So the reason I began the debate at that podium by reading a bunch of studies and historical examples

is because I know how easy it is to sell wars to a population that has been hearing for decades

that there's some country we are about

to attack or we want to attack who's so evil and is our enemy and we constantly

watch the government in the media being able to sell these wars to people by

getting them all pent up with fear-mongering and then fake promises

about how easy the war is going to be.

And that's why I started by reading how since 2005 everything you've heard tonight has been issuing from the Israeli government

in America's Israel supporters that oh Iran is months getting away from getting a nuclear weapon

if we don't strike them in the next two months it means they're absolutely going to

proliferate and none of that has ever happened. He says the agreement with Iran a

potential agreement with Iran is in the past it is in the past that's why we should learn from it. He who forgets history

is doomed to repeat its mistakes. Everything that I read you about the weapons inspectors,

about the agencies, about Western Europe all said the same thing

that when we integrated Iran back into the international community they opened up

their nuclear and sp- facilities let inspectors in and there was no progress being made toward

new core weapons because countries only seek nuclear weapons when they

feel threatened. That was the example I focused on so much because I knew

Professor Dershruhowitz were to lie on it so much, hold it up as the model that he

wants to show you. Oh look Israel struck the Iraqi facility in 1981, let's do it

again. The problem was as everything I've read

you demonstrated is that it was the striking of Iraq's nuclear facility in 1981 that led to this massive

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