[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16215]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                GENERAL OF GENOCIDE--MAHMOUD AHMADENIJAD

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                              HON. TED POE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, June 18, 2007

  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, ``genocide'' is a fancy term for state-
sponsored murder or extermination of a group of people. And that is 
exactly what President Ahmadenijad of Iran is trying to incite against 
the state of Israel.
  The president of Iran has a one-size-fits-all foreign policy. His 
response, Madam Speaker, to all conflicts in the Middle East is to 
``get rid of Israel.''
  Ironically, while claiming that the Holocaust never happened, 
Ahmadenijad regularly pontificates on goals that could easily have been 
taken right out of the Nazi playbook of the 1930s and 40s.
  ``The real cure,'' he has said, ``for the (Lebanon) conflict is 
elimination of the Zionist regime.''
  And not only does he propose the ``elimination'' of the entire state 
of Israel, he definitively predicts that end. Israel, he said, ``will 
be gone, definitely.'' And, Madam Speaker, he predicts revenge against 
the West for standing by its greatest ally in the Middle East, saying 
that we ``will not see any result but the hatred of the people.''
  Well, it should come as no surprise to the devil of the desert, Mr. 
Ahmadenijad, that the United States will not leave one of its greatest 
allies alone in the desert. We in America have the courage, Madam 
Speaker, to call Ahmadenijad a threat to world peace and an outlaw to 
Israel.
  I believe in the freedom of speech, Madam Speaker. It is one of the 
foundations of democracy. But speech by a head of state that urges the 
annihilation of an entire nation mocks and dishonors the very notion of 
free speech, and it is the prelude to open aggression.
  And that is why I have cosponsored this resolution calling on the 
U.N. Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad 
with violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. He must be held 
accountable for his actions.
  That's just the way it is.

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