[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 26, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S10156]
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                             WAR ON TERROR

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I rise to speak for a few minutes in 
morning business.
  In August, I received a letter from a constituent, Mr. John Dodgen, 
of Humboldt, IA. Along with the letter, Mr. Dodgen enclosed a copy of 
an opinion piece he authored regarding the war on terror that was 
published in the local newspaper.
  In his opinion piece, Mr. Dodgen rightly asserts that the United 
States is engaged in a global war on terror with an enemy whose goal is 
the elimination of the United States. I also strongly agree with his 
premise that we must take the fight to the terrorists where they 
operate or we will be forced to confront them on our soil. This is a 
war that we must win, and we must remain on the offense until the war 
is won.
  Mr. Dodgen raises some compelling thoughts in his opinion piece. 
Rather than try to summarize all of Mr. Dodgen's points and 
recommendations, I would like to submit for the Record his thoughts on 
controlling terrorism.
  I ask unanimous consent that the text of Mr. Dodgen's opinion piece 
be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                         Controlling Terrorism

       Our world is made-up of two dramatically opposed factions. 
     Those who enjoy freedom versus those who would enslave the 
     world. This is not a debatable subject--it's an all out world 
     war of ideologies.
       As a nation of freedom, we are engaged in a conflict that 
     must be won or our world culture will be reduced to the dark 
     ages. We are engaged in a conflict for survival.
       The nations of Iran, Syria, North Korea, and the terrorists 
     of Hezbollah all seek one objective--the destruction of 
     Israel and the United States. They are like ``mad dogs''. 
     There is no way to reason with them to a peace loving state. 
     The only solution with a rabies infected dog is to destroy 
     it. This same strategy does not apply to all Muslims, only 
     those lunatic, malicious, hateful, and destruction-minded 
     fanatics who declared war on ``infidels'' several years ago. 
     In World War II the allies stopped Hitler, Mussolini and 
     Japan from destroying half the world. Ninety percent of my 
     Navy amphibious group were killed or wounded invading the 
     Philippines and millions of others were killed in tragic 
     World War II.
       While we still have a chance to stamp out the hate and 
     suicidal destructive force in our world, the U.S. and our 
     allies should confront Iran, Syria, North Korea, and 
     Hezbollah with an ultimatum to destroy their rockets and 
     nuclear warhead pursuits or we will have no alternative but 
     to destroy them ourselves with or without the United Nations 
     blessing. It's totally unrealistic to think that negotiations 
     with these evil nations will solve or alleviate the threat, 
     so we should bring this to a head before they attack any 
     other nations and unleash their evil hatred and destruction 
     on innocent, peace-loving people. We should use every means 
     within our power to reduce their threat to insignificance. 
     There is no other course; we should act now while our 
     declared and profound enemies are vulnerable to our 
     containment. If we wait and try to solve our world's conflict 
     with diplomacy and negotiation, we are fooling ourselves and 
     eventually our nation and our love for freedom and peaceful 
     existence on Earth will be destroyed.
       In past history, two postures for our nation--The Monroe 
     Doctrine and Teddy Roosevelt's ``Walk Softly And Carry A Big 
     Stick Policy--along with President Kennedy's demand that 
     Russia withdraw rockets with nuclear warheads from Cuba, kept 
     us from wars to maintain our freedom. Now we need to declare 
     and carry out the United States world position that we will 
     not tolerate ``evil and war mongering'' nations, and unless 
     they cease and desist of such a threat they will have the 
     United States and its overwhelming power to force them to do 
     so. We were able to convince Libya to stop its terrorism with 
     a well placed bomb; we can do the same with the other 
     terrorist nations listed.
       America needs to withdraw from the United Nations as they 
     have utterly failed from their beginning existence to keep 
     the peace or more than temporarily stop aggression and human 
     suffering. What the world needs is for the United States to 
     establish a ``World Peace Council'' made up of: The President 
     of the United States; The Prime Minister of England; Queen 
     Elizabeth and/or Australia's Governor General; The President 
     and/or The Prime Minister of Russia; The President of China; 
     The Emperor and/or Prime Minister of Japan; The President of 
     India.
       These nations could meet for three days every month to 
     determine the issues requiring their attention, determine the 
     appropriate action, and then enforce their decision based on 
     the majority vote of the council. A veto would be prohibited. 
     Funding would be on an assessed basis from the seven nations 
     plus other voluntary freedom loving nations and a chosen 
     General whose International Police Force would be enlisted on 
     a country by country basis to carry out the seven nations' 
     solution.
       If any of the nations selected to form the World Peace 
     Council chooses not to serve or withdraws, then the remaining 
     members would select a nation for their replacement. In the 
     case of a tie vote, another candidate would be chosen until a 
     majority vote determined the successor.
       As a Christian, it is utterly deplorable for me to come to 
     the above conclusion. However; as a practical human being and 
     a concerned U.S. Citizen, I acknowledge that terrorism is a 
     fact that must be recognized and dealt with. I therefore urge 
     our Congress and President to declare an ultimatum on the 
     nations of terrorists and restrain them while we still have 
     the power and resolve to do so. We cannot wait until we have 
     another Pearl Harbor, Cuban Missile Crisis, or 9/11 before we 
     stop this aggression.

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