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Condemning Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Threats Against Israel

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: Oct. 28, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs


CONDEMNING IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD'S THREATS AGAINST ISRAEL -- (House of Representatives - October 28, 2005)

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Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) for this opportunity to speak.

Mr. Speaker, Emily Dickenson said that ``a word is dead when it is said some say. I say it just begins to live that day.''

These words of hate are taking on life, Mr. Speaker. These words of hate are a clarion call to us to take affirmative action to make sure that this president is never armed with nuclear weapons. This president with these words of hate could create a nuclear holocaust, an inferno if you will, unlike which even the mind of Dante could imagine.

We must not allow these words of hate to go unchallenged. This is why I rise today. I rise because I support the resolution. I believe that this is the appropriate action for us to take as a first step.

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