[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17640-17641]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ARE WE SAFER NOW THAN 4 YEARS AGO?

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, are we safer now than we were 4 years ago? 
We have spent billions and 1,000 of our best have died in Iraq. But 
spending blood and treasure without wisdom will not necessarily make us 
safer. And while we have as a unified Nation dealt with al Qaeda and 
Afghanistan, we have ignored the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and 
North Korea. Our policy toward those two greatest threats has been 
``hear no evil, see no evil.''

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  The administration's idea on how to make us safe from those nuclear 
weapons as to North Korea is to beg and as to Iran is to beg the 
Europeans to beg on our behalf.
  The Bush administration refuses to use economic sanctions on Iran and 
those who subsidize North Korea because they do not want to 
inconvenience corporate America. Our invasion of Iraq is as if in the 
wake of Pearl Harbor we invaded Fascist Spain while ignoring Imperial 
Japan and Nazi Germany.

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