[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 153 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H9996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              BRING SOME COMMON SENSE TO FOREIGN RELATIONS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, see if this makes sense. America gives 
billions of foreign aid to Russia; Russia then takes American cash and 
builds new weapons; Russia then offers to sell the old weapons to Iran. 
America trying to keep nuclear technology from Iran, and they buy the 
old weapons from Russia. Russia then asks America for more foreign aid. 
America trying to keep the Marx brothers out of Russia, and I do not 
mean Groucho, give Russia more foreign aid.
  After all this, the State Department labels the National Council 
Resistance, the opposition party in Iran, fighting for democracy, 
trying to throw those bums out. They label them a terrorist group.
  Unbelievable. How dumb can Uncle Sam be? Let us tell it like it is. 
Those Russian nuclear scientists are not hanging around Iran to watch 
belly dancers. What is next? Will the Pentagon lease Tehran?
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. With a foreign policy like this, I do not 
know how we still have our sovereignty.

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