Posted on 01/15/2015 8:54:44 AM PST by nuconvert
We suspected Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) would have a positive effect on the Senate. The veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan did not disappoint in a speech today at the Heritage Foundation.
He began with a simple reminder why we must oppose Iranian nuclear and territorial ambitions:
Iran is a radical, Islamist tyrannical regime. Upon coming to power, among its first actions was to invade sovereign American territory — our embassy in Tehran — and hold Americans hostage for over a year, an act of war for which it has never fully answered.
The Iranian constitution states that Iran’s Army and Revolutionary Guard “will be responsible … for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God’s way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world.” . . . . Iran has been killing Americans for over thirty-five years.
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This guy gets it.
I’d be happy if he were to give Caliph Barack and the Senate ‘Rats a twice weekly verbal beatdown based both on logic and the emotional arguments that they (and their voter-supporters) more likely understand.
Me too
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