[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6922]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       WHOSE SIDE IS PAKISTAN ON?

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, after years of funneling money to 
Pakistan, we still don't know whose side they are on in this war on 
terror.
  We have given Pakistan $12 billion in foreign aid since 2002. We have 
reimbursed them $9 billion for their military operations in the war on 
terror. It's time we freeze the foreign aid to Pakistan until we get 
some answers about their knowledge of bin Laden's whereabouts.
  We cannot continue to give Pakistan money in the hopes they will be 
our friend and ally. We did not trust them enough to give them advance 
notice of the bin Laden operation. We even had detailed plans to fight 
the Pakistanis if they interfered with the capture of bin Laden.
  Bin Laden was able to live in a mansion right under the nose of the 
Pakistan military academy for years, but government officials say they 
didn't know where bin Laden was. That statement defies the evidence, 
and that ``dog just won't hunt.''
  And that's just the way it is.

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