Pataki: As President, I Won’t Block Israeli Military Action Against Iran
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
HALPERIN: “Would president Pataki say if Israel said we would like to make a military strike against the Iran nuclear program?”
PATAKI: “I think Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, period. Flat out. And if the only way to do that were military action whether it was by Israelis or others, I would not stand in the way of that happening. You know, mark, I can't believe that how many years it is, 60 years after the holocaust, 70 years after the holocaust. Hitler said we're going to zroit Jews. It's political rhetoric. Germans are a civilized people. That's never going to happen. Now you have Iran saying we're going to destroy Israel. We're going to burn it to a crisp. And we're in the proservice giving them a path to a nuclear weapon. People are saying oh, it's political rhetoric. Oh, the Iranian people are good people. We can never forget that lesson of the holocaust. I will never forget the lesson of September 11th, radical Islam wanted to destroy Israel. They wanted to destroy us. And whatever it takes to prevent Israel -- Iran from having a nuclear weapon, I will support that action.”
BRZEZINSKI: “But this deal does for now.”
PATAKI: “The deal does is empower the number one sponsor of state terror with hundreds of billions of dollars of funds that they're going to use to expand their terrorist activities. We get a paper saying that if they obey the paper, they will not have nuclear weapons for a period of time. Well, we had seven U.N. Resolutions saying they could not have a nuclear program at all. And they ignored it.
BRZEZINSKI: “So you're saying we should act militarily."
PATAKI: “If we have to. If we have to take military action, whatever it takes to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, the civilized world must take. Hopefully the Iranians will come to their senses. This administration will come to its senses. Congress will reject this deal. We can avoid that confrontation. I don't think anybody sitting here, I don't think anybody in America looks forward to any sort of military action at all. “
