[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 108 (Wednesday, July 21, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H5896]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             BAND PLAYS ON

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the band continues to play the same 
song, third or fourth verse, and that is the song of nuclear weapons in 
Iran.
  Now, is there anyone in the House of Representatives, Democratic, 
Republican, who believes that Iran has stopped its development of 
nuclear weapons? I think not. Is there anyone in this world who thinks 
that Iran has stopped its development of nuclear weapons? I think not.
  You know, they used the philosophy and the politics of delay, of 
promise, of hope to tell the world that really they are not really 
interested in nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the band continues to play 
the song of nuclear weapons coming from the desert and the tiny tyrant 
of the desert, Ahmadinejad.
  He is bent on the destruction of, first, Israel and then the West, 
and he is primarily concerned right now with destroying opposition in 
his own country. After all, he is an illegitimate officeholder and 
President of Iran. He rigged the elections, and so he took control. He 
killed his own people in the streets, and, Mr. Speaker, he is still at 
war with the Iranian people, those good folks in Iran who want to 
control their destiny and don't want it controlled by their dictator, 
the little tyrant in the desert.
  We as a Nation and as a world need to support the people of Iran to 
change their regime. Our quarrel is not with the people of Iran. Our 
quarrel is with the tiny tyrant in the desert who wants the nuclear 
destruction of Israel and the West.

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  And he has continued his attack on his own people in Camp Ashraf. 
Those Iranian folks that are in Camp Ashraf in Iraq that we as a Nation 
have promised to protect but because of our agreement with the Iraqi 
Government, Camp Grizzly, that organization or that camp we have in 
Iraq to protect the Iranians in Camp Ashraf, we have abandoned that 
Camp Grizzly. The United Nations assistance team has also left.
  So who is in charge of protecting the Iranians in Iraq? Certainly not 
the Iranian Government. They want them destroyed. After all, it was 
about a year ago when they encouraged the Iraqi Government to go into 
Camp Ashraf and they did. They killed 11 Iranians; 500 others were 
wounded. And now we hear media talk that the Iranian Government is 
working with the Iraqi Government to present warrants of arrest so the 
Iraqi Government will go back into Camp Ashraf and arrest those pro-
democracy Iranians that want to remove Ahmadinejad. We cannot allow 
that to happen. We must protect the people, the citizens of Camp 
Ashraf. It is our obligation, our moral duty as a Nation and as a world 
to make sure those dissidents remain protected and free.
  It is important to the world that we as a Nation understand the 
importance of Israel as our ally. Israel is surrounded by its enemies; 
it's surrounded by Hamas to the south, Hezbollah to the north. And you 
know what, Mr. Speaker? Iran is supplying weapons and money to 
Hezbollah in the north, Hamas in the south. You see, the little rogue 
dictator, the tiny tyrant of the desert, Ahmadinejad, is trying to have 
insurrection in Israel as well as in his own country.
  So, Mr. Speaker, the great hope for Iran, the great hope for the 
world is a regime change in Iran. And we need to be vigilant and 
supportive and watchful and make sure that we help in any way we can, 
at least verbally and politically, to support the good people of Iran 
to take control of their own country, to get rid of this illegitimate 
dictator that's trying to destroy not only Israel and the West, but his 
own country for some unfortunate reason.
  Mr. Speaker, regime change is the answer. A nuclear Iran is not a 
nuclear option.
  And that's just the way it is.

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