Political Quotes

“The acting Secretary of the Army I am afraid has not gotten that particular message because in relation to right in my own district out in Hawaii, the movement of troops out of the 25th up at Schofield Barracks, out into Asia and into Iraq, the movement of Guard and Reserve troops, indicated that this was justified on the basis that if we did not fight them, presumably whoever these people are, terrorists and opposition, military opposition, fight them over there, wherever 'there' is, that we would be fighting them here, that is to say, in the United States. The clear link there obviously is that had we not attacked Iraq, Iraq would somehow be attacking the United States, that somehow we would be the victims of an assault by Iraq or the forces of Iraq and presumably by that meaning Saddam Hussein.”