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On the recordApril 14, 2010
Well, we do have the danger of Iran about to go nuclear at the same time, as you all have pointed out, that our President cancelled what took so long and took such great effort by so many, including our friends in Poland, to establish this missile defense that was going to be built. That got cancelled. That was going to help protect us. That was going to help protect our allies. I just want to read here some of the comments that have been made. President Barack Obama said on November 7, 2008, ``Let me repeat what I stated during the course of the campaign. Iran's development of a nuclear weapon, I believe, is unacceptable.'' He said on October 20, 2009, that the bond between the United States and Israel is much more than a strategic alliance. And then you look at what Ahmadinejad has said. He said in 2005, quote, ``God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.'' He also said that Israel was to be wiped off the map. He said, ``Like it or not, Israel is heading toward annihilation.'' He also said, ``Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come, and the countdown to annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.'' It has started. And we are disarming unilaterally while Iran--we are talking about maybe some sanctions, like maybe that will work as well as it did against Iraq? It didn't work because people cheated.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas

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