Resolution, to Remove United States Armed Forces From Hostilities with Iran
Floor Speech
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Mr. SELF. Mr. Speaker, I will address a couple of things that my esteemed colleague across the aisle talked about. Gas prices, do you want to go back to the gas prices under Joe Biden? I think not.
As long as we are talking about 13 dead servicemembers, I want to remind you of how often our colleagues across the aisle refuse to talk about the 13 servicemembers who died in the most disastrous, the most despicable operation in U.S. military history at Abbey Gate. They refuse to talk about and refuse to recognize the 13 dead then.
As long as we are talking about this operation, we tend to forget that President Obama attacked Libya for 7 months, with no authorization from Congress--7 months, with no authorization from Congress.
I have a question for my colleagues across the aisle: Why do you hate U.S. success so much? How can you do that? How can you hate the success that we have had strategically in the last couple of months?
We now control the Venezuelan oil, much of which went to China. We now have cut off the Strait of Hormuz, where much of the oil that went through the Strait of Hormuz went to China. We have done it with no boots on the ground.
There are three priorities of the regime in Iran. One is regime survival. Two is their nuclear program. Three used to be--although it is no longer, because they don't have any proxies left to speak of.
We have taken out their proxies. We have destroyed much of their nuclear program. If we can get the 60 percent uranium, get it under our control, it would be very beneficial, but they no longer have the machines or the people to enrich it to 90 percent, which is weapon- grade uranium.
You asked what we have accomplished in this war. We have neutered Iran, which has been at war with us for 47 years. What have we accomplished? We have accomplished quite a bit.
I ask my colleagues, again, how can you hate U.S. success so much? I have been deployed on three continents with the United States Army, and I will tell you the support of the American people is what sustained you when you are deployed overseas.
I implore my colleagues across the aisle to support our troops who are in harm's way.
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