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Are We Safer Now Than 4 Years Ago?

Date: Sept. 8, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs


ARE WE SAFER NOW THAN 4 YEARS AGO? -- (House of Representatives - September 08, 2004)

(Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, are we safer now than we were 4 years ago? We have spent billions and 1,000 of our best have died in Iraq. But spending blood and treasure without wisdom will not necessarily make us safer. And while we have as a unified Nation dealt with al Qaeda and Afghanistan, we have ignored the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea. Our policy toward those two greatest threats has been "hear no evil, see no evil."

The administration's idea on how to make us safe from those nuclear weapons as to North Korea is to beg and as to Iran is to beg the Europeans to beg on our behalf.

The Bush administration refuses to use economic sanctions on Iran and those who subsidize North Korea because they do not want to inconvenience corporate America. Our invasion of Iraq is as if in the wake of Pearl Harbor we invaded Fascist Spain while ignoring Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.

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