House Proceeding 12-15-09 on Dec 15th, 2009 :: 2:25:50 to 2:31:30
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2:25:46 to 2:26:06( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival, end quote. for our survival and for that of our friend and ally, israel, render your this legislation. mr. speaker, i balance of my time.

2:25:50 to 2:31:30( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Ron Paul

2:26:07 to 2:26:28( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from texas, ron p mr. paul: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the chairman stas that the prevent the iranians fr getting a nuclear weapon. that isn't even as a powerful statement as was made that

2:26:29 to 2:26:49( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: enticed us into the iraq war. it was to claim this they already had them. now, this is a pretense and yet here we are taking these drastic steps. my reason for opposing this bill, i think it's detrimental to our national security. it do

2:26:50 to 2:27:11( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: i oppose to it. in the late 1930's and early 1940's, the american people did not want to go into war. but there were some that were they wrused the argument that you needed -- used the argument that you needed an event. in june of 1941, sanctions were put against japan incidentally

2:27:12 to 2:27:32( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: and ironically prohibit oil products from going into japan. within six months there was the bombing of pearl harbor. and there are now talks -- there has been talk in the media and we heard about it, we need to bomb iran. and t hear. the sanctions are a use of

2:27:33 to 2:27:53( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: force. this is just not modest. this is very serious. and the way this is written it could very literally end up with a blockade. it could try to punish our friends and cut off trade. and this cannot help us in any way. we'd like to help the dissidents.

2:27:54 to 2:28:15( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: overthrow their government. but hardly should we c.i.a. with u.s.-funded programs going in there with a policy of regime change. they know these kind of things happen. we've been involved in this business in iran since 1953. and it doesn't serve us well. it backfires on us. it comes back to haunt us.

2:28:16 to 2:28:36( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: one of the goals explicitly expressed by al qaeda and their leaders has been they would like to draw us into the middle east because it would cos lot of money and it could hurt us financially. and the second reason they wanted us over there is to get us bogged down in an endless war. and for the last decade that is what we've been doing.

2:28:37 to 2:28:58( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: we are bogged down to the point we're very discouraging to the american people, very frustrating, no signs of victory, no signs of peace but we're bogged down. these were precise goals o al qaeda leadership. and, also, one of the purposes of enticing us over there and being involved is to give a

2:28:59 to 2:29:23( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: greater incentive to recruit those individuals who become violent against us. and this has been unbelievably successful. so we've been involved in iraq. we've been involved in afghanistan. we're bombing pakistan. and almost this is like another bonus for those who want us to be attacked is that we are over

2:29:24 to 2:29:45( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: there and just fermenting this anger and hatred toward us. not in our best interest. it actually hurts us. on to something like using force and prevent in means that we have given up on diplomacy.

2:29:46 to 2:30:06( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: diplomacy is out the window. and they're not capable of attacking us. the idea that they are on the verge of a bomb, you know, our c.i.a. said they have been working on it since 2003. and the other thing is if you want to give them an incentive to have a bomb, just keep pestering them like this, just

2:30:07 to 2:30:27( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: intimidate them, provoke it. this is provocative. they might have a greater incentive than ever. they can't even make enough gasoline for themselves. i mean, they are not a threat. they don't anything. they don't have a navy. they don't have intercontinental ballistic missiles. so it' not a threat to our

2:30:28 to 2:30:49( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: national i see our threat to our national security with this type of policy which could come and backfire and hurt us. i want to read number 5 in the bill. that particular item, because it makes my case rather than making the case for those who want the sanctions, i think this literally makes my case.

2:30:50 to 2:31:10( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: number 5 said on october 7, 2008, then senator obama stated, iran right now imports gasoline even though it's an oil producer because its oil infrastructure has broken down. if we can prevent them from import they need and the refined petroleum products that starts changing their cost benefit

2:31:11 to 2:31:30( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: analysis, that starts putting the squeeze on them. the squeeze on whom? on the people. pele against us. if we want to encourage true dissent and overthrow that government, which is more