Jim Inhofe: “I think my colleague from Oklahoma is exactly right. We can carry it one step further. We have these freedoms and that…”

“I think my colleague from Oklahoma is exactly right. We can carry it one step further. We have these freedoms and that is why they hate us so much; they don't have these freedoms. The idea that individuals can have the freedoms we in this country have is totally alien to everything they believe in. I sat there as others did--I am sure my colleague from Oklahoma did this morning--and looked at the Pentagon, and I know what went through his mind and what went through my mind was the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. We lost about the same number of lives back then as we did in the Pentagon. There are a lot of other similarities there. The appearance after the airplane struck was so similar to that which we experienced in Oklahoma City. That brought back those very sad memories. I sometimes look at things and ask, How can anything good come from something as bad as all that? Yet I can see--it is obvious, as I saw the changes in attitudes of people here in this body, and also the body down the hall--they are reflecting the interests of the American people. I have been concerned for the last 10 years with the deterioration in the condition of our military.”