The Clinton administration and Liberals are impotent. Read these quotes and then the Speech By Newt Gingrich from 1996, This is proof that Newt has been speaking and thinking about these problems for a long time.
This man has forethought and a clear vision of the enemy before us. ELECT Newt Gingrich 08.
Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said that if Iraq is found to be behind the attack, “we should resolve explicitly and formally to drive Saddam Hussein out of power.”
The Record
May 10, 1993; MONDAY
US officials are calling for a go-slow policy with North Korea, a move that critics say reflects a lack of resolve by the Clinton administration. Congressman Newt Gingrich, the Republican minority whip, said decisions Washington makes today could very well decide whether the West will be threatened by nuclear terrorism over the next decade.
“Frankly, we need a debate over countries like North Korea and Iran and what we are going to do,” he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last week in Washington. “Are we prepared to lose one or two cities before we decide to act?”
The Jerusalem Post
March 25, 1994, Friday
Speaking to a conference of military and intelligence officers, Gingrich said he has yet to see a coherent strategy for fighting Islamic totalitarianism and which “ultimately is designed to force the replacement of the current regime in Iran, which is the only long range solution that makes any sense.”
AP
February 8, 1995, Wednesday, AM cycle
Gingrich Replacement of Iranian Regime Best Course for U.S.
By John Diamond
Rep. Newt Gingrich stated in a recent interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaret– (Jan. 8): “I believe that these two challenges — Islamic totalitarianism and Iranian dictatorship and the danger of nuclear weapons in Iranian hands are the single biggest near-term national security problem. I put that at the top of the list; it’s a problem that the United States should be working to solve.”
Testimony of Neal M. Sher, Executive Director American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) Before The House International Affairs Committee quoting Gingrich
April 5, 1995
“But the objective fact of the future is that the primary dangers of terrorism on the planet are essentially those of Islamic extremism and particularly those financed and abetted by the Iranian government,” Gingrich told the pro-Israel lobbying group.
The Record
May 10, 1995
Gingrich: Main Terrorist Threat Still From Iran
“We are, in fact, entering the age of terrorism,” Gingrich said. “We’ve had this fantasy since the fall of the Berlin Wall that the age of freedom has arrived.” Terrorism means more than bombs set off by shadowy groups, Gingrich said, but can extend to states threatening neighbors.
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA)
March 7, 1996, Thursday
National/World National briefs
Speaker Newt Gingrich said today that the CIA under John Deutch has not anticipated terrorist threats very well. Gingrich told CNN that Deutch “is not doing a very good job anticipating the future” as far as threats to the US involving potential terrorism. Gingrich also said the Clinton Administration has had a very poor record on terrorism.
The White House Bulletin
July 25, 1996, Thursday
Gingrich attacks CIA chief over terrorism
NEWT GINGRICH: But the deeper point- USA Today, yesterday, had a very exhaustive report indicating that there are 11 training camps in Iran, with maybe as many as 5,000 people being trained for terrorism. Now, I don’t think that the international community has to tolerate a country operating training camps for terrorism. I think that we should jointly, on a world basis, indicate to Iran that they have to close those camps down. We’re not going to tolerate the indirect waging of war by using terrorists by a government. I think that’s just not acceptable behavior.
WOLF BLITZER: Well, when you say that the world can’t tolerate that, what would you recommend that President Clinton consider doing in order to shut those camps down?
NEWT GINGRICH: Well, I think that ideally we would go to the United Nations, present the evidence indicating these are terrorist camps, insist that there be international inspectors to close down the camps. If the Iranians refuse to close them down, I think that there are a number of military means capable of closing them down. I think that we should make them untenable. But the idea that we are going to sit around and allow - as the report indicated yesterday - maybe as many as 5,000 people at one time to be trained into terrorism, and then we’re going to spend enormous resources chasing individual terrorists after they’ve been trained, I think is exactly the wrong way to approach this. If Iran is sponsoring international terrorism, we should bring pressure to bear to force Iran to stop and, if necessary, we should strip Iran of the capability of doing it.
CNN Inside Politics 4:30 pm ET
August 3, 1996
ALLEN: We are interrupting that story because we have now on the phone with us Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Speaker Gingrich, your reaction to the U.S. attacks today on Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network.
REP. NEWT GINGRICH (R), HOUSE SPEAKER: Well, I think the United States did exactly the right thing. We cannot allow a terrorist group to attack American embassies and do nothing. And I think we have to recognize that we are now committed to engaging this organization and breaking it apart and doing whatever we have to suppress it, because we cannot afford to have people who think that they can kill Americans without any consequence. So this was the right thing to do.
We have not yet gotten assessments of the damage, but I hope that it’s been very decisive. And I think it’s very important that we send a signal to countries like Sudan and Afghanistan that if you house a terrorist, you become a target. And if you want to get rid of the target, you’ve got to get rid of the terrorist.
Gingrich response to US Strikes against Osama bin Laden’s network
CNN BREAKING NEWS 13:45 pm ET
August 20, 1998; Thursday 1:45 pm Eastern Time
. . . terrorism is a much more profound threat than we have responded to. It should trouble every American that we’ve been trying to get bin Laden since 1993. You just mentioned the cost of repairing an American warship damaged by terrorists. We should all be concerned that we don’t have the intelligence to know where they are, the ability to preempt, or the capacity to punish. And in fact, we have people who routinely go around the world holding press conferences explaining they’re at war with the United States.
Gingrich Testimony to The House Armed Services Committee on U.S. National Security
Chaired By: Representative Bob Stump (R-Az)
March 21, 2001 (25 Weeks before September 11)
Read his speech that Newt delivered on September 18, 1996 that gets to the heart of how Clinton was mishandling our foreign policy principally by treating terroris as a criminal and not a military matter and systematically cutting our intel and military capabilities.
