Posted on 03/14/2018 12:00:14 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
An Islamic paramilitary organization financed by Iran has infiltrated large swaths of South America, joined forces with drug cartels and created a major threat to Florida and the rest of the U.S., experts testified at a Congressional Field Hearing in Pensacola on Monday about Hezbollah’s gains in the Western Hemisphere.
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, moderated the hearing at the National Naval Aviation Museum. He said transcripts of the experts’ testimony would be provided to the U.S. House Armed Services and Judiciary committees.
“This hearing is about highlighting the importance of a stable Western Hemisphere and countering threats in our neighborhood,” Gaetz, a freshman congressman who is up for reelection this year, told a crowd of about 300 people gathered in the museum’s Blue Angels Atrium.
Gaetz and a panel of six elected officials from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties questioned three men with expertise in terrorism and narcotics trafficking in Latin America.
Gaetz, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump’s efforts to toughen immigration rules and build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, suggested conditioning aid to Latin America on countries ’efforts to fight terrorism.
Withholding funding is a guaranteed way to get the attention of countries that haven’t done enough to combat the threat, said Gaetz, who has also backed efforts to label Hezbollah as an international criminal and terror organization...
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I have long said Bush went to war with the wrong country in the middle east. Iran is the root of terror and trouble for much of the world. We could have had them long liberated by now.
He is my Congressman. I am still irritated by his attacks on “White Nationalists” which I still don’t know exactly what they are.
He has been OK otherwise.
The socialist-democrats, RINO’s, and globalist cuckservatives are more than willing to make this happen.
As long as they can consolidate power and make money off of it.
Hire Duterte as a consultant for this problem.
Obama was sending weapons to Hezballah and so far even President Trump has not cut off the aid ... we need to eliminate Hezballah and repossess the 100,000+ rocket bombs, missiles and its tanks and the rest of the dangerous weapons we and others have shipped, given that terrorist murder gang, it is VERY dangerous.
President Trump will never have enough years to undo Clinton, Bush and Obama unless their is an American miracle.
Paging General Mattis. General Mattis, please respond.
He hates Hezbollah.
I was wondering what would happen if the cartels and illegal immigrants became cozy with radical Islam. Seems like a Great Tribulation scenario.
SAY WHAT?
“Withholding funding is a guaranteed way to get the attention of countries that haven’t done enough to combat the threat, said Gaetz, who has also backed efforts to label Hezbollah as an international criminal and terror organization.”
Hezbollah kills unarmed Marines in Beirut and they are not terrorists?
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