[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14779-14780]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PREACH ON, MR. PRESIDENT

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, our President was caught on camera, on 
microphone, and off the cuff yesterday. He said: ``What they need to do 
is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (nonsense), and it's 
over.''
  He told Tony Blair he felt like telling U.N. Secretary General Kofi 
Annan to get on the phone with Syria's President and ``make something 
happen.'' After all, that's Annan's job.
  What he said was the truth. I am glad we got to hear his candor, his 
straight talk, his no nonsense analyzing the problem: Syria can stop 
this border war.
  He stated: ``Hezbollah is housed and encouraged by Syria and financed 
by Iran.''

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  Our President left out the politically correct niceties and cut to 
the chase.
  Mr. President, preach on, preach on. The blunt blazing truth without 
any fluff is what needs to be said. We know who is behind the attacks 
against Israel and we know who can stop it. It is time all people of 
the world hold the aggressive Hezbollah terrorist thugs accountable for 
starting this border war.
  And that's just the way it is.

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