[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 125 (Friday, September 29, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1982]
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                           THE LEGION OF DOOM

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                              HON. TED POE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 29, 2006

  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, this week Seven-Eleven stores are telling CITGO 
to hit the road. Now, Hugo Chavez has no one to thank but himself.
  CITGO is owned by his Venezuelan government and after last week, when 
Chavez called President Bush the devil and an alcoholic then railed on 
capitalism, Seven-Eleven revealed it was choosing to use American 
gasoline distributors. It's a good lesson in that thing we like to call 
capitalism.
  Whether Seven-Eleven's decision is business or political, I am happy 
that they made it. Americans are sick and tired of foreign regimes, 
their tirades, and their threats at the U.N. and around the world.
  President Bush, long ago, targeted his Axis of Evil. An axis broken 
when U.S. soldiers pulled Saddam Hussein out of his hole in the ground, 
deep in Iraq. However, these recent fist banging rants have made it all 
too clear that we face more than just 3 enemies around the world. We 
are facing an entire ``Legion of Doom.''
  Their caustic club is headed by the forked tongue Chavez. He's a man 
who only recently had his most memorable international tantrum, filled 
with slurs, lies and outbursts about the U.S.
  The former leader of the Legion of Doom, Fidel Castro, has health 
problems as severe as his country's economic issues. After decades of 
bad policies, he still manages to throw stones at the U.S. while his 
people are starving on Cuban streets. Now he's recruited Chavez to 
finish his dirty work.
  The legion under Chavez's leadership counts among its members: 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Kim Jong II of North Korea, and their 
instigating intern, the drug smuggling Evo Morales of Bolivia. He's the 
world leader who brought a coca leaf to the U.N. to extol the virtues 
of the cocaine plant and run down the U.S. for our anti-drug policies. 
Perhaps his drug smuggling act was all in the hope that his stunts will 
someday allow him to be a big boy member of the legion.
  These new younger Legion of Doom members have nuclear ambitions on 
their mind. Take for instance Kim Jung ll of North Korea. After feuding 
for years over nuclear power to supposedly improve the lives of his 
people, he finally just decided to take matters into his own hands. He 
got down to the nuclear business he really wanted--making missiles. 
Apparently that will help his ailing countrymen more than hot water or 
electricity.
  Just to prove he'd been diligently developing Missiles, he waited 
until July 4th of this year to test their range. They came up short, 
instead of flying high they fell into the Sea of Japan. No one is sure 
if he was attempting to threaten the U.S., Japan or South Korea, or 
just show how many missiles he has.
  That series of missile launches then prompted another member of the 
Legion of doom to test the boundaries too. Now Iran's President Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad is demanding the same so-called civil nuclear program. He 
insists he is not trying to make nuclear bombs, but nuclear power.
  Just like Kim Jong ll, no one believes him. His lack of credibility 
could be due in part to the way he's freely discussed his wish to wipe 
Israel off the face of the planet and his denial that the holocaust 
ever happened. This is the same man who is accused of holding U.S. 
soldiers hostage after taking over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. 
He's also accused of supplying Iraq with the IEDs that kill American 
soldiers everyday.
  As if all of that wasn't enough, he also ensures his country gives 
tens of millions of dollars a year to Hezbollah. That's the terrorist 
group that killed more Americans than any other before 9/11. Other 
signs of his intentions came from a recent interview where Iran's 
leader didn't deny having suicide bombers ready to strike the U.S. and 
Britain.
  His speech last week was that of a terrorist. That's what he and 
fellow members of the Legion of Doom are all about. They are committed 
to terrorizing those who want to be free, those who want democracy and 
those who wish to crush the very tyranny these men rely on.
  Make no mistake, when we are fighting a war on terror, we're fighting 
members of the Legion of Doom. That is just the way it is.

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