[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14780-14781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, for several generations now we have 
watched Middle Eastern-born terrorism intimidate, maim and kill 
Americans and our allies around the free world.

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  The images coming out of Israel and Lebanon are a sad, ugly replay of 
something we have seen far too often. Mr. Speaker, there is no easy 
solution to this problem, despite what some pundits on the talk show 
circuit would tell us. This is a fight between a nation and between 
terrorists who claim no nation.
  It is simply unacceptable that Iran would be permitted to fund a 
terrorist organization like Hezbollah. It is unacceptable that the 
state-sponsored terrorist organization would be placed in another 
nation, Lebanon, in order to wage a steady war against one of our 
allies. That is what has been happening for far too long.
  Mr. Speaker, our President is exactly right not to condemn Israel for 
taking actions to defeat its terrorist enemy.

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