Bill Delahunt: “I think the gentlelady who chairs the Middle East Subcommittee spoke about the unified government that now sits in Iraq.…”

“I think the gentlelady who chairs the Middle East Subcommittee spoke about the unified government that now sits in Iraq. Well, her understanding and my understanding of the term 'unified' I would suggest are irreconcilable. The Iraqi parliament since it was constituted has been unable to agree on hardly any issue. In fact, they have entered into a particularly fractious moment where the continued existence of the government is in some doubt. But what I find interesting is the only issue that they have agreed on, and it is important to understand that there is some 275 members of the Iraqi parliament, is a resolution condemning the State of Israel for defending itself. The language that the Iraqi Parliament used in that resolution was condemning the criminal aggression of the State of Israel in defending itself.”