W. Todd Akin: “just as an introduction, it seems to me that, to a certain degree, the other party doeth protest too much. The first…”

“just as an introduction, it seems to me that, to a certain degree, the other party doeth protest too much. The first thing I have been hearing about is complaints about intelligence information. Yet it was the other party, the Democrat Party, that under the Church Commission dismantled our human intelligence and has consistently done that. Over the 8 years Clinton was in office, they voted to cut the human intelligence budget 30 percent and now want to complain about the fact that our intelligence information is not that good. This is also a party that cut the defense budget close to half and wonders why there is not some equipment sometimes. They cannot have it both ways. But I would like to focus, rather, about what was and what is now. What was, we saw. We saw the late-night knock of the secret police. We saw the torture chambers when I was in Iraq that used to exist. We saw the women that had been raped as a form of political coercion. We saw women that were not educated. Those things have changed. Because what is now is a society that is moving into a new century, a place where women can be educated, where no longer torture and murder and amputation are used as a tool to intimidate, and where we saw on the streets of Iraq people starting to emerge into a free civilization. There are all kinds of new businesses being formed. These are words from a brave Iraqi Parliamentarian, probably risking his life, talking about the new constitution.”