Political Quotes

“I think it was General Casey who said if we leave Iraq prematurely, they will follow us home. I will finish what the American Enterprise Institute analyst said about this presence in Iraq. He said jihadists from around the world have flocked to Iraq to fight America and its allies. They believe they will win and drive the infidels from Mesopotamia, the name they use to emphasize that they have no regard for modern national identities. If they succeed in Iraq, they say they will use it as a base from which to conquer the rest of the lands surrounding the Persian Gulf, a jumping off point for further conquest. In Time magazine Sunday, Max Boot writes this. He says, if we believe that wholeheartedly supporting friendly dictators works, we should remember that our support for the Shah of Iran in the 1970s and Yasser Arafat in the 1990s has taught us that secular strongmen cannot keep the lid on forever. Either we push for change now, or we risk a fundamentalist explosion later on, and we need to be honest with the American people, to my friend from Florida, and let the people know that we have difficult days ahead. I have been on the Homeland Security appropriations subcommittee for 4 years. I have been briefed at the highest level. I have been to the United Nations, I have met with our allies from Europe and the Middle East. I have got deeply into the issue of the nuclear threats and how terrorists are very interested in the A.Q.…”