 12 times about them. What are we going to do? Are we going to wait around until terrorists attack us and then say we ought to check what they are saying on the telephone to their al Qaeda buddies? The fact of the matter is the President is defending the United States of America, and we should be supporting him. The PATRIOT Act, which is being stuck in the Senate, needs to be passed. We need to get these guys and stop them before they attack buildings in New York or Indianapolis or California or Washington, D.C., and the President wants to do that. That is why the PATRIOT Act is so important. Let's talk about torture. Putting a guy on a water board who is about to blow up a bunch of soldiers in Baghdad and holding him under the water for a little bit to make him tell us what he is going to do or if he is going to cut somebody's head off that is an innocent civilian, or go into a school and blow up a bunch of kids is not what I call terrible. We are not pulling out their fingernails or cutting off their heads. We need to put pressure on them to tell us what's going on so we can save Americans and American troops. This is a war. It is not a tea party. And we need to win it. The President is doing the right thing, and we need to support him. God bless President Bush.…”