House Proceeding 09-25-09 on Sep 25th, 2009 :: 0:39:25 to 0:43:50
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Trent Franks: mr. schiff. mr. franks. the gentleman is rognized for five minutes. mr. franks: mr. speaker, i stood on this floor about three years ago and called upon the united states to clearly define

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Speech By: Trent Franks

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Trent Franks: its position toward what is now the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, the islamic republic of iran. i then called upon the iaea to refer iran to the security council because i believed then that western intelligence has long suspected about iran and

0:39:53 to 0:40:14( Edit History Discussion )

Trent Franks: what it seems that president obama is just now beginning to realize that iran is systematically pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. the finding that they have a second nuclear center should

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Trent Franks: remove all surprise in from this announcement. they reveal iran has been covertly operating and developing a new underground uranium enrichment facility. it is disgraceful that today's announcement comes only a week after announcing our abandonment of the missile

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Trent Franks: defense site that could have protected the homeland of the united states from long-range missiles and only one day after president obama chaired a united nations security council specifically addressing the need to halt the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world. unbelievably, the resolution passed by the security council omitted any mention whatsoever

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Trent Franks: of either north korea or iran. but regardless of the security council's failure to explicitly address the real and present danger that the peace-loving world faces because of iran's nuclear ambition the fact is, iran has already disregarded three previous rounds of security council anxiouses -- sanctions and continued to

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Trent Franks: aggressively pursue a nuclear weapons capability, including building this underground facility and testing missiles that could be used to deliver a nuclear payload. we've reached a crossroads with iran that will result in one of two outcome, either they become a nuclear power that proliferates nuclear and

0:41:41 to 0:42:01( Edit History Discussion )

Trent Franks: misile technology to terrorists throughout the world and threatens the very existence of countries like israel, or by the world's inaction, we place the tiny country of israel in the unvoidable position of having to act unilaterally with military force to protect themselves and humanity from the threat iran would represent

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Trent Franks: to the entire civilized world. we must not place israel in that position, mr. speaker. president obama's announcement today also offered no assurance toward the fact that a weaker statement, and in fact it was a weaker statement than the statement given by the prime minister brown and president sarkozy who said we live in the real world, not the virtual

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Trent Franks: world and that the real world requires leaders to make decisions to act. with its languishing economy and centuries worth of natural gas reserve, iran's claim that it seeks nuclear capability solely for peaceful purposes is ridiculous beyond my ability to express. it is now open knowledge that

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Trent Franks: for years north korea gave false overtures while holding every deliberate intention to continue its covert development of a nuclear program. we're lying to ourselves and to the people that similar overtures if made from iran will be any less disingenuous. and the implications for our children and our future generations are profoundly

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Trent Franks: significant, mr. speaker. the world must act. as one former israeli ambassador puit, the game is over. iran is no longer progressing but has now reachinghe end game of diplomatic relations. mr. speaker, i am in favor of every sanction and diplomatic effort possible to prevent iran

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Trent Franks: from gaing nuear capabilities. however, i'm convinced that onl from becoming a nuclear armed nation and prolifering nuclear terrorism in the future. it will either be a direct military intervention from america or other nations or the absolute conviction in the minds of the iranian regime

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Trent Franks: that will occur if they march toward gaining nuclear weapons