is now calling for us to bomb iran. the liberals control everything. had i gotten past the gilligan's island yet? where was i? he is now calling for us to bomb iran and soon. and later, if you think the question and answer period is getting too timid, asking if waterboarding is torture. through his long political march to the right he's been puzzled that other jews did not come to the same conclusions that he did about liberalism in general, and the democratic party in particular. what liberals mean they see when they look at his country is in justice and operation of every kind, economic, social and political, mr. podhoretz wrote. by sharp contrast, conservatives see a nation shaped by a complex of traditions, principles and institutions that has afforded more freedom and even factoring in downturns, more prosperity to more of its citizens than in any society in human history. it follows that what liberals believe needs to be changed or discarded and apologize to do other nations, is precisely what conservatives are dedicated to preserving, reinvigorat

, put pressure on iran to back away from its nuclear bomb-making effort and in so doing, strengthen the safety of our country, the safety of israel and the rest of the region. i urge us to sthep iran refined petroleum sanctions act and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i would like to take the time to talk about the problems of media control in venezuela as ruled by hugo chavez. as we know, there's been a -- there was a new intelligence report that outlined the zeems of hugo chavez, the supposed president of venezuela, to control media and its a sign of further deterioration of freedom of expression, democracy, and human rights in venezuela under the chavez rule. he ratcheted up his rhetoric against free speech and against political opponents by shutting down broad cags stations across the country. these are assaults on the pillars of a democratic society and they -- they will continue unabated unless responsible nations stand up to chavez and send a clear message to him and others in the region that

iran is working on setting a bomb inside a missile column. and this week it was reported that iran has a plan to test a neutron initiator, a component that is used to trigger a nuclear bomb and has no possible civilian applications. as we stand here debating iran is making a nuclear bomb. the iran sanctions act will help in this. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? mr. fleming: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. fleming: mr. speaker, democrats in the senate are desperately looking for 60 votes for health care. so desperate that in a new report released last week, a chief actuary of medicare found that the reid-pelosi bill would cause many physicians to stop treating seniors because of $465 billion in cuts to the medicare programs. unfortunately, the medicare beneficiaries, the c.m.s. actuary, found that 20% of hospitals and nursing homes would go into the pred within the next 10 years -- red within the next 10 years. as if that were not enough, the reid bill would also cut paym

rejecting the deal, iran retains its full stock of low enriched uranium, enough to serve as the basis for one nuclear bomb and it forces the world to respond urgently. the bill before usoday is an important part of that response. it will take advantage of iran's considerable dependency on refined petroleum imports. it would sanction foreign companies that sell refined petroleum to iran or help iran with its own domestic refining capacity. dy depreviousing those companies of access to the united states market. and in to so doing we're asking no -- and in so doing we're asking no more of foreign companies than we do of firms. i believe the passage and implementation of this act would have a powerful affect on the iran an economy. and i believe it would force unpalatable budgetary choices on the iranian regime, vastly increasing the domestic political cost of pursuing its nuclear program. that said, i want to reiterate that my overriding goal in moving forward with this legislation is to prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability. as we move toward a likely conference with the senate, most likely early next year, and as the administration continues its eff

to the beirut bombing of 1983 and to iran and iraq. there is a need for cohesive governing in that area of the world. my stance, personally, is that i would like to see us pullout completely. where it is recognized that this is clearly something that no one is ever going to solve after 5000 years of documented war and turmoil. how do we have the ego to actually think that we can control that area when our demo is to go in and pullout? host: ron, republican line. you are next. caller: no one looks at the real problems of afghanistan. they have a country that is separated by a language, and the worst part is the endemic taliban and al qaeda people in the border areas of pakistan. those people can go across that border on a donkey any time that they want. if you study what has been happening in afghanistan over the last few months, 80% of our troops have been killed by ied's. how will the president's stop that from going on? i mean, you have got to look at this and say how can you control a country that is basically corrupt? built on poppyseed being sold around the world with an unending supply of criminal tribes. there are an immense number of tribes with

to the beirut bombing of 1983 and to iran and iraq. there is a need for cohesive governing in that area of the world. my stance, personally, is that i would like to see us pullout completely. where it is recognized that this is clearly something that no one is ever going to solve after 5000 years of documented war and turmoil. how do we have the ego to actually think that we can control that area when our demo is to go in and pullout? host: ron, republican line. you are next. caller: no one looks at the real problems of afghanistan. they have a country that is separated by a language, and the worst part is the endemic taliban and al qaeda people in the border areas of pakistan. those people can go across that border on a donkey any time that they want. if you study what has been happening in afghanistan over the last few months, 80% of our troops have been killed by ied's. how will the president's stop that from going on? i mean, you have got to look at this and say how can you control a country that is basically corrupt? built on poppyseed being sold around the world with an unending supply of criminal tribes. there are an immense number of tribes with

national intelligence estimate on iran that concluded that there wasn't much evidence that they were trying to build a bomb, at least in 2005. that to me is how a model should be used he confronted the logic. he confronted the evidence that it led to. he argued with it. he thought about it. he came to the conclusion that maybe there was some real merit in that position, and it was different from the position he had staked out, and he had adjusted. he had lots of other into. i am taking no credit here. i am stating that that's the way to use analytics to good in the world to force people to think through, how did you arrive at that decision because i can show you exactly how this model arrived at its applications from the logic. sometimes it gets people to change their view. >> as a follow on to your comment about working for the government, the question is can you tell us how game theory can be useful to an intelligence agency? are they efficient for personnel recruitment? >> so this is a really interesting question. i'm at the moment on a committee of the national academy of sciences that was requested by the intelligence community to try to think about how to bri