[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 410-411]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        IRAN IS THE WORLD THREAT

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, Israel and Hamas are at war. But 
make no mistake about it, it's the little fellow from Iran, Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad, and his radical religious cronies of hate that are the 
ones that are behind this troubling turmoil in the lands of the Middle 
East.
  For years Iran has supported the twin tribes of terror, Hamas and 
Hezbollah, by supplying arms and equipment and training. In 2006 Iran 
used the hired guns of Hezbollah in Lebanon to war with Israel.
  Hamas has proudly proclaimed that it's had its soldiers of terror 
trained in Iran. Now Hamas is firing long-range

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Iranian missiles from Gaza into civilian areas of Israel. And the 
bandit group, Hezbollah, is getting blamed for new missile attacks into 
northern Israel.
  As the nations of the world, especially Egypt, attempt to broker a 
cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, they would do well to deal with 
the real culprit in this war, Iran.
  Until the world recognizes that President Ahmadinejad is determined 
to destroy Israel by any means necessary, there will never be peace in 
the Middle East. Iran has made its intentions clear to the world. World 
leaders need to make it clear to Iran that murder in the name of hate, 
will not be tolerated on the world stage.
  And that's just the way it is.

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