[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2954]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE IRANIAN DUCK

  (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, Iran continues to inch closer to 
making its nuclear ambitions a reality.
  The administration wants Israel to give diplomacy more time, but 
Prime Minister Netanyahu said, ``pressure on Iran is growing, but time 
is growing short.''
  For Israel, a nuclear armed Iran threatens its very existence. 
Ahmadinejad says he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, and 
this radical extremist means what he says.
  Israel will do what it has to in order to be master of its own faith, 
with or without the United States. Unfortunately, the days of full 
trust between the U.S. and Israel seem to be on shaky ground.
  Netanyahu said:

       I will never let my people live in the shadow of 
     annihilation.
       If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like 
     a duck, it's a duck. But this duck is a nuclear duck, and 
     it's time the world started calling a duck a duck.

  Mr. Speaker, America must totally get behind our friend and let the 
Iranian duck know whose side we are on.
  And that's just the way it is.

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