[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 7, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H7]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   PRESIDENT TRUMP UNITES FACTIONS IN IRAN AGAINST THE UNITED STATES

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, President Trump has demonstrated the 
limitation of his reality show, go-it-alone, incoherent approach, which 
helped him eke out an electoral college victory while losing the 
popular vote by 3 million votes, but is spectacularly ill-equipped to 
govern, let alone respond to a crisis that he has made worse.
  Maybe there was a reason that Bush and Obama didn't kill Soleimani 
when they could. Evidently, his advisors put General Soleimani's 
assassination on the list of options because they thought it was so 
outrageous they didn't think he would choose it.
  If you thought abandoning our Kurdish allies who helped us fight ISIS 
was a heartless disaster, now Trump has managed to unite factions in 
Iran against us, delaying reform for years, while pushing us to the 
brink of war and making it more likely that Iran develops nuclear 
weapons after Iran followed the nuclear agreement that the President 
broke.
  Reportedly, Iranian missiles are launched on Americans in bases that 
the Iraqi Parliament said we should abandon.
  Congress must act to rein in this reckless President.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.

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