[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 5947-5948]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       IRAN IS A TERRORIST STATE

  (Mr. BURTON Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, Iran, as my colleague leaves the 
floor, is a terrorist state. They are trying to develop nuclear 
weapons, and the world and the United States cannot tolerate that. We 
will rue the day if we allow them to go forward with their nuclear 
weapons program. We will try diplomatic means, we will try economic 
sanctions, we will try anything to stop them; but we cannot allow them 
to build a nuclear capability, because they are a known terrorist 
state, period.
  And I want to say one more thing about my colleague's comments about 
weapons of mass destruction not being found in Iraq. Many people 
thought that Iraq sent those weapons out of the country. Well, one of 
our special ops organizations in the last two or three days found 800 
canisters, 800 canisters, of chemical weapons, the type that was used 
to kill the Kurds, 10,000 women and children, Kurdish children, during

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the regime of Saddam Hussein, and also the kinds of weapons that were 
used in the Iran-Iraq war.
  So saying there were no weapons of mass destruction, when we have 
actually found 800 canisters in just the last few days, proves that 
that is not correct.

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