ANOTHER SOLUTION IN SYRIA; Congressional Record Vol. 159, No. 118

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ANOTHER SOLUTION IN SYRIA

(Mr. PITTENGER asked and was given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose the President's

action in Syria.

I just returned from the Middle East, meeting with heads of state in

Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and our ambassador to NATO. I'm

firmly convinced that any action on our part will further destabilize

Syria and cause a collapse of the government. What will happen then?

What will happen is that country will then fall in the hands of

Hezbollah, Hamas, al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

At the end of the day, what's important, Mr. Speaker, is who has

control of those weapons of mass destruction. While what Mr. Assad has

done has been barbaric and evil, we will never forgive ourselves for

the havoc that will be played upon this world if those weapons fall

into the hands of Islamic extremists. We need to work together

collectively to address the problem of identifying and finding those

weapons of mass destruction and securing those for the future.

There are many people who are living outside of their country now as

refugees. There are tens of thousands of able men who could be

recruited to be a part of that solution.

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