House Proceeding 12-15-09 on Dec 15th, 2009 :: 3:01:05 to 3:03:15
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Ron Paul: to grant, to use or to withhold this particular sanction. but to have the capability to use diplomacy in a stroer way. i urge all of my colleagues to support th petroleum sanctions act. with that i of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Speech By: Ron Paul

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Ron Paul: gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, representative paul. the speaker pro tempore: the minutes. mr. paul: i talked to somebody today that would be voting for these but admitted that they won't work in its mere symbolism. already they tonight think these will do much good even

3:01:29 to 3:01:49( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Paul: those who will vote for it. very possible to enforce is one reason, and it will create a black market. and these particular sanctions are most difficult to enforce just because of the nature of the way it's written. one must understand a little bit about the pressure that's put on this country to act in a defensive way. they happen to be surrounded by

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Ron Paul: a lot of nuclear bombs. and they don't have a history. the iranians, as bad as they are for their leadership and how bad their regime is, they're not expansion is territorially. how many since they invaded another country for the purpose of taking over another country? it's just not in recent history

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Ron Paul: at all. but the countries around them, india. india has nuclear weapons. china has nuclear weapons. pakistan, israel. china, the ited states. they're all around them. i'm sure they feel like a cornered rat. but what i see here is propaganda. ppaganda to build fear into

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Ron Paul: people, to prepare the people for what is likely to happen like in the 1990's, fear of weapons of mass destruction. well, someday they might get a weapon of mass destruion, and unfortunately i am just really concerne lead to hostilities because this is the initiation. the fear is building up.

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Ron Paul: so too often in this case -- and we talk of peace at the same time that we pursue war we pursue war and we use these efforts to push our policies on others. and quite frankly we don't have any more money to pursue this policy, whether it's used by