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Louie Gohmert: We have had a lot in the news recently about questions being asked of people running for President. It has been…

On the recordMay 18, 2015
We have had a lot in the news recently about questions being asked of people running for President. It has been interesting. In taking that issue up, though, it is important to look at some of the current news. Here is an article on May 17 by Bill Sanderson of the New York Post. It says: ``Saudi Arabia to buy nuclear bombs from Pakistan.'' It says: Saudi Arabia will join the nuclear club by buying ``off- the-shelf'' atomic weapons from Pakistan, U.S. officials told a London newspaper. Wow. Well, that was something that we weren't expecting back when President Bush went into Iraq when he made that call that some day, Saudi Arabia and others in the Middle East would become so nervous about the chaos created in the Middle East that they would determine: We may need to get nuclear weapons ourselves. In the past, we have always been comforted by the fact that the United States would keep peace in the Middle East. They wouldn't let anything get out of hand. They would keep other Middle Eastern countries, especially radical Islamist countries, from having nukes. This administration has shown it is not capable of preventing nukes from proliferation in the Middle East, so therefore, our allies our getting quite nervous. Here is an article from today by a brilliant prosecutor of the original bomber of the World Trade Center in 1993, Andrew McCarthy. It is dated today, May 18.…
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Louie Gohmert
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May 18, 2015

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