Nato flooded libya with weapons. Uae, qatar, they flooded libya with weapons after gadhafi is gone, all his arm sachets, they were liberated. They went turkey into syria. Im not sure what the connection is between how, who, were watching, facilitating from the traffic but ill play one thing. We were more encouraging of it thathen we were stopping it, because why . Assad needed to go. And assad is an evil man, but we called the book the destruction of libya. At one point in time we talked about just keeping the lid on the garbage can. One of the things that mubarak, gadhafi i stole that from steve at fox news. I need to give him credit for that because i was, we were just talking before the show one morning, talking to him about libya and talking about what gadhafi did, he was still an evil man buddy list of keeping the radical jobs done. He said kind of like keeping a e lid on the garbage can. Mubarak, gadhafi and assad, they were imperfect but they kept the lid on the garbage can and
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to put these programs on autopilot. in other words, the united states chose, and it is the only country in the world that i can find, not to read the budget for these entitlement programs, so when you look around the world, other countries, even countries that have very generous programs have a budget for health care, for instance. the united states does not. we said eligibility and benefits guidelines and then write a check. social security is budgeted similarly. so we should not be surprised when the autopilot costs costs grow so rapidly. this is subject to forced annual appropriations, and that means that there is a debate, a spirited discussion as to what our priorities are, then at the end of the day our votes, and along with that is accountability. entitlements, the fastest- growing part of our budget, the costs or to make trade-offs among competing priorities a bipartisan coalition has endorsed putting social security, medicare, and medicaid on a long-term budget a
we are facing and bringing get back to the most essential element, and then she once again for the was very powerful remarks. we have with us a distinguished diplomat and ambassador who has led the cause of protecting the world from the terror of nuclear weapons. he has been united states special envoy for the nuclear proliferation under secretary for arms control and international security and has worked his whole life to coordinate the prevention and deterrence and defending the united states and the rest of the world from weapons of mass destruction. he is here today to talk to us about the fact that not only have the mek committee pmi bin an indispensable help to his effort in intelligence gathering on the nuclear program in iran, but he s here to talk about why he is in solidarity with the threat of terrorism posed by iran not only on the camp ashraf, but on all people of the world. let s give a great round of applause to the investor ronald joseph. [applause] thank yo