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Louie Gohmert: Well, as long as you don't say that somebody lied, then we're okay. But I know that there are people who are concerned…

On the recordMay 28, 2010
Well, as long as you don't say that somebody lied, then we're okay. But I know that there are people who are concerned that if we are just nice enough to those folks who want to kill us and destroy our way of life, that they'll come around and see how wonderful and nice they are. Unfortunately, they don't realize, to those who want to destroy our way of life and kill us, it appears to be weakness; and a weakness to them means we are worthy to be destroyed because we have no business being on the planet. But I know there are still those that say let's help those, do everything we can for them. And I come back to this article. There's a former CIA operative, Wayne Simmons, terrorist analyst, who was amazed at the medical treatment that was provided to those who want to kill and destroy us. Having been to Guantanamo a couple of times myself, seeing the extraordinary court set-up that was ready to start trying terrorists back over a year ago when the President, the Commander-in-Chief, put the stop on it, they were about to go to trial and the first five to go to trial had already said they were going to plead guilty. But once they were told they were coming to New York and were going to get a civilian trial, well, obviously they made clear, well, we're going to be proud of what we did but we're not going to plead guilty. We're looking forward to that wonderful format in New York.
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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May 28, 2010

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Gohmert discusses concerns about treating terrorists and the implications of civilian trials for them.

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