John Ensign: “I believe we will have relationships with France and Germany. We have had many good relationships with both of those…”

“I believe we will have relationships with France and Germany. We have had many good relationships with both of those countries in the past. I believe we need to have good relations with both of them in the future. But I just think it would be patently wrong for us to use money from this supplemental bill we are doing today in providing for the rebuilding of Iraq, it would be absolutely wrong to use that money for countries that actively tried to get the rest of the world to oppose us in doing what the United States believed was right in the world: To disarm a brutal dictator, to rid his own country of weapons of mass destruction which he has used against his neighbors. When a country stands up and tries to do what is right--not in an arrogant sort of a way but in a way in which it is trying to do something that is right--its closest allies should not lead some of the world opinion against it. The United States during World War II was the leader with our allies in getting rid of a brutal dictator back then. Today the United States is attempting to do the same thing. Some countries tried to appease Adolf Hitler during World War II. We were hearing up until this a lot of the same arguments, especially from the French, about Saddam Hussein. Well, we will just deal with him. We could just appease him, just keep him going along. I believe brutal dictators understand force. They understand countries that will stand up to them.”