And that was protected by granite.

They wanted it protected.

Granite's pretty good, but they wanted it protected by a lot deeper.

They wanted to go a lot deeper.

And they started the process while rapidly building conventional ballistic missiles.

They were going to do it all at the same time that threatened our overseas bases

and soon could have reached even our homeland.

The regime's intention was to use this exponentially growing ballistic missile threat to make it virtually impossible to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

So as you probably saw, they had a tremendous number of missiles, most of which are now

being used or destroyed and very unsuccessfully used because we have been able, for the most

part, to shoot them all down. What incredible technology, the Patriots have been unbelievable,

and other things. And the laser

technology that we have now is incredible. It's coming out pretty soon. We're literally lasers

will do the work of, at a lot less cost, do the work of what the Patriots are doing or what

other things are doing. The situation was very quickly approaching.

The point of no return in the United States

found it intolerable, in my opinion, based on what

Steve and Jared and Pete and others were telling me,

Marco was so involved, that I thought that they were going to attack us.

I thought they would, if we didn't do this at the time we did it, I think they had in mind

to attack us.

And if you notice they did something which was very foolish, very stupid, I would say.

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