Sam Brownback: “I rise to speak about the soon to be laid down amendment by Senator Warner on missile defense. This is a major topic for…”

“I rise to speak about the soon to be laid down amendment by Senator Warner on missile defense. This is a major topic for the body to consider. It is a major topic for the country. I want to address it from a number of different perspectives but primarily from the perspective of the threat we are facing in the international community today. We are seeing now what is taking place in Iran. I wish to draw special notice to what is occurring there. We are seeing terrorism being supported greatly from that country. We are seeing them supporting terrorist threats and terrorist efforts and funding and even providing arms to terrorists in a number of countries throughout the region. They are supporting it in Lebanon. They are supporting it in central Asia. They are developing the missile capacity in Iran. Iranian missile capacity has developed substantially now. They are expanding their sphere of influence to the extent of how far the delivery of their weaponry is that they can go with the missiles they have. Iran, as the President identified, is one of the countries comprising the axis of evil. They seek to do away with the Israeli State, they seek to expand substantially their threat in the region, and they are no friend of the United States. They also have no reservation whatsoever about using the weapons of mass destruction that they have, even targeted toward the United States. Here is a country that clearly means us harm.”