[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             HAMAS IS THE PUPPET AND IRAN IS THE PUPPETEER

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the eyes of the world were on the Gaza 
Strip for 8 days as sirens wailed and Hamas rained rockets down on 
Israel.
  Iran's mullahs shipped long-range rockets into Sudan, sent them up 
into Egypt before smuggling them through tunnels and assembling them in 
Gaza. Israel responded by doing the only thing a responsible nation 
should do: it defended itself. Now the United States needs to show 
there are consequences for attacking this sovereign nation, 
consequences for Hamas and Iran, as well.
  We should have stricter enforcement of sanctions against Iran. Iran 
and Hamas both need to be held accountable for these attacks. Israel 
had the moral right and legal duty to defend itself from attacks by the 
barbarians, Hamas. There is a ceasefire, but only until Hamas obtains 
more Iranian missiles.
  Hamas is the puppet, and Iran is the puppeteer. The Iranian regime 
needs to go. The Iranian people need to rid themselves of the little 
fellow from the desert, Ahmadinejad, and his ways of war.
  And that's just the way it is.

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